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The danger of these punctures are that they may stan to 
fester. This is very painful, and also very dangerous. If it 
starts to fester, the animal holds the foot up with pain. It is 
swollen around the top and very hot. Cut down well into 
the hole and allow the matter to escape. Bathe with hot 
water and poultice to relieve the pain and draw all the matter 
out. When a large hole is necessary and the quick bulges 
out, burn it with butter of antimony once a day. After the 
animal is able to walk nicely, blister the foot around the top 
of the hoof with the same blister used in chronic founder and 
turn him out to pasture till the soreness is all out. 
7. Pricks in the Quick. 
Causes. — These injuries are done in shoeing by driving 
nails too close to the quick. 
Symptoms. — At the time of driving the nail the horse 
gives a sudden jerk, showing that the nail strikes the quick. 
Treatment. — Remove the shoe and keep the horse quiet 
for a day or two. If he is lame poultice the foot with hot 
linseed. If he continues to be lame, pare around the nail hole 
and give it the same treatment that is given for punctures of 
other nails. In any of these cases, if necessary to work him 
when he is getting better, plug the hole with tar and cotton 
batting and put a leather under the shoe to keep the dirt out 
8. Quarter Crack. 
Quarter crack receives its name on account of the part of 
the foot it affects. It generally affects the front feet, and is 
more often found to afifect the inside quarter of the foot. 
Causes. — Certain breeds of animals are more subject to 
this than others, especially if the feet are of a brittle nature. 
It is often met with in road horses, more especially if they 
have high knee action and strike the ground heavily. 
Symptoms. — At first a small crack appears in the quarter 
of the foot just below the hair. If the animal is kept at work 
he gets lame ; the crack gets larger and longer, and sometimes 
bleeds. If still kept working, it sometimes festers on account 
of the irritation being kept up. 
Treatment. — Remove the shoe, pare out the bottom of 
the affected quarter so that the shoe will not rest upon it, 
then shoe with a bar shoe. As well as this, pare out the 
crack all the way down on each side — almost to the quick — 
