474 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



tion of the heel, of the foot bone or ulceration of the 

 lateral cartilage, these must be scraped or cut off before 

 improvement is to be expected. If connected with side 

 hones, they are liable to be kept up by frequent pinching 

 of the quick between the bone and horn, and demand 

 careful shoeing to avoid pressure on the heel. Some 

 cases may be benefited by cutting out the side bone. 



BEUISES OF THE SOLE. 



Whether resulting from badly applied shoes, stones, 

 accumulated gravel or dried mud, these are to be recog- 

 nized, like corns, by pinching the hoof or tapping it with 

 a hammer, and are to be treated on precisely the same 

 principles, relieving the pressure when necessary, soothing 

 the parts, opening when matter has formed, followed up by 

 poulticing and bar shoe with leather sole and tar stuffing. 



Geaveling is closely alhed to the above, dirt having 

 worked up through the unnatural groove between the wall 

 and sole, and set up suppuration. Except in the careful 

 removal of the foreign elements, treatment does not dif- 

 fer from that of suppurating bruise or com. 



i-EICKS AND BINDING WITH NAILS. 



These usuaRy occur in thin weak feet or such as have 

 been reduced by over-cutting and rasping till there is 

 little to hold the nails ; in the case of nail stubs being left 

 in the hoof from a former shoeing so as to turn the new 

 nails in a wrong direction, and when the blacksmith is too 

 stupid to recognize the difference between the stroke ol 

 driving a nail into the soft spongy horn and the hard firm 

 outer horn of the wall. Simple binding with the nails 

 may cause intermittent or persistent lameness, and there 

 is flinching on striking the heads of the nails or the wall 

 with a hammer, or in compressing the margiii of the hoof 

 with pincers. If matter forms there are all the local ten- 

 derness and inability to use the foot spoken of in suppu- 

 rating coxn. In simple pricks an examination of the naD 



