G8 OBSERVATIONS ON INJURIES, ETC., AMONG ARMY HORSES, 
upon which there is much traffic, of horses especially, must 
fall into a bad state. 
Injuries to the frog by the punctures of loose nails, pieces 
of bone, and, in the hunting season, of the cut stubbly ends 
of the cotton plant, are cases now and then met with. 
On many occasions we have known the shoes to have been 
violently wrenched and so far disturbed as to bring the point 
of the clip in contact with the under surface of the sole, which 
it has penetrated at the next step, and caused a simple 
wound. An inferior quality of iron has not unfrequently been 
used in making nails, which, when driven, have split into two 
or more pieces, which have run in different directions. We 
have often traced lameness and suppuration in the tissues of 
the foot to this cause, and have ourselves removed the iron 
fragment from the foot. It has been thought that this cause, 
though productive of no suppuration, may have been at the 
bottom of many obscure lamenesses we have met with. 
The term corn, simple or suppurative, has become obsolete 
in our nomenclature, not only on account of its conveying an 
erroneous idea, but also on account of its very rare occur- 
rence. The term, like others equally inexpressive and un- 
professional, is still retained, as in Appendix No. 7 of f The 
Regulations for the performance of Veterinary Duties, 
1856/ 
We sometimes do get extravasation of blood into the in- 
terstices of the whole sole from severe contusion (case under 
treatment now), but we do not call it corn, though it is only 
an exaggerated form of a similar condition found more 
frequently within the inflected angle of the inner heel of the 
crust. We do .not remember meeting with one of these 
latter cases within the past two and a half years in a trooper, 
but we have in chargers, their owners’’ treatment predisposing 
the feet for this, as well as for many other abnormal 
conditions. 
As we are speaking about the foot, a few other remarks 
may not be out of place. That solution of continuity in the 
longitudinal fibrous arrangement of the hoof known as 
“ sandcrack ” occurs in these parts of India, usually during 
the latter third of December and throughout January, when 
the weather is cold and rainy, or when a change is taking 
place from the dry to the humid state of the atmosphere. 
We were not a little surprised at this, as we had been taught 
to believe that sandcrack was a condition peculiar to an 
opposite character of circumstances. Respecting causes, 
there must be a combination, though the inquisitive always 
ask for the cause, as in most other affections. 
