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Where an actual wound is to be seen, and where advice 
is sought early, then a more favourable opinion may be 
advanced. In this case antiseptic measures, commenced 
early and persisted in, may prevent the rise of further 
mischief. 
It goes without saying that, should there arise any other 
of the complications we have mentioned (viz., Arthritis, 
Necrosis of the Extensor Pedis, Sand-crack, Quittor, and 
False Quarter), the fact should be pointed out to the owner, 
and the prognosis regulated thereby. 
Treatment—Preventive.—Seeing that at any rate the 
majority of cases of coronitis result from injuries inflicted 
by the shoes, we may look at once to that particular for a 
means of prevention. 
Take first the case of ‘treads.’ There is no doubt that 
they are most common in animals shod with heavy shoes 
and with high and sharp calkins. This suggests at once 
that a preventive is to be found in substituting a calkin 
that is low and square. 
Where the injury is an overreach, and where, on account 
of the animal’s pace and manner of gait it is in risk of being 
constantly inflicted, the shoeing should be seen to at once. 
We have already pointed out that it is the inner border 
of the lower surface of the toe of the hind-shoe which, in 
the act of being drawn backwards, inflicts the injury. (See 
Fig. 110). 
In this case prevention may be brought about either by 
shoeing with a shoe whose ground surface is wholly con- 
cave, or by bevelling off the sharp border (see Fig. 110, a, 
p. 236). When the tendency to overreach is not exces- 
sive, prevention may in many cases be effected by simply 
placing the shoe of the hind-foot a trifle further back- 
wards than would ordinarily be correct, thus allowing the 
horn of the toe to project beyond the shoe. This at the 
same time does away with the annoyance of ‘ forging’ 
or ‘ clacking,’ which, as a rule, accompanies this condition. 
While recognising the value of shoeing in these cases, we 
must not forget that a great deal may be brought about by 
