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fact that all the callosities (ergots and chestnuts) seemed to 

 participate in the morbid process, and they, too, were covered 

 with a thin layer of soft cheesy horn. The animal used to 



Fig. 138.— Off Fore-foot affected with Specific Coronitis. 



bite at his coronets and also the callosities above the knees 

 and hoclis until they bled, which they did quite easily. The 

 owner would not go to the expense of having him treated, 

 so he was destroyed.* 



* Henry Taylor, Veteri7mry liccord, vol. xvii., p. 311. 



