LAMENESS IN HORSES. 
6L7 
“ The plate, which is bent upwards posteriorly, has two holes in 
the curved portion, which serve for the attachment of a band that 
surrounds the coronet, and compresses it strongly in every part, 
and somewhat above and below it. I maintain a low diet, apply 
cold lotions, and I bleed whenever the inflammation becomes in- 
tense. After some days the animal is usually perfectly cured, and 
the covering of the foot may be removed. 
“ This compression may also be used after bleeding at the toe. 
I have nothing more to do than to recommend this method of 
treatment, which I have employed during many years, and always 
with the happiest results. It also proves the great success which 
might be obtained from the use of compression in the treatment of 
a crowd of enlargements of this nature. 
“ In the course of the debate it was elicited from the Professor, 
that he never touched the bottom of the foot with a knife — that 
the object of the encircling of the coronet with a band was to 
compress the bloodvessels, and cut off, as much as possible, the 
access of arterial blood to the foot — that usually a cure was ef- 
fected in seven or eight days, and that in very few cases was it 
necessary to continue the compression until the fourteenth day. 
The horse, from the time of the application of the bandage, ex- 
hibited little or no pain, and walked in the usual manner. He 
confessed that he should not have recourse to this mode of treat- 
ment in cases of pumiced foot, nor when there was a metastasis 
of inflammation from some other part to the foot. It was prin- 
cipally advisable at the commencement of the inflammation of the 
foot. 
“ He considered the two chief causes of inflammation of the foot 
to be of a totally opposite nature ; it was the consequence of ex- 
cessive work, and of standing too long in the stable and then being 
suddenly put to hard work. It frequently attacked the feet of 
horses after a long voyage, and it was often the result of bad shoe- 
ing. He usually bled from the toe; and in bad cases he always 
bled before the application of the compress. After this bleeding 
he turned the animal out, if convenient, into a pasture bearing long 
and damp grass, or he kept the foot wet with water. On other 
occasions, and in paring out the foot, he used the same kind of 
drawing-knife that is so much in request in England.” 
[To be continued.] 
