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TREATMENT OF THRUSH. 



Before I understood the importance of judicious Dilation, I 

 have seen bad cases of Thrush that were deemed incurable 

 and have known them to be destroyed on that account. Since 

 that time I have found every case of Thrush, however bad, that 

 I have met with, susceptible of an early and absolute cure by 

 that process alone, conjoined, of course, with poulticing. Dila- 

 lating the quarters will widen the space wherein the frog should 

 find an easy and roomy bed. Give a wasted or thrushy frog 

 room to develop itself and it will soon do so, and a plump 

 healthy-looking frog will soon be seen taking the place of the 

 puny, puckered up, putrid pest of the past. 



I cannot imagine an incurable case of Thrush if I have but 

 the means of softening and expanding the foot which is the 

 subject of it. Those who wish to employ medicable measures 

 will find the best known, in the Appendix. 



The Dilator and the poultice I regard as the radical remedy 

 for the present, and the positive preventive for the future. 



THE ALL-IMPORTANT ADJUNCT. 



A discharge from the cleft of the frog is not always a result 

 of Thrush. An accidental puncture or wound in that region, 

 from some other cause may be the origin of it. But whatever 

 may be the nature of the injury, there is no more useful adjunct 

 to be found in the removal of all diseased conditions of the 

 foot, than careful and circumspect dilation of the quarters. 



TREATMENT OF CANKER OR FOOT ROT. 



SOME CURES CONTRARY TO ALL EXPECTATION. 



Canker, for reasons already stated, is not so readily disposed 

 of as Thrush, especially in its worst forms and advanced stages. 

 Yet I have cured some cases that were so badly cankered that 

 I feared the whole foot would become detached, from the al- 

 most universal presence of the " leprous distillment," — the can- 



