. The horse's foot and its diseases . thers may be put towork, and receive poultices only when at rest, ormay be turned into damp fields. The shoe rarely 13(5 needs changing during the treatment, which lastsabout a month. This mode of opening the heels isespecially pracliicable and of easy application, andhas the advantage of allowing the use of the horse,whose foot is as well protected as with the ordinaryshoe. It becomes indispensable when the diseasehas been of long continuance and is accompaniedwith much lameness. It is liable to butone contra-indication, and that is when the foot is not s
. The horse's foot and its diseases . thers may be put towork, and receive poultices only when at rest, ormay be turned into damp fields. The shoe rarely 13(5 needs changing during the treatment, which lastsabout a month. This mode of opening the heels isespecially pracliicable and of easy application, andhas the advantage of allowing the use of the horse,whose foot is as well protected as with the ordinaryshoe. It becomes indispensable when the diseasehas been of long continuance and is accompaniedwith much lameness. It is liable to butone contra-indication, and that is when the foot is not sufficientlystrong to hold it, by reason of the heels having beenpared down excessively. It has been tested for along time, not only by the Defays, Senior and Junior,but by many others. H. Bouley, m France, withHartmann and Mayer in Germany, recommend it asan excellent curative treatment. We must again mention the simple and lightdesencasteleur of Jovard, (fig. 23) which is as power-ful as that of Defays. It is composed exclusively of. :vh or a double vice, with opposite threads, openingclosing two strong claws, which are applied upon theinternal borders of the branches of the shoe ; a rodof iron is introduced in the holes of the head of thevice and puts the instrument in motion. It may be said, that on general principles, it ispreferable to treat hoof-bound by the use of dilating 137 shoes than to resort to the bloody operations recom-mended m earlier times. It is these that Brognierrecommended highly for the removal of one or twoquarters of the wall, with an appropriate Bouley, however, believes that it would be wrongto discard these operations entirely; he believesthat there are conditions where they become neces-sary, and where they furnish better and quickerresults than the others referred to. We cannot overlook the treatment recommendedby Barthelemy, which consists in the thinning firstwith the rasp, then with the drawing knife, of thebars, in their whole lengt
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