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FALSE-QUARTER, SHELLY FOOT, SEEDY-TOE, SCRATCHES, THRUSH 

 OF THE FROG, AND CANKER OF THE SOLE. 



These morbid conditions of the foot of the horse, are the 

 products of perverted, or vitiated secretions, arising from par- 

 tial or total suspension of the secreting organs; the general 

 cause of which being an unduly contracted hoof, and the par- 

 ticular and proximate cause, direct pressure upon the organ or 

 organs more immediately involved. 



GENERAL ATROPHY OF THE FOOT 



is the result of the same general cause, acting more equally 

 over the whole of the foot, namely, morbid contraction, inter- 

 fering with the vital processes of development, of nutrition, or 

 of both. 



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ALL ACCIDENTAL AFFECTIONS OF THE FEET, SUCH AS TREADS, 



ERUISES, INJURIES FROM CALKING, QUITTORS, SUPPURATING 



CORNS, PICKING UP NAILS IN THE STREET, INJURIES 



FROM PRICKING, STABBING, CROWDING, ETC., 



IN SHOEING 



are all greatly aggravated and intensified by a morbidly con- 

 tracted condition of the horny structures, which is proved by 

 the fact, that softening and expanding those structures facil- 

 itates the healing process in all of them in a most remarkable 

 degree. 



CERTAIN CONSTITUTIONAL COMPLAINTS, AS TETANUS, PNEUMONIA, 



PLEURISY, GASTRITIS, ENTERITIS, GASTRO-ENTERITIS, 



AND SKIN AFFECTIONS. 



are known to have most important sympathetic and other re- 

 lations with the internal tissues of the foot. Again, light has 

 been thrown on these relations by the process of mechanical 

 dilation of the quarter, showing, that in a morbid contraction 

 of the horny textures lies the germ of many unsuspected mal- 

 adies of the horse. 



