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

in the Stable, Field, and on the Road. 77
small glass syringe, and the wound will heal up
unsightly, often leaving a big knee, and many times a
stiff joint. After the wound has healed, the knee should
be blistered with biniodide of mercury to reduce the
gangrenous lump which is sure to form. All horses that
have cut their knees deep enough to allow the synovia
to escape are never to be trusted again, as they are sure
to fall sooner or later. I now come to a very common
and also a very trobblesome complaint, known as
LAMINITES,
or fever in the feet. That my readers may
thoroughly understand this complaint, it will be
necessary that I should give a description of the foot of
the horse to show the beautiful handiwork of the Creator,
and the ignorance of man, who often look upon the foot
of the horse as a solid block of horn, and treats it ac-
cordingly. The formation of the foot of the horse fits
him above all other animals, except the ass, for the
service of man. In short, had the foot of the horse been
cleft, it would have been incapacitated from many of the
useful departments of its employment, and a correct
knowledge of the structures of every part of the foot is
indispensably necessary to render us scientific overseers
of the farrier's art. The foot externally is composed
of the crust, the sole, the bars, and the frog. The
crust is that portion which reaches from the
termination of the hair to the ground, its greatest
depth and thickness is in front, and denominated the
toe. It is more shallow at the sides, termed the
quarters, and still less behind, termed the heel. In a