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DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



slings, if he will not lie down. When the inflammation subsides, 

 but little more is necessary to be done than to let the parts alone, 



dressed with any of the prepara- 

 tions before given. 



To illustrate the seriousness of 

 these cases sometimes, I will, refer 

 to an accident of the kind to one 

 of my own horses. One of my 

 men, who had special charge of 

 and drove a favorite pony, took ft 

 into his head during the winter to 

 have the ,calks pointed with steel 

 and made very sharp. While the 

 pony was standing rh his stall, with 

 one foot resting against the oppo- 

 site, he was suddenly startled by 

 some one approaching, when, 

 throwing his weight upon the ele- 

 vated foot, the inside calk was driv- 

 en well into the coronet of- the op- 

 posite foot. I was kept ignorant of 

 the accident. for several days, when 

 it was made known to nle by discovering the horse to be lame. The 

 injury at the surface did notseCm to be 

 serious, but it was deep. In conse- 

 quence of being driven on the road, the 

 inflammation soon became so serious 

 that it was necessary, at great incon- 

 venience, to leave the horse behind a 

 couple- of weeks, the part in the 

 meantime being thoroughly poulticed 

 and fomented. The inflammation 

 passing off", and. being entirely free 

 from lameness, he was again put to 

 his Work on the road, when the roads 

 ,were breaking up. driving him 

 through the deep mud for a few 

 miles again brought on such serious 

 inflammation of the parts as to ne- 

 cessitate a constant application of fo- 

 mentations for hours at ( a time, night 

 andday, for several days, to overcome it. Fig- 846 is an illustration 



Fig. 846.7— As the Foot was Held During 

 the Period of Greatest Inflammation. 



Fig. 847. — The Usual Appearance of a 



Foot Badly Calked, and Neglected 



or Improperly Treated: 



