An essay on the causes and cure of running frush in horses' feet / by Bracy Clark.

  • Clark, Bracy, 1771-1860.
Date:
1821
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Credit: An essay on the causes and cure of running frush in horses' feet / by Bracy Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Having- described the part diseased, and the way natural frusli is generated, I proceed to consider the secondary or acquired Frusli, which I have so called, because it is formed in feet that have been previously well closed and consolidated in this part; the secondary frush is usually g-enerated by the mal-practices of the shoeing- smiths, in cutting away the horn of the frog- and leaving- it often in so weak a state, as to have even barely a covering of horn, and sometimes they cut it so unmercifully that the blood flows, and then the first stone it encounters is sufficient to break it up and rupture it, when wet and dirt insinuate themselves, and a general undermining, and ulcera- tion of these parts of the foot ensue, with a tenderness, endangering both the horse and rider; and then you will perhaps be told, that it is a cankered foot, and adding* with an accent which implores your acquiescence and commendation of his measures, “ that in spite of all his care and trouble with the foot, nothing could save it,” though if simply let alone nothing- would have ailed it, so injurious is ill-judged officiousness, that there is merit in knowing how to let well alone. - As the ruptured Frog-stay gradually rots away, in its place is presented an ugly longitudinal slit or fissure, discharging- a stinking- watery humor, or sometimes pus, and the two sides of the cavity in this case meet each other somewhat as two toes would do, if their outer skin were removed, and pressed and rubbed against each other produce excessive tenderness.* Of the Cure. As the disease consists in the rupture and destruc- tion of the Frog-stay, so the cure will consist in restoring again and rendering solid and entire this necessary part. The first aim or in- * The French term for this disease is Fourchette pourrie, and Fourchette echavffee, the latter, according to the definition given in The Dlctionaire Encylopedique, is used when the frog is very badly undermined, p. 39, Art. Medecinc Vetcrinaire; the ingenious writer lias however, by a contre sens (which is no uncommon thing with the French) exactly reversed the statement, of my opinion of this disease.