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Treatment.—The principal objects to be accomplished are, to 
‘keep the feet cool by frequent sponging with cold water; next, the 
bowels must be kept loose my means of bran-mashes, or, if neces- 
sary, a dose of Glauber salts—dose, twelve ounces, dissolved in a 
pint of warm water, to which add half a gill of syrup—and an 
occasional enema of soap-suds, and also a few doses of fluid extract 
of gelseminum, say two drachms night and morning, This is the 
kind of treatment that the author has found most successful dure 
ing a long peried of practice. 
EXTREMITY OF ONF OF THE FORE LIMBS, 
QUXPAANATION.-~o, The region of the coronet; b, The sensitive laming; ¢, The point of the 
toe, a, The quarters; e, The heel; 7, The sole; g, The solar border. 
Many whe treat such diseases are apt todo too much. Youart, 
and several other writers, recommend repeated bleedings, blisters, 
and purges, and even tell us to bleed in the chronic stage. This 
is all wrong, and such outrageous treatment is almost sure to end 
in suppuration, founder, or ruin. (See article on Inflammation.) 
The patient must be kept at rest, and, if he should lie down, must 
not be disturbed. I never remove the shoes, because the patient 
is in so much pain that he can not stand on the frog or sole, and 
the shoes are a protection to the frog. 
