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chance, length of time, and red -, which often 

 happens. 



I can however afifert that I never faw nor 

 heard of a horfe, put to hard labour, as draw- 

 ing heavy carriages, or carrying heavy burdens, 

 fracturing the coronary-bone. 



Observation XV. 



Strong comprenions are diftinguifhed by 

 pufhing the thumb upon the coronet, it makes 

 a horfe feel as fliarp a pain as if there was a 

 fracture ; in this cafe no time mud be loft be- 

 fore the fole is drawn. 



"When the comprefllon is not fo violent, as 

 that it cannot be thus known by the coronet, 

 it muft be examined in the foot, the horny fole 

 muft be pared until it becomes flexible under 

 the tool ; which muft be done as near the 

 frog as can be ; the tool muft be prefTed, 

 and if the horfe is fenfible of it in that place, 

 we may be aflured that there is a comprefllon of 

 the coronary-bone upon the nut- bone. The me- 

 thod of cure is to pare the fole to the quick, to 

 let him bleed at the point of the foot, and apply 

 a pledget with oil of turpentine to the bleeding ; 

 alfo an emollient pultife in the foot and round 

 the coronet. Above three fourths of thefe cafes 

 are cured without drawing the fole : but I pre- 

 fer bleeding in the upper part of the foot, in 

 expectation of the returning blood ; whereby 

 you will the better unload the part. 



Obser- 



