The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . seful:— 8 draclims Barbadoes aloes,1 fluid ounce liquor ammonia,Or, 2 fluid ounces spirits of turi^ the aloes with a little carbonate of soda, in nearly a quart ofwarm water, and add the other. THE FOOT. 941 Rub the belly well, and apply cloths wrung- out
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . seful:— 8 draclims Barbadoes aloes,1 fluid ounce liquor ammonia,Or, 2 fluid ounces spirits of turi^ the aloes with a little carbonate of soda, in nearly a quart ofwarm water, and add the other. THE FOOT. 941 Rub the belly well, and apply cloths wrung- out of boilingwater diligently to it. Give copious injections of soap andwater ; or a mild infusion of tobacco or tobacco-smoke. If norelief is e-iven in one or two hours, give at intervals of an hour,two drachms carbonate of ammonia, | ounce ginger (powdered),in gruel. Advantage will sometimes be found from giving copiousdrenches of fluids to liquify the contents of the stomach, andassist in removing it. The Foot.—Pkicking in Shoeing, Stepping on Nails, Glass, etc. The foot is made up of the coffin-bone, (os pedis,) the lowerend of the small pas-tern-bone ; (oscoro-nse,) and the navi-cular-bone (os navi-culare,) with the ten-don of the flexorpedis, which passesover the navicular-bone, and is insertedin the sole of the. Fig. -The liorse as he usually rests the footwhen lame. coffin-bone, a varietyof illustrations o fwhich I give. The surface of the coffin-bone is covered by lami-nae or thin plates, running from above downwards, fitting intocorresponding plates on the inner surface of the hoof. The sole isalso covered by a sensitive structure which is villous, that is,presenting elevations and depressions, which fit into reciprocalhorny villse on the sole of the hoof. At the back part of the solewe have the sensitive or fatty frog, covered in a similar man-ner by the horny frog. These, with the coronary ligament (whichoccupies the groove in the upper margin of the wall of
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