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■ or no interference with the foot permitted, except the removal 
of the month’s growth ; the shoe should be made to fit the toot 
and not the foot to fit the shoe ; nails to be kept as low as 
possible, the wall on no account to be rasped, the frog to receive 
pressure and nothing but the loose portions removed with the 
knife. The results of neglect are often very troublesome and 
sometimes incurable. Thrush is the most common result of 
neglect due to not living the frcg pressure and keeping the teet 
dean and dry, and I can assure those here present to-night that 
a very large percentage of the horses in Port-of-Spain to-day are 
affected with that disease. Some feet are unnaturally brittle 
and sometimes hoof ointments are applied to prevent this. Such 
cases are best treated through the system ; brittle feet are often 
due to digestive derangement. Clean stable flooring is essential to 
sound and healthy feet. Water, -I think I may safely say .hat 
it is only within recent years that the necessity for the supply 
of pure water for use of both man and beast has been recognized. 
Before the light of scientific investigation into obscure causes 
of epidemic diseases was brought to bear, but little attention had 
Wei paid to the subject. The first point that natural y rises in 
dealing with the subject of water is the quantity required. Quoting 
from Veterinary Captain F. Smith who says from experiment 
made in India, the average amount was about S. gallons daily 
taken as follows : 
m, . ... 1.9 gallons. 
The morning water ... ••• 
M id-day - - - ' ' ” 
p . ... ••• 3.15 „ 
For myself I am of opinion that of Ex^pti qg in 
b'tjen, the horse himself is gcneuvllj exce ’ssively hot or ex- 
a few cases, such as where the > without" water for an 
liausted, or has from any cause been » 1 . . , y tM purgation 
tisdue length of time or where t .here j^j'to drink as much as 
^ diuresis the horse may be sa * c 1 stables that horses 
likes. It is the rule in all well f^^nSary practice 
•jlioulcl be watered before being ec . . a f te rwards, the 
! s followed, namely, feeding ll,st iU1 f lie or ° other abdominal 
Wse is liable to have an attac - , jf the physiology 
derangements, the reason w simp seen that the water 
of the horse’s stomach be studied, through it on 
does not stay there, but passes '«»> 'j - the horse has just 
' Va y to the caecum or large gut. - .... fnw ' 
ns 
yay to the caicum or large „u.. * j u 
been fed, the stomach is consequen ^ 
jherefoie the water passing through w- f< 
1,1 to the small intestines, some P ’ 
Properly prepared for transmission. 
undigested food, 
to carry with it 
, w ,._ _Dod before it is 
This "food, not being di- 
