346 SEEDY TOE. 
to mitigate the suffering ; a bar shoe with a clip at the toe may be used, 
the bearing being taken off at the seat of false quarter. The portion of 
crust near to the weakened part should be beveled off, so as to join the 
soft horn with an insensible edge. Some persons recommend a mixture 
of pitch, tar, and rosin to be poured over the exposed quarter; the 
author has not found this compound to answer; it peels and breaks off 
upon the horse being put in motion. <A piece of gutta-percha, of pro- 
portionate thickness, fastened over the place, has sometimes remained 
on for a week, and answered to admiration. 
SEEDY TOE. 
It appears not to have occurred to writers upon veterinary subjects 
that the horse, which breathes but to work—for the instant its ability to 
toil ceases the knacker becomes its possessor—that an animal which 
exists under so severe a law, should occasionally be “used up ;” that a 
creature which is sold from master to master, all of whom become pur- 
chasers with a view only to “the work” each can get out of the “ thews 
and muscles,” should occasionally be debilitated to that stage which 
might interfere with the healthiness of its secretions, is a notion that 
seems to have been beyond the reach of those writers who have hitherto 
composed books upon the equine race. A separa- 
tion between the union of the two layers of horn 
which compose the crust has been long known; it 
has been much thought about, and the fancy has been 
somewhat racked to account for its origin. Still, 
although the human physician has recorded the brit- 
SECTION oF anonse’s poor tle state and abnormal condition of man’s nails in 
Appotep WiTH BSEPY peculiar stages of disease, no one seems thence to 
have argued that a certain condition of body might 
possibly affect the hoofs of our stabled servant. 
The method of cure which the author adopted, led thereto by the 
admirable lectures of Mr. Spooner, and the success it met, soon made 
apparent the fact of its origin; but, before describing this, it may be as 
well to inform the reader in what consists a seedy state of the horse’s 
toe. 
The wall of the foot is composed of two layers—the outer one, the 
hardest, the darkest, and the thinnest, is secreted by the coronet; the 
inner layer, the softest, thickest, and most light in color, is derived from 
the sensitive lamine. These different kinds of horn, in a healthy state, 
unite one with the other, so that the two apparently form one substance. 
The junction makes a thick, elastic, and strong body, whereto an iron 
