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The only method of treatment that can be practised, 
therefore, is that of palliation. Seeing that the trouble the 
veterinary attendant will have to deal with is loss of a 
portion of the weight-bearing surface, his attention is im- 
mediately directed to the shoeing. As with sand-crack, so 
with false quarter, the frog and the bars must be called 
upon to take more of the body-weight than commonly they 
do with the ordinary shoe. The indication, then, is a bar 
shoe. At the same time, the bearing of the wall on the 
shoe on either side of the fissure should be eased by slightly 
paring it, and the hypertrophied horn on the outer surface 
of the wall removed with the rasp. 
In cases where penetration of the sensitive structures 
has occurred, complicated with the formation of pus, the 
same treatment as for complicated crack is to be followed. 
The foot should be poulticed for several days with hot anti- 
septic dressings, and thorough cleansing of the infected 
parted brought about. Afterwards strong solutions of suit- 
able antiseptics should be applied daily until such time as 
the horny covering has renewed itself. This done and the 
bar shoe applied, the fissure may be plugged with any 
effectual stopping. Hither a mixture, such as Percival’s, of 
pitch 2 parts, tar 1 part, and resin 1 part, melted and 
mixed together, or one of the artificial hoof-horns may 
either be used with advantage. 
E. ACCIDENTAL TEARING OFF OF THE ENTIRE 
HOOF. 
Causes.—Seeing that this accident to, and consequent 
severe wounding of, the keratogenous membrane nearly 
always occurs in but one way, itis worthy of special mention. 
So far as we are able to ascertain, it is an accident peculiar 
to horses continually engaged in shunting operations either 
in pits or station-yards. At the moment the animal is re- 
leased from the waggon he has been pulling, and should 
turn to the right or the left in order to allow it to pass him, 
the shoe either becomes wedged in between two converging 
rails, or is trapped by the wheel of the waggon. Hither 
