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shoe can be safely nailed, and whereon the enormous bulk of the horse’s 
frame may with safety rest. 
But when overwork affects the natural functions of the body, the two 
kinds of horn do not unite; their division invariably 
begins at the toe, as it always commences in the nail of 
the human being at the outer margin. If the seedy toe 
be tapped or gently struck, it emits a hollow sound; 
and if the shoe be removed, there will be found a va- 
cant space between the two layers of horn; into this 
space a nail, a piece of broom, or a straw is commonly 
pushed, to ascertain the depth of the lesion. THE APPEARANCE PRE- 
SENTED BY SEEDY TOE 
Mr. Spooner advised that the whole of the detached warn tue sxoz 18 
REMOVED, AND THE 
horn should be cut away. ‘The writer, however, insists  crounp surrace oF 
that the horse should be thrown up—not turned out to eared 
grass, but placed in an airy, loose box, and liberally 
fed, or otherwise so treated as its condition may require. Once every 
fortnight, for two months, the smith should inspect the 
foot, and should cut away so much of the outer wall as 
may still be disunited. It commonly takes three or 
four months for the hoof to grow down or to become 
perfect; and rest, with liberal feeding, during this time, 
is sufficient to renovate an exhausted frame. A new 
and sound covering for the hoof of the invigorated 
horse is secreted by the expiration of the period named; "tae ‘noor armen THE 
nor has it reached the knowledge of the writer that any fewoven witn THE 
animal, after such a mode of treatment, has been liable “"™ 
to a second attack. 
The ordinary method of cure is to cut away the hoof; then, having 
nailed a shoe on, to send the disfigured horse to resume labor. Under 
this form of treatment, the seedy division, once confined to the toe, has 
extended to the quarters; the structure of the hoof being destroyed, the 
horn was unfitted for its purposes. The weight of the body forced the 
sensitive lamine from the coronary secretion, and the foot, after long 
treatment, became a deformity. The author has never belreld so lament- 
able a termination; but it is described by writers upon seedy toe with a 
complacency which seems to regard so grievous a result as the natural 
consequence of an intractable disorder. 
