THE HORSE, ITS DISEASES. 



No. 197. Yt Ounce tallow, 



1 Ounce oil of turpentine, 



2 Ounces resin, 



4 Ounces beeswax. 



Melt together, and fill the crack with it quite warm, and let it cool. 

 The foot should be protected so no dirt can enter, and the horse turned 

 to pasture until a new hoof is grown, placing a bar shoe on the in- 

 jured hoof. 



If the crack is an older one, and there is inflammation, the edges must 

 be pared and the fissure sufficiently laid bare so it may be thoroughly 

 cleansed of all grit and dirt. The crack must then be thoroughly 

 fomented to reduce the inflammation, and poulticed until it assumes a 

 healthy appearance. The parts must then be brought firmly together by 

 means of clinch nails ; covered with ointment. No. 197 ; a bar shoe put 

 on, and a new hoof allowed to grow. 



XI. False Quarter. 



This difficulty differs materially from sand crack, inasmuch as it is a 

 deficiency in the growth of the horn of the hoof extending from the cor- 

 onet to the sole. It is a gap in the wall of the hoof rather than a crack. 



Causes. — ^It is produced from a deficient secretion of the horn making 

 power, owing to previous quittor, frostbite or other injury to the coronet. 



What to do. — The principal means to be used is careful shoeing with 

 a bar shoe. If the injury has been recent, stimulate the coronet with a 

 mild blister, or if there is a wound, cut the edges with a knife and dress 

 with weak carbolic acid water, to induce a healthy growth of horn. In 

 old cases, all that can be done is to fill the fissure with gutta percha, and 

 protect the weak hoof with a bar shoe. 



Xn. Quittor. 



Causes. — This fistulous condition of the fibrous cartilage of the foot-- 

 inflamed, suppurating, penetrated by canals in various directions, with 

 openings upon the quarters and heels of the coronet — is caused by pricks 

 in shoeing, by threads, by suppurating corns or bruises, by neglected 

 bad tread or over-reach, by neglected thrush, by irritation from sand- 

 crack and false-quarters, by bruised sole that sometimes takes place when 

 flat-footed horses are ridden over stony ground ; in short, b}'^ any injury 

 which leads to inflammation of the cartilage of the hoof and the forma- 

 tion of pus inside. When the sensitive portion of the foot is pierced by 

 a nail, or when inflammation has followed a bruise, suppuration speedily 



