CHAP. V.] ACUTE AND CHRONIC : REMEDIES, 539 



and other symptoms, for according as these vary, 

 so must the remedies be changed. Draw the soles 

 a little with the buttress if found too thick, not 

 otherwise ; rasp the heels and quarters, which will 

 ease the pain occasioned by the binding of the hoof, 

 and give room for the action of the foot ; a fact that 

 may be ascertained by bending it at the pastern 3 

 forwards and backwards, before the operation, and 

 trying the same experiment afterwards. Apply a 

 bran poultice warm to the whole foot daily, but do 

 not add to it any greasy or oily substances, as is too 

 often practised. The sponge boot may be employed 

 with advantage, made large. After three or four 

 days, that the horn has somewhat recovered its former 

 consistency, put on the shoe gently, and walk the 

 patient, to try in how much he is now lame : and 

 if the attack has been a slight one, he may recover 

 with very little more treatment than a turn out in a 

 meadow will afford. Otherwise the feet must be 

 stopped, and kept moist and cool, as directed in 

 case of Canker at page 523. 



In all cases, (except where the foot is pumiced, 

 or the sole is very thin), the jointed shoe of B. 

 Clark, or of H. Goldfinch (page 501), will be found 

 serviceable, as being well calculated for giving play 

 or action to the parts of the foot, which produce the 

 secretion that is so salutary to the renovation of new 

 hoof; but which the symptomatic disorder we call 

 " binding of the hoof" has sadly perverted into an 

 offensive and harmful matter. 



The proper secretion of the juicy elastic sub- 

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