Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1876 — Nail in a Horse's Foot [ARTICLE]

Nail in a Horse's Foot

A neighbor of mine recently informed me that be had lost a most 'valuable horse by a casualty by no means uncommon. A knowledge of a simply remedy would have prevented this loss. The horse trod upon a nail which entered his foot Lameness followed, the nail was extracted, but lockjaw supervoned, resulting In death. An unfailing remedy in such cases is muriatic ateid. If, when a nail is frora a hbrse's foot, the foot should be held up and some juristic acid bo poured into. the Wound, neither lameness nor locklaw need be feared. Why the iron

should have the efltect which it frequently has, and the rationale of the above remedy, 1 am unable to explain; but of the certainty of counteraction of disease by this perfectly case application,! am well convinced.—Rural Home.