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mal may be allowed with advantage to remain in a recumbent 

 position as much as possible. After the fever and tenderness have 

 passed away, and the horse is able to stand and move about, a jet 

 or stream of cold water for half an hour at a stretch may with 

 advantage be allowed to play upon the feet, and this procedure 

 should be repeated twice a day. As soon as the temperature of 

 the body has gone back to 10 r degrees and the general febrile 

 symptoms have commenced to abate, recourse should be had to 

 the application of Arnica lotion, by hand-rubbing the coronets 

 therewith, and keeping the pasterns, coronets, and hoofs clothed 

 with some thick, soft material, which should be constantly sat- 

 urated with Arnica lotion; Arnica 3X should also be adminis- 

 tered internally three or four times a day, to favor the speedy reso- 

 lution of the exudate already referred to. Some weeks must be 

 allowed to elapse after convalescence before anj^ attempt is made 

 to put on the shoes, otherwise a 1 elapse will probably take place, 

 as the result of concussion which must be produced b}^ nailing on. 



Sandcracks, Seedy Toe and Corns usually call for some 

 surgical interference w-hich a layman could hardly be expected to 

 undertake; but thrush, which consists of the discharge of a foetid 

 fluid from an unhealthy frog can best be cured by application of 

 dry powdered Calomel and the internal administration of Arseni- 

 cum album 3x three times a day. 



Canker, or a diseased condition of the sensitive secretory 

 laminae of the sole, is a very intractible disorder that certainly de- 

 mands surgical interference, which only a competent veterinary 

 surgeon is capable of performing; by many it is considered an incura- 

 ble disease; but very recently Mr. Malcolm, of Birmingham, pub- 

 lished full particulars of a system of treatment which he had adopted 

 with marked success among the horses under his care; very satis- 

 factory confirmatory evidence having also been supplied by Mr. 

 Edwin Faulkner, of Manchester, of the success which has fol- 

 lowed his practice of this system; the details of this method 

 appeared in iho: Jozimal of Pathology and Therapeutics, published 

 by Professor Macfadyean, of the Royal Veterinar}' College, Lon- 

 don; it would, however, serve no useful purpose for us to occupy 

 space with describing the process, as the operation is entirely be- 

 yond the scope of an unprofessional man; if, however, the disease 

 be detected in the early stages, it may be arrested b}^ having the 



