enlightened practitioners will resort to 

 it under any conditions. True, there 

 are apparently a few forms — a very 

 few — of equine lameness that will yield 

 to no other form of treatment- Note, I 

 have said apparently there are some. 

 I believe, in fact, that any case of lame- 

 ness located in an articulation is cur- 

 able, if it is curable at all, by means 

 other than burning the area with a 

 red-hot iron. While most of us, in 

 practice, do fire cases of articulation 

 lameness, I believe that we do so for 

 the reason that frequently it is for us 

 the easiest way to terminate the con- 

 ditions connected with the case. And 

 I further believe that every time we 

 resort to the actual cautery, for the cor- 

 rection of a lameness in an articulation, 

 we admit, in the fact that we do so 

 resort, that we do not fully understand 



the condition we are attempting to cure. 

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