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 (as soon as pent up in the foot) causes inflamma- 

 tion and suppuratiSn, and at last, forms an abscess, 

 at all times very difficult to heal, and which, when 

 large, takes off one or both hoofs, which are ntver 

 properhj replaced. It must, therefore, be consider- 

 ed as an object of the first importance to restore 

 the secretion and discharge, without allowing a 

 suppuration. This done, the cure is effected; and, 

 since the course has been followed, no bad case 

 has occurred in a very considerable stock of cat- 

 tle, and the men attending them are quitd familiar 

 with the cure. If, from want of attention, or the 

 violence of the attack, the gathering is formed, and 

 breaks, it must be treated like any other tedious 

 ulcer, and without any violent or harsh measures. 



The animal should be kept quiet, fed well, and 

 occasionally purged. As soon as the discharge 

 has ceased, a salve of the flower of zinc, and hog's 

 lard appears to be the best dressing* 



It cannot be too strongly impressed on the 

 minds of those who have the care of cattle that not 

 a moment is to be lost: and that the corrosive subli- 

 mate produces no other inconvenience than pain 

 for a few minutes, even if it should be applied in a 

 case of lameness, which afterwards proves to have 

 arisen from other causes. 



An account appeared last season, of the cure 

 being effected by cutting off the point of the hoof 

 with a chissel, till it bled considerably. Of the ef- 

 ficacy of this remedy, no opinion is given, as it has 

 never been tried here; but the impresseon is not fa- 

 vourable, as it must occasion temporary lameness, 

 and, in unskiful hands, proves something more 

 than temporary. 



All such barbarous modes of treatment as hai 

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