CRACKED HEELS. 
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This dressing may be applied when the animal is convalescent, 
at which period he may be sent out with an attendant, who should 
take care that the animal does not enter water. 
Slym recommends for this affection the following dressing : — 
Bark of the jack tree ... ... A good quantity^ 
Substance of the palmyra palm trunk ... A good quantity. 
Boil with water a good quantity, or so much that, after about four hours, 
a gallon or more is left ; strain, and while hot add — 
Catechu ... ... ... 6 ozs. 
Soda ... ... ... 6 ozs. 
Wax ... ... ... 8 ozs. 
Oil ... ... ... 3 qts. 
Make the elephant lie down and apply the above with a piece of cloth 
after cleaning the crevices (Formulae 133 and 134). 
Arsenic may be given internally : either liquor arsenicalisy 
half an ounce morning and evening, or arsenic, 2 grains m.orning 
and evening for ten days or so, after which it should be discontinued 
for a few days during which time other tonics should be substituted. 
Cracked Heels. 
This condition is the sajhan of the natives of India. 
Causes. — Bad management, as it is seen usually in animals kept 
on filthy standings ; those allowed to stand for days together in slush, 
and those that have to work timber daily in water. Forsyth attri- 
butes it also to constitutional causes, and remarks that it is a serious 
unsoundness owing to its liability to recur every rains. 
Symptoms. — Consist of a cracked condition of the foot, usually 
about the junction of the horny sole and the skin, from which a 
discharge may issue. 
Treatment : Preventive. — Animals that have to work in water 
should be carefully inspected after work and, on the slightest 
appearance of any cracking, the matter should be reported and the 
animal rested or changed to other work. 
Curative. — Clean and thoroughly dry standings if possible on 
cement or boarded floors ; on no account should an animal be 
allowed to enter slush or water ; he should be bathed away from a 
stream. The affected parts are to be cleansed thoroughly daily 
with phenyle (i- — 60), or carbolic acid (i — 60), or Condy's fluid 
I ounce to the pint, and the parts dressed with carbolized vaseline or 
oil, oxide of zinc ointment, or boracic acid ointment, or with pow- 
dered boracic acid and iodoform, equal parts, or iodoform, oxide of 
zinc and starch, equal parts. If discharge is profuse, acetate of lead, 
