EVERY-DAY CASKS. 
the sulcus, and covered the hoof with pitch; then bound tape 
all round it, and covered the whole with another coat of pitch. 
Took the horse away from his work. 
In about three weeks the bandage loosened, and, was removed. 
The new horn was evidently beginning to grown down from the 
coronet, and there was very little lameness. Bound the foot as 
before. They were short of horses, and would work this one ; 
and on the first day the lameness returned, and the crack once 
more sprung up to the coronet. I again applied the cautery, 
and remonstrated against their working him ; but a week after¬ 
wards they used him in the dray, and again he was lame. 
He was now given up to me; I once more fired him, and 
bound up the foot; and in about a month the lameness was 
gone, and the horn nicely growing down. .They were permitted 
to use him, or rather they w T ould use him, to draw a light sledge 
now and then, and afterwards they put him into the dray, and 
then into the mill. He stood it well; the horn finally grew 
down perfectly sound ; but the lower part of the foot is exceed- 
ingly oblique in front, and flat beneath. We are frequently 
obliged to take away full half an inch of horn round the toe. 
Dec . 9th, 1832. Grease.— Two old horses, one of them 
blind, belonging to the same persons. They have had grease 
many a month, the legs now and then swelling tremendously, 
and the discharge stinking abominably. By occasional poultices, 
lotions of the chloride of lime, and sometimes alum, and some¬ 
times blue vitriol, we can keep it at bay, but we cannot cure it. 
The two first are the most efficacious; the alum wash, after the 
fcetor has been subdued by the chloride, appears to be doing 
wonders for a few days ; but it is all delusive. . They have a 
tonic diuretic ball twice in the week. 
Dec . 9lh, 1832. Mange.— An Italian greyhound, twelve 
months old, belonging to U. B —, Esq., had considerable red¬ 
ness and pustular eruption on the belly, flank, and inside of the 
thighs. The skin at those parts is very hot, and the itching 
seems to be intolerable. Apply equal parts of the sulphur and 
emollient ointment; give three grains of calomel every fifth day, 
and an alterative ball (Ethiop’s mineral, sulphur, and nitre) on 
each alternate day. 
15 th. —The eruption has died away about the belly and flanks, 
but on the thigh, and extending down to the feet, it is more 
virulent than ever. The dog has lost flesh at a strange rate. 
Continue ointment; give a tonic ball, with three grains of anti- 
monial powder, daily. 
29th. —The animal continued to droop, and died to-day; but 
the eruption had been apparently yielding. He died worn down 
