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cure. Another method is to draw the crack together and put over it a cap 
made of thin steel, secured by small screws introduced into the hard horn. 
of the hoof. This and the use of a bar-shoe will be effectual. 
FALSE QUARTER. 
This consists in a separation of the horny fibers of the foot, similar to 
that in sandcrack, which produces lameness and weakness in the affected 
heel. Its causes are injury to the crown in quittor; treading of the horse 
on his inside quarter; treading on the outside by another horse; other ex- 
ternal causes. 
Symptoms.—Deficiency of horn in the side of the hoof, or a fissure, 
generally with a horny bottom; in some cases, exposure of the sensitive 
layers, which become inflamed, attended with oozing of matter or blood, 
and lameness. 
TREATMENT.—In the absence of inflammation, rasp the quarter until 
it springs under the thumb; put on a bar-shoe ¢hat does not press on the 
affected quarter. Take the horse from ‘ 
work and apply a blister to the crown; 
or fill up the fissure with an adhesive 
dressing, as tar, pitch, or heated shoe- 
maker’s wax, putting broad tape over 
the whole. When the fissure is open at yy, S"QuINGSurr- 
the bottom and blood or matter oozes out, QUART 
rasp the quarter thin, put on a bar-shoe, and bathe the foot with hot water 
and a lotion of calendula during the day, a tablespoonful of the tincture of 
calendula to a tumblerful of water; at night, apply dirt wet in the same 
lotion, and upon it a linseed or turnip poultice. If work be required when 
the crack is open, fasten on lint and calendula-ointment with tapes. 
a 
FALSE QUARTER. 
SORE SHINS. 
By this term is meant a disease which is primarily an inflammation of 
the covering of the front part of the bones from the knee to the fetlock. 
It occurs most often in young horses, and results from concussion incident 
to fast work. 
Symptoms.—Inflammation of the sheath of the bones below the knee, 
followed by bony matter in small knobs, sometimes in layers, on the knee, 
TREATMENT.—Rhus-lotion, one ounce of the tincture to fifteen ounces 
of water, should be applied several times daily, and ten drops be given in- 
ternally every four or five hours. This will arrest if not cure the trouble. 
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