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stance, for the formation of new hoof, being essential 

 to the restoration of the horse, and as the lameness 

 will not wholly subside unless this process goes on 

 healthily, resort must be had to blistering, provided 

 he still goes lame. This application should extend 

 from the coronet and quarters to the knee, and be 

 repeated, taking care to keep the heels open and 

 the sole stopped. The good effects to the sole that 

 will be found to result from blistering shows the 

 connexion or companionship that exists between the 

 legs and feet, as we took occasion to observe at a 

 former page. 



But, as to drawing the sole, as before recom- 

 mended generally, there is one exception : if the 

 lameness and other symptoms come on after an 

 inflammatory fever of the whole system, then we 

 ought to look upon it as an effect of the fever 

 seeking to throw off its dregs thus critically ; and 

 a swelling and discharge at the coronet may be 

 expected soon to take place that should be en- 

 couraged, and treated as simple abscess, not fistu- 

 lous. When this is the case, the bar-shoe is better 

 adapted to keep the parts in position, that the dis- 

 charge may proceed temperately. 



In default of sending the sick horse to a meadow, 

 he may be allowed to stand on a clay-made floor 

 in an outhouse by day, or any slip of soft ground ; 

 but by no means adopt the plan of putting the 

 patient upon litter that is damp, and therefore half 

 rotten and heating. A number of contrivances for 

 affording coolness and natural pressure to the sole 



