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returning to work in about four weeks. The cases occurred 
during the time that there were a large number of horses suf¬ 
fering from the same condition during the winter. As spring 
advanced the number of animals attacked gradually decreased 
and the trouble ended before the hot weather came on. 
The number of horses suffering from this foot disease in my 
regiment at the end of the rainy season in November was : 
Troop I, ten ; Troop L, ten ; Troop K, five ; Troop M, nine, 
band horses, two ; transportation animals at post, six ; one of 
my own saddle horses. Since that time various other cases 
have occurred. 
Troop I has been stationed here all the time and Troop K 
is stationed only six miles from here, so that I have been able 
to keep tally on those horses. Troop L was ordered away, and, 
although I operated on all diseased feet before they left, reports 
from them are not altogether satisfactory. Troop M I have 
seen only once ; they are in charge of a civilian veterinarian, 
being too far away for me to visit often. The veterinarian in 
charge reports that the disease is not growing rapidly less. The 
band horses and transportation animals are of course always here. 
Among the various treatments that have been used by the 
troop farriers and the quartermaster’s veterinarian stationed at 
this post and myself, are : 
(1) Introduction of crystals of blue vitriol into sinuses. 
(2) Nitrate of silver (stick). 
(3) Poultice of flaxseed'or wet dressings of corrosive subli¬ 
mate. 
(4) Injections of creolin or solutions of creolin. 
(5) Iodoform dressings. 
(6) Curetting and injecting of solutions of formalin, or so¬ 
lution of nitrate of silver. 
(7) Burning with round iron and introducing seton wiih 
exit through wall of hoof, about one inch from ground surface, 
and using corrosive sublimate solutions. 
(8) Denuding foot of horn from diseased portion, curetting, 
cauterizing and antiseptic dressings of iodoform, oakum, bandage. 
