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Brushing is frequently due to weakness, and is, therefore, especially 
common in long-legged, debilitated animals. When exhausted after a long 
journey, many horses are liable to cut, and often very seriously. Brushing 
may also be due to turning out the toes, or to certain irregularities in the 
shape of the animal. Wide-chested horses, with well proportioned hind- 
quarters, very seldom cut. This habit sometimes, moreover, owes its origin 
to defective shoeing, by which the outer quarter of the foot is made higher 
than the inner. After treating the injured spot by the application 
of some antiseptic ointment, as the unguentum -acidi _borici, it is 
necessary to take steps to prevent the infliction of this injury. A very 
valuable antiseptic ointment, useful for dressing the he injured part,,may be 
made of oil of eucalyptus, two drachms ; carbolic a acid, half a drachm ; 
iodoform, half a drachm ; lard, an ounce and a half; vaseline, an ounce and 
2, a half. If there be a arse scabbed suirfade, caused by the infliction of 
“previous cuts, this is removed by poultices, before applying the ointment. 
The formula above- mentioned, we may add in _Passing, is a very valuable 
application to any sore ao as it possesses. great antiseptic and Bealing 
puoperties: 7 ee 
With regard to the prevention of brushing-and speedy cutting, it is- 
found that horses shod by the Charlier method—of which we spoke in 
treating of navicular disease—seldom or never inflict these injuries upon 
themselves. The patent pads made of india-rubber, are very useful in 
preventing speedy cutting. They are shaped like crescents, and consist of 
two distinct parts, one flat, the other projecting in the form of a pad. The 
flat portion is introduced between the shoe and the foot, and the pad thus 
projects beyond the shoe. If the owner does not procure these valuable 
preventive pads, the inner side of the shoe of the injured limb may be made 
thicker, or the horny crust of the outer quarter of the same foot may be 
made lower; and that section of the shoe which inflicts the wound must be 
smoothed off by the smith. In case these alterations prove unavailing, a 
stout india-rubber ring, such as that commonly employed, or a leathern boot 
laced on the leg may be procured. 
Although we mentioned that in speedy cutting the injury is generally 
situated below the knee, we have met with instances where it has been 
inflicted just above the joint, and it is not so very uncommon for the hind 
limbs to be similarly injured, immediately below the hock joints. The injury, 
especially when repeated, is liable, like brushing, to cause a bony growth at 
the wounded spot ; and its repetition increases the tumefaction, and renders 
the habit more liable to become permanent. In examining horses, it not 
unfrequently happens that a bony growth is found at the spot, wherea 
speedy cut has been inflicted by the shoe. It is advisable, therefore, in 
purchasing a horse, to see whether there be any traces of previous injuries. 
In some severe instances, speedy cutting is attended with some 
constitutional disturbance, and cases in which matter is formed at the 
bruised spot are not very uncommon. In such cases the animal must be 
rested, and placed in a comfortable loose box. Good nutritious diet of a 
