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iiind or fore-leg entangled in a gate, and in 

 other such accidents. In these cases the lace- 

 ration and contusion are so considerable, that 

 the kind of union before mentioned is totally 

 impracticable : it is, notwithstanding, advisable 

 to keep the divided })arts together as well as 

 we can, taking care to allow the matter which 

 forms, to escape freely, and avoiding the 

 violent stimulating applications counnoniy 

 used bv farriers on s-ich occasions, which, to 

 say the best of them, always increase tlie in- 

 flammation and danger, and obstruct the 

 cure. I have seen a horse die in the oreatest 

 ai^onies, from a wound received in entano-hno' 

 the hind-leo- in a <j;ate, bv which not onh' the 

 skin and tiesh were excessive! v torn and bruised, 

 but the stifle-joint was also mucli injured, 

 in this case, the fatal event and the excessive 

 pain were undoubtedly accelerated and heigiit- 

 ened, if not ahogether occasioned, by the 

 caustic applications of the farrier enjpioved--. 



* A short time ago I was induced by respectable recom- 

 mendation to employ a practising farrier in our Veterinary 

 Infirmary as superintending groom, under an idea that he mif ht 

 be the more useful from being capable of applying poultices, 

 fomentations, giving balls, &c. — Though like his Vulcanian 

 brethren extremely ignorant, he appeared tractable and .desirous 

 <9f instruction ; untbitunately my plan of trusting in, some. 



