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ATROPHY OF THE FOOT. DRY-ROT. 



CONTRACTION BOTH CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE. 



This is a condition of the foot of the horse occasionally met 

 with. The atrophied foot is usually perceptibly smaller than 

 the comparatively sound one. Such a foot is a " miserable 

 apology " for a foot, and is commonly accompanied by an atro- 

 phy of all the pectoral, shoulder, and brachial muscles, in con- 

 nection with the atrophied foot. Contraction is both a cause 

 and consequence of this state of things. Each has reacted in 

 the production of the other. It is not by any means an incur- 

 able condition. The same general principles as are applied to 

 contraction will remove atrophy of the foot when there is no 

 bar in the absolute disorganization of the foot-tissues. 



Giving the tissues room to expand and grow will restore the 

 lost functions of nutrition if any thing will. If expansion of 

 the foot will not effect this, nothing will. No treatment will 

 avail the muscles that move the leg if the foot is disordered. 

 Get the foot well, and developement of the muscular tissues 

 named will follow. It may, however, require months of judi- 

 cious exercise, and external stimulation, to restore them to their 

 normal capacity and action. 



ACCIDENTAL INJURIES TO THE CORONARY LIG- 

 AMENT FROM TREADS, BRUISES, CALKS, 



AND QUITTORS 



are most frequent in the winter when the necessity exists for 

 Sharp Calks to the shoes. They sometimes end favorably, and 

 at others become the most intractable of injuries, leading to 

 the destruction of the animal. Pain, lameness, and irritative 

 fever, are the usual accompaniments of these ailments. 



