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JAMES A. WAUGH. 
icated poultices to the feet, and, if deemed necessary, put the 
patient in slings or trevit. 
It is sometimes necessary to make an opening at the anterior 
border of the sole and postero-inferior border of the toe to allow 
the escape and drainage of serous exudation or pus. 
The treatment will be a minor affair when one acquires suf¬ 
ficient knowledge and clinical experience enough to diagnosti¬ 
cate a case. 
There appears to be a dearth of literature on this subject in 
our veterinary text-books in this country, and I asked for a little 
information about it from a veterinarian who had been a horse- 
shoer for twenty-five years, also a student at two veterinary 
colleges and graduated from one, and he candidly admitted that 
he had never seen a case or ever heard of a case of toe-clip in¬ 
jury, aud his father had been a horse-doctor and horse-shoer for 
over sixty years. Therefore, I deem it advisable to piesent brief 
reports of several cases from my own private practice. 
Case No? i .—Clyde mare, owned by a capitalist and located 
on a farm eighteen miles from the city. She was shod and put 
to work early in the springtime, and became very lame in the 
right fore-foot. A city veterinarian was summoned, but was too 
busy to attend, yet he promised to send the writer, but was 
dilatory and busy and overlooked it. Then another one was 
called, but he, too, was too busy for a country trip, but promised 
to send a better man. They both called me about the same 
time, and I hastened out and found the patient suffering severely 
and unable to eat any food. The foot was very hot and painful, 
tendons and ligaments tense at the back of the knee ; knee 
bowed forward ; elbow lowered ; scapulo-humeral angle reduced 
and .limb apparently much elongated, with the heel elevated 
and the foot resting lightly on the toe. The blacksmith was a 
very careful young man, and had removed the shoe and searched 
every nail hole for pricks or binds, but without avail, and the 
foot was poulticed. It was a very fine animal and had excellent 
feet. The foot-searcher indicated soreness at the union of the 
sole with the toe, and we pared away until a dark serous fluid 
