The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

In the Stable, Field, and on the Road. 103
days, such torture, butchery, and sacrifice of property,
that I tried what I believed then the most rational mode
of procedure, and have been rewarded with great success.
The few cases of protracted and advanced disease, which
after due observation and trial I diagnose as incurable, I
advise to be put out of their miserable state." Such is
the opinion of Professor Gamgee upon this terrible disease.
We have still yet another complaint of the feet of the
horse, and though it has but a simple name, yet it is a
painful and troublesome disease. I am speaking of
CORNS,
And those of my readers who are troubled with them
can sympathise with the horse when it is afflicted with
corns. This disease in the foot of the horse has acquired
a name which but ill expresses its nature. It bears but
little affinity to corns of the human foot ; instead of
being hard as in the human subject they are thin and
very weak, and caused by pressure on the sole at the
angle of the bars of the feet, the horn becomes more
spongy and soft than at other parts, and it is so sensitive
that upon the slightest pressure the horse indicates that
he feels pain. When the foot becomes contracted, that
portion of the sole intervening between the external crust
which is wiring in, and the bars which oppose that con-
traction are squeezed very severely, which induces inflam-
mation, and hence it is that feet that are contracted
are almost alw T ays subjects that are afflicted with corns.
The effects of this pressure induce a small quantity of
extravasated blood, and the horn being secreted in less
quantities and being more spongy it has a tendency to