GORGED STOMACH AND INTESTINES. 5 
hot water, be kneaded in upon the sole, over the stopping, with 
the thumb, and pressed around the edge sufficiently underneath 
the web of the shoe to maintain its hold. With his foot thus 
shod and cushioned and protected, the horse may return gra- 
dually to hard work. 
Instead of the broad-web heavy shoe, it may be advisable 
in a case where the foot is thin of horn and the crust apt to 
break away, to substitute a shoe as light as it can be made 
consistent with its purpose. A shoe made narrow but thick in 
the web will sometimes be found to answer very well when 
used in conjunction with leather or gutta percha in the manner 
before directed, such a shoe possessing the advantage of being 
held on by smaller and fewer nails than what the broad shoe 
requires. And whenever we meet with a foot of such descrip- 
tion, with thin and weak or brittle crust, we are not to be parti- 
cular as to either the number of the nails used to keep the shoe 
on or the situations they occupy through the hoof; for some- 
times it becomes necessary to nail the shoe all round in order to 
fix it firmly for work, and to make use for the purpose of double 
or even of triple the number of (small) nails we ordinarily insert. 
In fact, if the horse is to go to work in it, the shoe must be 
secured at any multiplicity and variety of nailing, and clipping 
in addition, save that of doing positive injury to the foot. 
GORGED STOMACH AND INTESTINES. 
By John Younghusband, Y.S., Grey stoke. 
To the Editor of u The Veterinarian .” 
Dear Sir, — THIS being a time of the year when, generally 
speaking, communications are doubly welcome, and it being a 
long time since I have contributed any thing, in order to make 
small amends I send you the following : — 
Oct. 1 st . — Requested by a Mr. Scott, of Wood hall, a large 
farmer and an employer of mine, to visit a bay horse that had 
got loose during the night and paid an unwelcome visit to the 
corn-bin, from which he had purloined a large quantity of a 
mixture of wheat and chaff. From fear of severe rebuke, the 
groom did not make known the accident, and in the morning 
the horse was turned out with others to graze in the meadow, 
where he had free access to water as well as food. About 
ten o’clock in the forenoon he was perceived to be unwell, and 
