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forced, prohibiting the sweepings or ashes being thrown into 
the streets and alleys. Usually boxes, boards, kegs, etc., are 
burned, when the ashes loaded with nails as well as the sweep¬ 
ings, are dumped into the alleys. The shipping and receiving 
doors open into the alleys from the warehouses and stores, and 
by this means our poor animals are compelled to march bravely 
on to the spikes and brads made ready to receive them. 
These are invariably thrust into the soles of the feet, but in 
one or two cases I recall the nail penetrated above hoof, in or 
near the coronary band. 
Beside nails we also have punctured wounds from toe calks,, 
splinters in runaways and kicking, and being gored by the 
horns of cattle. Our greatest danger lies in the complications, 
that may follow, such as tetanus or a great amount of slough¬ 
ing, causing the animal to shed the hoof. We also find in many 
cases a flow of synovia from an open joint; bursa or sheath of a 
tendon due to nail prick or fork tine penetrating the cavity. 
Usually in cases of punctured wounds, we have elevation of 
temperature, breathing accelerated, heart action much increased,, 
appetite impaired and very often wholly lost; and all outward 
appearances show the animal to be in great pain, while in other 
cases the animal shows little or no inconvenience from the 
injury. In some cases of nail prick we have much swelling, 
which may extend up the whole leg to the body, leg very hot 
and feverish, while in others there is no swelling at all. 
Punctured wounds are the most dangerous of all wounds, 
and should receive prompt attention. If owners realized this 
they would be saved much trouble and expense. We find the 
greatest trouble when the nail is not retained in the foot, or, as 
is the custom, to extract the nail, then fill the opening with 
tar or some gummy application, and by this means thoroughly 
seal up the opening, which should have been enlarged, causing 
the pus or serum to burrow under the sole and wall, and finally 
finding a point of exit above the hoof or frog. 
The treatment from which we have had the most successful 
results is first and most important. Make a good large external 
