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does not seem calculated to remove the deformity. A pumice foot is 
not a lump of pudding, to be flattened by simple pressure. In the 
horse’s hoof there is bone and flesh to operate upon. Even supposing 
the standing upon flag-stones was beneficial, what immediate result 
could be anticipated from a medicine which was to be administered 
once in three weeks, and for half an hour only at each application ? 
THE SIDE VIEW OF A PUMICED FOOT. THE SOLE OF A PUMICED FOOT. 
Showing the swollen or rounded state of the aole, Displaying a ragged wall, and exhibit- 
with the brittle and uneven condition of the ing avery healthy frog and a bulging 
crust. sole. 
Another artifice is to draw a hot iron over the sole at every shoeing. 
The intention is to stimulate the horn and thus render the sole of greater 
thickness. But that which may affect the secreting membrane of the 
foot may also stimulate the bone to which that membrane is attached. 
Thus the intended remedy may turn out to be a positive aggravation. 
A PUMICED FOOT DIVIDED. A DISH SHOE. 
Showing the altered state of the internal structures. Employed in cases of severe pumice foot. 
There are also other methods of intended relief, but all are equally 
useless. 
The only means of real benefit lies in the treatment of the hoof and 
in the mode of shoeing. For the last, select what is denominated a 
“dish” shoe; that is, a bar shoe, having the web hollowed out like to 
the sides of a pie-dish. The only part of this shoe which touches the 
ground is the rim of the inner circle. 
This kind of shoe will protect the bulging sole, and if shod with 
leather, the protection will be greater, though the shoe will, in that 
case, be more difficult to retain. The flat surface at the posterior part 
of the shoe presents a point for the bearing of the frog, which can 
