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supported and improved by it, and it is observed they last longer than 

 others. The frogs often in such feet hang low, and are large and relaxed, 

 rottenness, crumbling, and decay of the hörn, and fissures, occur in these, 

 as also in other kinds of feet. In such cases, I have dressed the hörn 

 with the Oxymel Mruginis with excellent effect, applied with a brush,^ 

 thereby inducing a niore firm and healthy secretion of hörn. The Sulphat 

 of Zinc has also much the same efl^ects, dissolved in water, in the pro- 

 portiou of about two drams to an ounce, the foot being kept dry in 

 such cases. Washing with a water brush and water is also to be re- 

 commended ; and the fi-equent anointing with tar in wet situations. In 

 the growth of all feet, great attention should be paid to the Frog-Slay, as 

 its integrity is the sure guarantee froni Thrushes, or, if I niight venture 

 to restore again the old and proper English word, " Furskes." 



The Waved or ribbed Iloof. This kind of deformity of the hoof proceeds 

 froni want of proper stability or ftxedness in the Coffin-bone, which sinking 

 in the Hoof, rests with undueweight on the sole: the Frog-band, in these 

 cases, from its adherence to the skin is, in a remarkable manner, extended 

 or drawn over the upperedge of the hoof, thus distorting and disfiguring its 

 growth. Weakness from shoeing, sudden chills, or over exercise, usually 

 produce it: it is indeed a Partial Founder. 



The Incurvated Hoof. This name is given to an hoof that is beut 

 inwards in front, which arises sometimes from natural formation, or weak- 

 ness only ; at other times, I believe, froni the Coffin-bone in its descent, 

 dragging the hoof inwards along with it. Broad Shoes, and supporting 

 the Sole, in the manner in which I shall hereafter describe under Founder, 

 is the best remedy at present known to nie. 



The Foundered Foot. In the foundered foot, the connexion of the coffin 

 bone with the hoof is weakened, or they are entirely separated. The bone 

 descending presses upon the sole, reducing it from a coucave to a convex 

 form. A representation of a foot so circumstanced is seen in the annexed 

 Engraving. The bones, a, b, c, are, the Coronet, Coffin, and Shuttle-bones. 

 The front of the coffin-bone should be parallel to the front of the hoof; but 

 fallen down, rests with its point anterior to the point of the frog. d, is a hard 

 body, which appears composed of the processes or keraphyllous structure, 

 rendered solid by secretions thrown out by the rent or disturbed vessels, a 

 red serum fiUs this cavity in the recent founder. In a more advanced 

 stage of the complaint, the wall assumes various forms, sometimes bulged 



