252 DISEASES OF THE HORSE'S FOOT 



The laminae on one side and a small portion of the sensitive 

 sole, though not to any great extent, were lacerated. The 

 coffin-bone was not at all injured. The bleeding having 

 nearly ceased, she was put into slings, the foot carefully 

 washed with warm water, and immediately bound up with 

 pledgets of tow saturated with the simple tincture of myrrh 

 and tincture of opium, of equal parts. 



Fig. 114. — Hoof Torn from the Foot by Accident. 



' The dressing was ordered to be allowed to remain on all 

 night, and on the following morning to be removed. The 

 foot was then bathed, as before, in warm water, and the 

 application of the tinctures repeated night and morning. 

 The medicine internally given was castor oil, with tinct. 

 opium, and this, in a diminished dose, was ordered the 

 next morning. Blood was also abstracted from the jugular 



