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 . ce. Inflammation and suppuration arethus sometimes induced in the heels, and matter breaks out at thecoronet. In this case the whole of the affected heel must beremoved, even the crust of the heel and the bar ; and when thepart has been well soaked with a poultice, that
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 . ce. Inflammation and suppuration arethus sometimes induced in the heels, and matter breaks out at thecoronet. In this case the whole of the affected heel must beremoved, even the crust of the heel and the bar ; and when thepart has been well soaked with a poultice, that is, after a few days,it may be dressed with tar ointment, and about a week after it hasbeen thus dressed, the horse should be turned to grass withoutshoes. Weak Heels. If from any cause there has been much fever in the feet forsome time in consequence of being driven on hard roads, or beingpartially foundered, there will be diminished supply of horn, sothat the wall will not only grow slower but thinner. Sec refer-ence to inflammation and Figs. 505 and 50G, on page * Formulas for these prescriptions will be found among miscellaneous recipes. t According to scientific authority, ordinary inflammation of the horn-secretingBurfaces gives a greater cell proliferation in general; but when inflammation ap- SHOEING. 701. Fig. 542.—The foot as it appeared. Sometimes the heels are cut down so closely that should theshoe work loose, and wear or break down the quarters, it wouldbe easy to pro-duce a weak, lowcondition of theheels. This maycavise a great dealof trouble, on ac-count of the slow-ness with whichthe horn grows tosupply the in-creased morbid con-dition of inflam-mation also pro-duces anothervery marked ef-fect, namely, that of separating the wall from the sole, or whatis termed becoming shelly. Sometimes, if the shoes are badly fitted and made too wideat the heels (as explainedunder the head of Con-traction), they will sooncause a weak, bad condi-tion of the
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