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LAMENESS IN HORSES. 
the high calkin shoe, and the physic together, effect a cure, or at 
least succeed in restoring soundness. 
A SPEEDY AND VERY EFFECTIVE MODE OF TREATMENT for 
what is called by farriers “ taking off a curb,” is, with the employ- 
ment of the high shoe, after well fomenting the swollen part, to 
apply immediately to it the acetum cantharidum (which has the 
same effect as what goes under the name of Leman s essence). 
Simply wetting the hair with it by means of a painter’s brush, and 
afterwards tying the horse’s head up for the night, is all that is 
required. In the morning the discharge caused by the vesicatory 
may be sponged off by renewed fomentation ; and this ought to 
be repeated day by day afterwards for a few days ; at the expira- 
tion of which, the physic having worked well in the interval, it 
mostly happens that the horse will be found fit to resume his work. 
This treatment for hunters, who are very apt to throw out curbs 
in their work, and whose services are required speedily again, and 
in as unreduced a state of condition as possible, is particularly in 
request. It is certainly the most speedy way I know of to remove 
the lameness of curb ; at the same time it cannot be lauded as the 
plan of treatment most likely to restore enduring or permanent 
soundness. 
About cooling and discutient Lotions nothing has been 
said, because for the most part they require the application of a 
cloth or bandage ; and this, in curb, is no very practicable matter ; 
else, there is no reason why cold applications and evaporating and 
discutient lotions should not avail as much in curb as in any other 
description of sprain ; and there are practitioners who make use of 
them, and efficient use, by keeping the hair over the inflamed parts 
continually wetted with the lotion employed. Ice, no doubt, 
would be an excellent application for an inflamed curb, could it be 
retained upon the part. Use what we may in preference to 
fomentation — the common remedy for the purpose — any inflamma- 
tion present in the tumour should be drawm out or very sensibly 
diminished before we think of applying a blister in the potent 
form in which it is for curb or sprain ordinarily administered. 
Corrosive sublimate dissolved in spirits of wine , in the propor- 
tion of 3j to gj, is a favourite remedy with some practitioners; and 
for slight cases it often answers very well. The hair may be 
wetted with the solution in the same manner (with a painter’s 
brush) as the acetum cantharidum is recommended to be used ; and 
the part, as soon as the hair has become matted or roughened, 
fomented. Others there are whose practice it is to form a paste of 
spirits of wine and pipe-clay, and spread it upon the curb, keeping 
the plaster continually applied. This is no more than a convenient 
