. Dr. Le Gear's stock book ... comprising a description of the general care, feeding and watering, stabling and breeding, and all the diseases and their treatment, of stock in Texas and the South ... Veterinary medicine. 230 Dr. LeGear's Stock Book. diseased it is verv hard to treat, as the trouble is located so deeply in the foot. The coronary band is situated just to the inside of the top of the wall of the hoof, and it is from it the wall grows. A brief description of the diseases and injuries of the foot will be found below. CONTRACTION, OE NARROW HEEL. Contraction is not of itself a disea
. Dr. Le Gear's stock book ... comprising a description of the general care, feeding and watering, stabling and breeding, and all the diseases and their treatment, of stock in Texas and the South ... Veterinary medicine. 230 Dr. LeGear's Stock Book. diseased it is verv hard to treat, as the trouble is located so deeply in the foot. The coronary band is situated just to the inside of the top of the wall of the hoof, and it is from it the wall grows. A brief description of the diseases and injuries of the foot will be found below. CONTRACTION, OE NARROW HEEL. Contraction is not of itself a disease, but the symptom of dis- ease. It is often called "narrow-heel," as the whole heel and frog waste away. Contraction is due to the atrophy or wasting away of the fatty frog and other vascular substances above the frog and within the heel. "When these substances waste away the walls at the heel gradually draw in and form contraction, or narrow-heel. It is generally brought on by coffin-joint lameness -or any fever in the heels. Improper shoeing, by cutting out the bars and frogs, and shoeing with high heel shoes, etc., are fre- quent causes of this trouble. Treatment.—Dilatation of the hoof by mechanical means (hoof expanders, Fig. 48) is practiced very little in this country to what it is in France. In many cases, no Sl^^lR^^i doubt, hoof expanders are found to be beneficial in contraction. But when the contracted feet have to be expanded, there is a far more simple and effective means of attaining that end in the foot itself. By lowering the walls at the heels, so as to re- store frog pressure, the latter speed- ily recovers its lost characteristics, and in a healthy condition gradu- ally and naturally accomplishes one of the very purposes for which nature placed it there. In some cases tips properly ap- plied and persisted in will cure contracted Fig. 48. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may h
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