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

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recommended by Mr. Broad, of Star-street, Edgware-
road, London, upwards of thirty years ago, and practised
by him and his brother at Bath with success up to the
present time. It consists in cutting a notch with a
drawing-knife, about half an inch from each side of the
crack as near the coronet as possible, and about a quarter
of an inch deep, sufficiently large to allow the embedding
of the head of small horse nails. If the crack is long,
cut two others an inch lower down, then have a nail
prepared in the ordinary way, with the exception that
they are pointed on the reverse side to prevent puncturing
the quick, a case of which I never had. Never make
a hole with a pricker or bore it with a redhot wire.
Before using, the nails are put into a vice and the head
hammered to form a shoulder, to prevent it being driven
too far into the wall and breaking out the hold. After
being driven carefully through the notches, a long clinch
is left, the crack is then drawn closely together with the
pincers, and all made smooth with the rasp to prevent
the nails being trodden out. Then with the use of the
bar-shoe, and a constant application of cold water with
a linen bandage round the coronet, the hoof will soon
grow sound, and in course of time grow out. Before
quitting the subject of diseases of the foot of the horse,
there is yet one more, no better than the others I have
described, but, if possible, it is worse. Those of my
readers who have had the misfortune to have a horse
lame with
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will be able to endorse my remarks, as no man is
anxious to have a second case after experiencing the