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quarter extended to within | inch of the coronet, and on 

 the inside quarter to within 2 inches of it. As the owner, 

 a farmer, had not proper convenience for Mr. Olver to treat 

 the case, the latter asked me, while visiting him, if I would 

 care to undertake the treatment, saying, at the time it would 

 be a very good test-case, as the disease was so far advanced. 

 I readily agreed, and, after the necessary arrangements, 

 had the horse removed to Birmingham on July 2. In this 

 case it w r as found necessary to cast the animal and cauterize 

 the foot a second time before a healthy granulating surface 

 was secured; but after this the progress towards recovery 

 was uninterrupted, although necessarily slow, on account 

 of the large amount of new secreting surface which had to 

 be formed. 



The horse was finally discharged, after inspection by 

 Mr. Olver, absolutely cured and free from canker, on 

 January 7. 



The illustration (Fig. 135, p. 312) is from a photograph, 

 and it gives a somewhat imperfect representation of the 

 state of the foot two months after it came under my 

 care. 



2. (Rose's Treatment.*) This was a bad case of canker, 

 which had been for two or three months treated in the 

 ordinary manner, with but little sign of ultimate success. 

 Commenced in June and carried on until the end of Sep- 

 tember, the ordinary treatment consisted in burning down 

 the fungus growth with the hot iron, and dressing with 

 copper sulphate, zinc sulphate, and boracic acid. The 

 cauterization was repeated every five days. 



The treatment of Lieutenant Rose was commenced at 

 about the end of September, at which date the disease 

 extended from the toe on one side of the foot right back 

 to the heel, involving the sole, half of the frog, and the 

 bulb of the heel. One week after treatment the diseased 

 surface was drier, and granulations were more healthy. 

 At the expiration of a fortnight the new horn had com- 

 menced to grow from the wall, and also from the frog. 



* Veterinary Record, vol. xi., p. 435. 



