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between it and the shoe; and then tack on a light bar-shoe. 
Next, I have the upper part of the crust, round the diseased part, 
rasped as thin as possible, and the hair trimmed off close round 
the coronet. And now I inject all the sinuses with a solution 
of sulphate of zinc, in the proportion of one ounce of the 
sulphate of zinc to four ounces of water; after which I apply a 
bandage, evenly and firmly, round the coronet, which by 
keeping the sinuses closer together disposes them to heal 
sooner, as well as prevents others from forming. The size 
of the bandage I use is about three yards long and three inches 
and a half wide. This I follow up every morning, for about 
four or five days. Afterwards, I use a warm solution of sul¬ 
phate of copper, and bathe the parts externally, and apply 
bandages as before. I persevere with this treatment for about 
three weeks, re-applying the bandages every morning, and 
using the solution of sulphate of copper: the one for promoting 
absorption, the other for preventing any unhealthy action taking 
place, and at the same time destroying any unhealthy dis¬ 
position there may remain in the parts. At the expiration of 
this time I have generally found all the sinuses healed up, and 
the external parts as level and even as the other leg. 
I am, dear Sir, 
Your’s truly. 
23, Whitefriars-street, June 9th, 1852. 
RUPTURE OF THE STOMACH, BOWELS, &c. 
By J. Horsburgh, M.R.C.V.S., Dalkeith. 
To the Editor of u The Veterinarian 
Sir,—T he treatment of horses used for agricultural purposes 
comes for the most part under the care of the country veterinary 
surgeon. Their diseases are different, or at least they are af¬ 
fected with diseases to which horses used in towns are not so 
subject. The nature of their work, their feeding, their exposure 
to all sorts of weather, and their stable management, no doubt, 
are the causes of this difference. And so well are these facts 
known to farmers, that some years ago a prize was offered by 
the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland for the best 
essay on the causes producing in horses employed in agriculture 
more diseases of the stomach and bowels than those employed 
at road work usually experience. This, many of us here 
thought would have brought out something useful to farmers, 
somethin that wou d have considerably altered their feeding 
