How to Buy a Horse: Containing Instructions for the Choice Or Rejection of a Horse from His Shape, Appearance, Action, Soundness, Or Defects ... To which are Added Observations on the First Treatment of Some Injuries and Diseases ...

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Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1840 - Всего страниц: 250
 

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Стр. 164 - ... or if possible limiting, those motions which Nature has assigned to them, and which, when once lost, are seldom if ever regained. For the purpose of preserving as long as possible the pliable state of the hoofs, and preventing them from cracking, they should be brushed over every second or third day with a mixture of equal weights of tar and tallow melted together, and the soles should be stopped every night with soft cow-dung, which should be picked out when dry. Farm-servants will never pay...
Стр. 83 - The principal seat of the injury has been said to exist in the spinal marrow, and there is no reason why such should not be the case...

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