266 CASK OF PUNCTURE IN THE FOOT OF THE HORSE. 
Mr. Henderson, veterinary surgeon to the Queen Dowager. 
(Mr. Henderson’s approbation and use of the patent ex- 
tends only to the wood pavement and to frosty weather.) 
— W. C. Spooner, Southampton 
— J. Gibson, Manchester 
— Robert Dickson, BrookVmews, Berkeley-square 
— D. Woodin, Upper-place, Dorset-square 
— T. Burrell, Great Windmill-street 
— Daniel Dunnett, Bury St. Edmunds. 
We wish not to enter any farther into the subject. The pro- 
fession has pretty well come to an understanding with regard to 
it, and we can better employ ourselves than in quarrelling. — En. 
A CASE OF PUNCTURE IN THE FOOT OF THE 
HORSE. 
By Mr. J. Clapp, V. S., Park-street, Borough . 
Some time ago my attention was directed to a valuable chaise- 
mare that had been lamed in the off fore foot two days previous 
to my seeing her. 
On removing the shoe and thinning the sole, which I did until 
some bleeding took place, I could find nothing that explained 
the great excitement and lameness that presented itself. The 
pulse was above 90. 
The frog being apparently a sound one, 1 had not touched it 
with the knife ; but now, thinking it necessary to carry my ex- 
amination farther, I cleared its surface, and about an inch and a 
half from the point I discovered a black mark in the frog, and in 
which was embedded a part of a nail nearly an inch and a half 
in length, that appeared to have been broken there. After ex- 
tracting the nail a quantity of black pus followed. 1 then thinned 
the whole surface of the foot until it yielded to pressure, scarify- 
ing the foot in various directions. I then bled freely from the 
shoulder, fomented the foot well, and applied a large poultice ; 
and she being prepared, 1 gave her a brisk dose of physic, turned 
her into a loose box, and she was not long there before she lay 
down. In a few days synovia appeared, which was checked by 
a solution of sulph. of zinc and concentrated acid. 
At the expiration of two months, during which she had been 
well poulticed and bled, although she was much better, she was 
very far from being sound. The diseased foot was nearly one 
inch less in circumference than the healthy one. 
