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taken as finally indicative of " strain in the shoul- 

 der," until the tbot has been examined, and the 

 shoeing-smith questioned as to his skill and care- 

 fulness. 



Cure. — If the injury be considerable, as when 

 the horse has been thrown down, he should be hied 

 at once, in the plate vein when it is local, but in 

 the neck when the injury has been more general. 

 A laxati\'€ ball, or a purgative, must follow as a 

 matter of course, proportioned to the actual state 

 of his body at the time. A fomentation of camo- 

 mile flowers, or of scalded bran should be appli- 

 ed largely and assiduously at the chest and inside 

 the elbow, and those remedies, with rest from all 

 labour and exercise, generally perfect the cure. 



Coi^is. 



Corns are a very frequent disease, and common 

 to all descriptions of horses. Those accustomed 

 to slow work are least liable to it. The hind feet 

 are generally not subject to the disease, although, 

 in some few instances, I have discovered them, 

 but not in a degree to produce the bad effects oc- 

 casioned by the disease in the fore feet 



Corns generally appear in the inner heels of the 

 fore feet, at the angle between the bars and the 

 crust. They seldom occur on the outside heels. 

 On removing the superfluous horn, corns show 

 themselves by reddish appearance; and on the re- 

 moval of more of the horn, they exiiibit the ap- 

 pearance of a bruise charged with blood, which 

 has made its way into the pores of the horn. This 

 appearance sometimes predominates in the direc- 

 tion of the bars, and sometimes between the crust 

 and the sole, (;iking the directiop. of tlie Inmina. — 



