CORNS. 353 
day passes onward, the tone becomes more and more authoritative. The 
horse is at last too often demanded from the hospital, and taken to re- 
sume ordinary labor before the injury is effaced. Should no evil effect 
ensue on such a culpable want of caution, the proprietor is apt to 
chuckle over his daring with another’s sufferings, and to blame the 
science which would not incur risk, even to propitiate an employer. 
Corn is not generally reckoned unsoundness. If a horse be lame 
from corn, the lameness renders the horse unsound; but the corn does 
not. Such is the beauty of horse logic when pronounced in a court of 
justice! A corn may suppurate, or may provoke lameness at any 
moment. Still the corn, in the bleared eye of the law, is no sufficient 
objection to the purchase of a horse. The 
suppurated corn may lead to quittor—still, 
corn is not legal unsoundness. It is a pity 
such is the case, since it leads men to neglect 
that which is removable. When the sole is 
high, the shoe should always be accompanied 
by a leathern sole. Liquid stopping should be 
poured into the open space at the back of the 7 rosmpnion oF 4 monsr’s 
foot; and at every time of shoeing, the smith ge 
. B i The central angular mark indi- 
should pare the sole quite thin, even until drops cates the place into which the 
of blood bedew the surface of the horn. When ee ss 
corns appear in flat or fleshy feet, as shoeing 
time comes round, only have the very ragged portions of the frog taken 
away. Have the web of the shoe narrowed so as to remove all chance 
of pressure against the iron. Lower the heels of the shoe, or try a bar 
shoe with the bearing taken off over the seat of corn; should that not 
answer, next put on a three-quarter shoe: many horses, however, will 
go sound in tips, that cannot endure any other sort of protection to the 
foot. By resort to one or the other of these measures, that injury, 
which in the learned eye of the law is of no consequence, but which, 
nevertheless, may lead to terrible lameness, or even lay the foundation 
for a quittor, may be greatly mitigated. 
Bruise of the sole is an accident leading to effusion of blood—so far 
it resembles corn; but it is dissimilar in not occurring on a part subject 
to the same degree of motion, and, therefore, is not so severe in the con- 
sequences to which it leads. It is caused by treading on a stone, and 
is removed by paring off the horn which has been discolored or lies 
immediately beneath the injury. It seldom leads to great lameness or 
gives rise to serious results. It is treated after the manner directed for 
corn; but it is always advisable to shoe once, with leather, the horse 
which has suffered from bruise of the sole. The difference between 
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