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siderable time for the vessels to recover their tonicity ; it will also 
be necessary to continue for some time, in a modified form, the 
same principle of shoeing. Whenever I have a case near home I 
endeavour to get it to my own stables, otherwise there is a danger 
of the instructions not being fully carried out. To this treatment 
I should have recourse, even if I knew that the horse had done a 
hundred-mile journey the day before. In cases arising from 
metastasis it is necessary to be careful as regards the physicing. 
Before acquiring my present mode of treatment I had tried general 
and local bleeding, frog setons, hot and cold fomentations, hot and 
cold foot-bath, with and without the use of slings; I have also kept 
the animal down with the hobbles on, and used poultices of various 
sorts, with a variety of other modes of treatment, without any 
satisfactory result. Under my present system the only question is 
of being called in before any great alteration of structure has taken 
place. I have had several cases recover where separation had 
proceeded so far as to allow my finger to be passed in at the coronet 
for a considerable space, yet sloughing of the whole hoof did not 
take place, and the feet ultimately became sutficiently sound to 
enable the horses to work free from lameness. 
Two years since, I was called to two neglected cases, one a fat, 
heavy waggon-horse, the other a fly-horse; in both fore feet of the 
waggon-horse the toe of the coffin-bone could be seen and felt; 
after a very short course of treatment the horse was put to work in 
a waggon drawing wheat and flour on the road, where he has 
continued to work constantly up to this day free from lameness ; 
and as I have had the horse brought here to-day for your inspection, 
you will have an opportunity of seeing his feet, which are gradually 
recovering their natural shape. In the case of the fly-horse I 
could also see and feel the coffin-bone in one foot; that case also 
recovered, and the horse has been doing regular fly work up to the 
present date. A horse may have the soles of his foot somewhat 
sunken, yet by attention and good shoeing they may in tirne quite 
recover their natural shape. In bad cases of seedy foot it is often 
necessary to take off nearly the whole of the wall; in such cases it 
is very common to find the sole dropped or sunken, yet after the 
new hoof has grown down, the foot-bone has regained its natural 
position. I have for many years past noticed that feet under good 
management regain their natural shape in other cases besides seedy 
disease, although it is a generally received opinion that when soles 
are once dropped they must ever remain so. 
At the conclusion of the essay a spirited discussion took place. 
Mr. J. C. Broad made some lengthy remarks on the very unde¬ 
cided pathology of the disease, but he thought, as the treatment 
advocated by his brother was hitherto untried, that the arguments 
would be chieflv directed to that portion of the essay. 
Mr. JVarne Raddall, in commenting upon the remedial measures 
to be adopted, said that he could but differ from the essayist as to 
the practicability of such treatment as that recommended, in all 
