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ESSAY ON FOOT-ROT* 
anchylosis to fear. A shoe with a lengthened toe was now put 
on, and the horse moved more easily. The cautery was applied 
to the right pastern. 
Walking exercise, gradually lengthened, was recommended. 
August 10 th .—The lameness has very much diminished ; it is 
greatest in the left pastern, which, nevertheless, is regaining its 
former obliquity. 
At the beginning of September he went to plough. 
The establishment not being willing to keep the horse, he was 
sold to a post-master for thirty francs, towards the end of the 
following June; but being badly treated by him before he was in 
a fit condition for service, he was sent to farm work. In the 
mean time, the callus had much diminished in both legs; the 
horse was scarcely lame, and the cure was regarded as perfect. 
His present proprietor, however, w r as unwilling to keep him. 
He would have to maintain him almost without work during: the 
winter, he therefore tried to get rid of him, and obtained ninety 
francs for him about the end of December. In other hands, and 
better treated, the animal gradually got into good condition, and 
was bought by a farmer at Chalons, who had no other horse, 
and who employed him in all kinds of agricultural work. I had 
the satisfaction to see him often, doing; well and free from lame- 
ness. They called him “ Broken-leg.” 
Recueil , Jan . 1834. 
ESSAY ON FOOT-ROT. 
By Mr. William Hogg, Shepherd , Parish of Stobo, 
Feeble shire. 
It is little more than twenty years since the foot-rot was known 
as a regular and contagious disorder among the mountain flocks 
of Scotland. Previously to that time, it was common enough 
among the softer breeds, grazing on low, rank pastures, and 
which, in many places, it was usual to shut up in houses and 
sheds during the night; but the ailment was considered to be 
only a casual and temporary one, productive of no very serious 
injury. As it began to spread among the mountain flocks, the 
numbers exposed to its influence, the rapidity with which it was 
propagated, and its destructive consequences, induced the store- 
masters to regard it with more attention; when it was found to 
be a very contagious disorder, going regularly through its various 
stages, and, when not checked on its first appearance, leaving the 
animal so low, that it fell a victim to poverty long before the com¬ 
mencement of mild weather and the return of abundant and 
nutritious food. 
