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with commentaries, all the treatments recommended against these 
numerous diseases. But this would have more an historical in¬ 
terest than a true practical benefit. If, indeed, one looks over 
the publications on that subject, he would be surprised at the 
number and varieties of these treatments. Specially would this 
be in relation to the treatment of hoof-bound proper and of quar¬ 
ter-crack, where the proposed remedies—all more or less certain 
—are so numerous and varied. For instance, for quarter-crack 
alone we know of no less than fifteen different modes, from the 
putty of Defay’s and the inoffensive oil of cade, to the lateral fis¬ 
sures, which, by the way, have no other effects than to add two 
new cracks to the one already existing, and thus facilitate the 
movement of contraction. For the hoof-bound proper, there is 
a full therapeutical arsenal. 
All of which shows well the difference of opinions as to the 
nature of these diseases; evidently, if that was well decided, me¬ 
thods of treatment entirely contradictory to each other would not 
have been recommended. 
A.—GENERAL INDICATIONS. 
The art of the liorse-shoer is to try to L’art du mardchal doit se proposer 
presetve the hoof in its integrity of pour but a atteiudre de conserver an 
form, so essential to that of itsfunction. sabot l’intdgritd de sa forme si essen- 
tibllement lid it celle de sa fonction.— 
H. Boulry. 
The opinion which we have expressed in these pages gives an 
idea of the solution, to which we will give the preference. Thus, 
we put aside, from principle, all the indications which have not 
foi objection to lender to the plantar cushion its vital properties, 
resting our opinion upon the idea that the participation of the 
frog at rest is the condition, sine qud noti, of the integrity of the 
foot. 
Two indications rest naturally on our thesis: 1. Prevent the 
atrophy of the plantar cushion; 2. Render to that organ its vita¬ 
lity, if already atrophied. 
The preservative by excellence , that which is above all others, 
