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acute and the animal so violent with it that slaughter 
becomes necessary. 
Treatment.—This consists in applying an antiseptic and 
sedative dressing to the injured parts (for example, Carbolized 
Oil and Tincture of Opium, equal parts) and afterwards 
bandaging. 
From the only data we are able to work on, it appears that 
this dressing should be repeated daily, the bandage being 
removed each time, the foot well bathed in warm water, and 
the dressing and bandage afterwards replaced. On first 
sight, it would appear that once cleansed and bandaged the 
dressings might be left in situ for several days. Seeing, 
however, that suppuration, if once set up, would add further 
to the intense pain the animal is already suffering, and 
considering the always constant exposure of the foot to 
infection, it is perhaps wise to persist in daily changing of 
the dressings. 
At the same time, the general health of the animal should 
be attended to. Suitable febrifuges should be administered, 
either in the shape of a dose of physic, or salines and liq. 
ammonia. acetatis; and the pain, if appearing unbearable, 
allayed by doses of choral and hypodermic injections of 
morphia. 
Recorded Cases.—1. ‘A short time ago I was called to see 
a horse which had had his hoof torn off in a railway ‘“ point.”’ 
When I arrived at the stable the injury had been done two 
hours, and the horse had been led from the railway to a 
loose-box nearly half-a-mile off. On going to this box I was 
surprised and horrified to find the poor animal mad with 
pain, rolling and dashing himself about. When on his back 
he would struggle and kick the walls with the injured foot, 
as though unconscious of pain. Not one moment was he 
still, and as I could see that the sensitive structures were 
much damaged by his violence, I obtained a gun and put 
him out of his pain. 
‘The accident happened in this way. The horse was 
employed in shunting coal-waggons, and had just drawn 
four loaded trucks up to a point at which they diverged to 
