INFLAMMATORY AFFECTIONS 291 
one or two to be found chiefly in Continental works on this 
subject. 
The method of Gross consists in thinning down with a 
rasp about 1} inches of the horn of the wall immediately 
below the coronet, the thinned portion extending from heel 
to heel. The groove made is filled with basilicon ointment,* 
and the coronet stimulated with a cantharides ointment. 
In this way there is induced to grow from the coronet a new 
wall of nearly normal dimensions. 
By other operators (Bayer, Imminger, Meyer, and 
Gunther) this treatment has been modified by enlarging 
upon it and removing the whole of the adventitious horn. 
Fic. 128.—Tue-SHor witH HEEL-cLIP. 
This is done by means of the drawing-knife and the rasp, 
the ugly-looking pumiced foot being carefully cut and 
trimmed until, so far as outward appearances are con- 
cerned, it is perfectly normal. This done, the whole foot 
is treated with a suitable hoof ointment, and a shoe applied 
that affords protection to the sole without imposing pressure 
ugjon it. The shoe indicated is either an ordinary shoe 
with an unusually broad and well-seated web, or the seated 
Mocker Bar of Broad. With either it is well to additionally 
* Basilicon ointment is made by heating together resin 8 parts, 
bbeswax 8 parts, olive oil 8 parts, and lard 6 parts. Allow to cool 
without stirring. 
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