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and in a few days the eruption disappears. If the 

 sores on the teats are painful, a few applications of 

 glycerine and olive oil will assist the healing process. 



THE FOULS. 



Symptoms. — This disease is nearly allied to the 

 disorder called canker in the horse, and is manifested 

 by the discharge of foetid matter from the cleft of the 

 hoof, or, in some cases from one of the claws. 

 Veterinarians have divided this complaint into two 

 kinds, the soft fouls and the horny fouls, which are 

 differently treated by them. In the soft fouls, the 

 discharge issues from the cleft of the hoof, and also 

 from the heels, and in both cases the animal becomes 

 very lame. 



Causes. — Hard driving and long journeys often 

 produce the fouls, more particularly if the roads are 

 bad, and dirt lodges and dries in the cleft, or behind 

 the heels. It affects cattle of all ages. 



Remedies. — For the soft fouls, when cracks take 

 place, these must be well washed with soft-soap and 

 water, and then anointed with tar-ointment, and the 

 feet kept as dry as possible. When a distention of 

 the horny substance takes place, and soft, spongy 

 protrusions appear, accompanied with the discharge 

 of matter of a most offensive smell, these soft parts 

 must be cut, or scraped off, and a caustic liquid 

 applied to the parts. The following will prove 

 effectual if well applied : — 



Sulphate of copper . . , i ounce, 



Nitrous acid . » . . J ounce, 



Alum, pounded .... 2 ounces, 



Rain, or river water . . . i pint. 



When the parts are properly washed with the above, 



