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killed by the moisture of the disease it was meant 

 to destroy. Bind up the foot until the following 

 day, when the application must be repeated, after 

 wiping away roughly the sloughing of the diseased 

 parts. 



As it is found of some importance to the cure, 

 that the foot should be kept as much as possible 

 from wet and filth, and seeing that the mode of 

 tying on a great bundle of tow in cloth, in the 

 manner commonly in vogue, often fails, a light shoe, 

 adapted to the present shape of the foot, should be 

 put on, for the purpose of sustaining the dressings, 

 &c. which it may be found necessary to apply. The 

 shoe has another advantage over the tying fashion, 

 inasmuch as it allows of the animal to place his 

 foot fairly on the ground, a position that mainly 

 conduces to the cure by promoting the secretions, 

 more especially when at length he can move about. 

 Let the shoe be narrow-webbed, with a groove on 

 the inside edge, so as to admit of a tin slider being 

 shoved in and drawn out, when you desire to ex- 

 amine the under surface of the foot, to change the 

 dressings, &c. Such a shoe will obviate the com- 

 plaints usually raised by our stable attendants, that 

 they cannot keep on the dressings, nor preserve the 

 foot from damp, which always retards the cure ; for 

 they are most of them bunglers at bandaging, 

 owing to the very little practice which falls to the 

 share of any one person among the whole frater- 

 nity. Splents of wood may supply the place of tin, 

 when this latter may not be at hand. 



