with one having stiff heels. Care must
be taken to reset the shoe before the foot has grown too long, else the
shoe will no longer rest on the wall, but on the sole and bar.

I believe in cutting moist corns out. If there is inflammation, cold
baths and poultices should be used; when the horn is well softened and
the fever allayed, pare out the diseased horn, lightly cauterize the
soft tissues beneath, and poultice the foot for two or three days. When
the granulations look red, dress the wound with oakum balls saturated in
a weak solution of tincture of aloes or spirits of camphor and apply a
roller bandage. Change the dressing every two or three days until a
firm, healthy layer of new horn covers the wound, when the shoe may be
put on, as in dry corn, and the patient returned to work.

In suppurative corns the loosened horn must be removed, so that the pus
may freely escape. If the pus has worked a passage to the coronary band
and escapes from an opening between the band and hoof, an opening must
be made on the sole, and cold baths made astringent with a little
sulphate of iron or copper are to be used for a day or two. When the
discharge becomes healthy, the fistulous tracts may be injected daily
with a weak solution of bichlorid of mercury, nitrate of silver, etc.,
and the foot dressed as after operation for moist corns. When
complications arise, the treatment must be varied to meet the
indications; if gangrene of the lateral cartilage takes place it must be
treated as directed under the head of cartilaginous quittor; if the
velvety tissue is gangrenous, it must be cut away; if the coffin bone is
necrosed, it must be scraped, and the resulting wounds treated on
general principles. After any of the operations for corns have been
performed, in which the soft tissues have been laid bare, it is best to
protect the foot by a sole of soft leather set beneath the shoe when the
animal is returned to work. Only in rare instances are the complications
of corns so serious as to destroy the life or usefulness of the patient.
It is the wide, flat foot with low heels and thin wall which is most
liable to resist all efforts toward effecting a complete cure.

BRUISE OF THE FROG.

When the frog is severely bruised the injury is followed by suppuration
beneath the horn, and at times by partial gangrene of the plantar
cushion.

_Causes._--A bruise of the frog generally happens from stepping on a
rough stone or other hard object