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limb; by observing the outlines; by testing the change, if any, in tem- 

 perature and the state of the sensibility, one may be guided to a correct 

 localization of the seat of trouble, but one must catefully refrain from 

 the adoption of a hasty conclusion, and above all, assure himself that he 

 has not failed to make the foot, of all the organs of the horse the most 

 liable to injury and lesion, the subject of the most thorough and minute 

 examination of all the parts which compose the suffering extremity. 



The greater liability of the foot than of any other part of the extrem- 

 ties to injury from causualities, natural to its situation and use, should 

 always suggest the beginning of an inquiry, especially in an obscure 

 lameness at that point. Indeed the lameness may have an apparent 

 location elsewhere, when that is the true seat of the trouble, and the 

 person who, while examining his lame patient, discovers a ringbone, and 

 satisfying himself that he has encountered the cause of the disordered 

 action suspends his investigation without subjecting the foot to a closer 

 scrutiny, may deeply regret his neglect at a later day, when regrets will 

 avail nothing towards remedying the injury which has ensued upon his 

 partial method of exploration. But, as in human experience, there are 

 instances when disease will deliver their fatal messages, while leaving no 

 mark and making no sign by which they might be identified and classi- 

 fied, so that it will happen that in the humbler animals the onset and 

 progress of mysterious and unrecognizable ailments will at times baffle 

 the best veterinarian skill, and leave our burden-bearing servants to suc- 

 cum to the inevitable, and suffer and perish in unrelieved distress. 



Shoe Boil. If fluid has formed (known by soft elastic feeling) open 

 the part, and with a syringe inject tincture of iodine. If fluid has not 

 formed use tincture of iodine externally twice daily. Treat capped hock 

 and capped knee with same external treatment ; never open. 



Nail in the Foot. Cut away hoof to allow exit of pus, apply 

 turpentine, then a linseed meal poultice, hot. Rest. Apply tar 

 ointment or tow and tar before working the horse. 



