PUNCTURED WOUNDS OF THE FOOT. 
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Case No. i.—The foreman of a truckman’s stable came to 
me early on the morning of May 8th, 1889, wanting me to 
come immediately with him and see a horse that he thought 
had some serious kidney trouble. I asked him to describe the 
symptoms as he saw them. He said the horse lay stretched 
out in the stall; attempted to micturate frequently; was 
breathing fast, and was so stiff he could not move him out of 
the stall; also that he refused to eat. I accompanied him 
back to the stable, and on our way there he remarked that 
two days previous, in the morning, the horse had picked up a 
nail, but that he had had a pork rind and a leather applied to 
the foot, and the horse had worked the remainder of the day. 
As the horse was quite lame the next day, he allowed him to 
remain in the stable. He expressed great confidence that the 
foot would be all right if I could only effect a cure of this 
other disease. 
On arriving at the stable an examination convinced me 
that the wound of the foot was the whole and only trouble. 
The animal was a bay gelding, five years old, weighing over 
1,500 pounds. He was standing, working his near hind leg 
spasmodically, as though in great pain ; he appeared to want 
to put the foot to the floor, but upon touching it with the toe 
would jerk it up again. He was breathing rapidly, with his 
nose elevated and in one corner, and sweating some on the 
neck and flanks. On my trying to pick up the foot the horse 
would put it down squarely on the floor, stand on it and jerk 
the other up. His temperature was 102.3 0 ; pulse 90; res¬ 
piration, 48. 
A blacksmith was called in, and after much hard work suc¬ 
ceeded in removing the shoe. The nail had entered just at 
the side of the frog, and an inch posterior to its apex. Synovia 
was flowing freely, accompanied with an abundance of rather 
thin, light-colored pus. 
I ran my probe in a little ways, but not to the bottom of 
the wound; found the nail had taken an inward direction 
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toward the median line of the foot. 
I had the horn removed from half of the frog, the bar re¬ 
moved as much as possible, and the sole well thinned. I then 
