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CURATIVE TREATMENT OF CANKER. 
the advantage, in the same horse, of dressing all four feet at 
once, should they require it. I have convinced myself that 
slacked lime is not at all equal to that which is unslacked. 
The latter becomes with water more unctuous ; it adheres 
better, and causes thicker crusts or sloughs, which more 
readily become detached. I procure lime as pure as I can, 
and make it into a paste with water, immediately before appli- 
cation, in order that it may, in that form, reach the sinuses 
of the foot, after having sprinkled over the cankerous surfaces 
pure chloride of lime, or else that mixed with pulverised 
tan, according to circumstances. In cases where the calcined 
calcareous stone refuses readily to absorb the water, and 
when it does not easily unslack (as is almost always the case 
with lime made from liasic earths), I obviate, in some 
measure, this inconvenience by making use of boiling water. 
First of all, I confine the paste upon the foot with a piece 
of linen, before I enclose the foot in a boot, otherwise the 
latter would speedily become destroyed by the caustic. At 
every fresh dressing, i. e. y daily, the linen is calcined, as it 
were, by the lime, so that each time fresh linen is called for. 
Chance led me to make use of pieces of sack, such as coffee is 
sent out in. This, made of a material unknown in our 
country, resists the action of the lime, and answers com- 
pletely. I may as well add, that such chloride of lime as is 
lumpy or grumous ought to be rejected, since, from its 
having been long kept, it will not form an adherent paste. In 
removing the sloughs or incrustations, we must take care not 
to make the parts bleed. Setons are found useful in the 
removal of canker . — Recueil de Med . Vet., Jan . 1853. 
*** The French Editor (M. Bouley,) has subscribed this 
article with a recommendation to his professional brethren to 
make trial of it : we have done so, and found it successful, and 
therefore can conscientiously advise our readers to do the 
same. — Ed. Vet. 
