An essay on the canker and corns of horses' feet / [Bracy Clark].

  • Clark, Bracy, 1771-1860
Date:
1822
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Credit: An essay on the canker and corns of horses' feet / [Bracy Clark]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hunter. The above remedies also may be sometimes changed for each other with advantage, as the long continued application of one thing occasions it to lose its effect; and one agrees best with one subject, another with another, for which there can be no rule laid down. By pursuing the above means steadily and uniformly for about nine months, the above tedious and desperate case was cured, and every part of the foot covered with horn: the horse was then turned to grass to encourage the more rapid growth of the horn. On his return from grass he was put to work, but suddenly died in a few months after of a liver complaint, which afforded an opportunity we had much sought for, of examining the condition of the coffin-bone after a long existence of this complaint, and also whether nature would restore the lost foliated substance of the hoof; and on examination, the foliated horn had been in a great measure repaired, and was growing down quite perfect; having covered two-thirds of the inside of the hoof where the canker had existed, and where it terminated, there was seen a smooth sort of cartilaginous surface on the inside of the hoof, and a similar one at- tached to the foot, so that these laid in contact with each other without the processes. The sole which is less richly organized in its structure than the wall of the hoof, had no perceptible difference from the original sole. If however the coronary ring and origin of the Podophylla had been destroyed, we should doubt in that case the possibility of their reproduction; but in this instance, the coronary ring and cutidura had been carefully pre- served. The coffin-bone had suffered greatly by the disease, being considerably diminished on the side on which the sore had existed, and was become very porous, rough, and uneven; on its upper part near the coronary ring a rough elevation of bone had been thrown out, of the size of a pea, such as is deposited in splints and spavins, being whiter and of not so dense a texture as the natural bone. The channel of the artery had also a thin white osseous deposit running to the inside of the heels of the coffin-bone, even where no sore had existed.