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poultices and the animal encouraged to lie down. Should 

 he refuse to lie down the hoof-wall should be rasped down 

 to let the sole come in contact with the ground. In severe 

 cases the coronet may be scarified with a sharp lancet and 

 the foot placed in a bucket of warm water or fomented with 

 the same to favor bleeding. In the course of two days, if the 

 suffering, fever and local tenderness are increasing rather 

 than abating, the sole may be thinned and opened at the 

 toe, so as to evacuate any serous exudation and limit the 

 separation of the horn from the quick, the poultices being 

 kept on after as before. In the course of ten days or a 

 fortnight the inflammation should have subsided far 

 enough to warrant the application of a blister to the pas- 

 tern and an ointment to the hoof, whUe the patient is 

 turned out on a soft wet pasture or kept standing a part 

 of his time on wet clay. 



CHEONIC liAMINITIS. CONVEX SOLES. PUMICE FEET. 



If the inflammation persists in a slight form, an excess- 

 ive growth of soft, spongy horn takes place in front of the 

 laminae at the toe, separating the coffin-bone from the 

 hoof-wall and allowing its anterior border to press upon 

 the sole or even to perforate it. The hoof-waU becomes 

 covered with rings usually running together at the toe, 

 where it bulges out below and falls in above. Complete 

 restoration cannot be expected in the worst cases of this 

 kind, but much may be done for the majority. Put on a 

 thick broad webbed bar shoe beveled toward the inner 

 side on its upper surface and thinner at the heel than the 

 toe, dress the sole and wall daily with hot tar, apply gen- 

 tle blisters around the coronet, and keep in a very soft 

 damp pasture. The new growth of horn may grow down 

 almost perfect in appearance, but it retains an undesira- 

 ble brittleness. 



CR.\CKS IN THE HOOE-WALL. SAND-CRACK. QUARTER-CRACK. 



The predisposition to this is usually to bo found in 

 rasping and drying of the hoof-wall, in une-^on bearing of 



