LAMENESS, FROM VARIOUS CAUSES. 351 



Treatment. — The principal objects to be accomplished are, to 

 keep the feet cool by frequent sponging with cold water; next, the 

 bowels must be kept loose my means of bran-mashes, or, if neces- 

 sary, a dose of Glauber salts — dose, twelve ounces, dissolved in a 

 pint of warm water, to which add half a gill of syrup — and an 

 occasional enema of soap-suds, and also a few doses of fluid extract 

 of gelseminum, say two drachms night and morning. This is the 

 kind of treatment that the author has found most successful dur- 

 ing a long period of practice. 



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EXTREMITY OP ONE OF THE FORB LIMB3. 



Explanation.— «, The region of the coronet; 6, The sensitive laminse; c, The point of the 

 toe ; d, The quarters ; e. The heel ; /, The sole ; g, The solar border. 



Many who treat such diseases are apt to do too much. Youatt, 

 and several other writers, recommend repeated bleedings, blisters, 

 and purges, and even tell us to bleed in the chronic stage. This 

 is all wrong, and such outrageous treatment is almost sure to end 

 in suppuration, founder, or ruin. (See article on Inflammation.) 

 The patient must be kept at rest, and, if he should lie down, must 

 not be disturbed. I never remove the shoes, because the patient 

 is in so much pain that he can not stand on the frog or sole, and 

 the shoes are a protection to the frog. 



