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of the City Health Commissioner, who in turn should collab¬ 
orate with the State officers in their efforts to exterminate the 
disease. 
“ CORNS.” 
By Theodore A. Keller, D. V. S., New York City, 
Read before the June Meeting of the Veterinary Medical Association of New York 
County. 
A few remarks concerning this trouble of the horse’s foot 
will probably be useful to some of the members present. 
Corns generally make their appearance in the inner heel, 
within the bar and crust at or near their junction. We find that 
a great number of horses are afflicted in this way ; and it is sup¬ 
posed that an imperfect system of shoeing has more to do with 
the production of corns than anything else. 
In their acute stage corns generally cause some degree of 
tenderness, though not amounting to actual lameness. If not 
attended to at this period, the horse soon becomes lame ; and 
when the shoe is removed for examination, the horny matter in 
the pafts described will be found, upon scraping off the exterior 
surface, of a dark red color, to a greater or lesser extent, accord¬ 
ing to the length of time it has existed, or rather to the degree 
of injury the sensitive parts have sustained. If the shoe be not 
removed at this stage, its continued pressure on the tender parts, 
or corn, will at length cause pus to form, which, finding no vent 
beneath, ascends to the coronet, where it breaks out. Even 
this is sometimes mistaken for a tread, or blow from the other 
foot, while the real cause is lost sight of. 
In the treatment of corns in their recent state, or before sup¬ 
puration has taken place, the method generally adopted is to 
pare out the red parts, or what is termed the corn, and so con¬ 
trive the shoe that, when applied to the foot, it may have no 
bearing on the tender part. This in slight cases generally 
affords temporary relief, and enables the horse to go to work 
again ; but in a short time, however, the horse’s weight causes 
