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before walking exercise is attempted. A month or two's 

 run at grass will be attended Avith much advantage alicr 

 founder. 



No disease is more to be dreaded than violent inflamma- 

 tion of the foot, as, even with the utmost attention to 

 remedy the complaint, very bad consequences result from 

 it. One of these of frequent occurrence is loss of the 

 hoof. The first symptom of this is the appearance of a 

 small separation between the coronet and the hoof. Great 

 attentieiii to this is necessary, as the horn thus sepa- 

 rated will never reunite with the parts beneath, but tliP 

 separation will continue to extend downwards, until entire 

 disunion is efiected and the hoof is ultimately lost. This 

 is a most serious affair ; for although a new hoof will be 

 formed, it will be not only smaller in size, but also thinner 

 and weaker than the iirst, and liable to be injured by any 

 kind of hard labour or rough roads. 



In the event of no smith being at hand when it is 

 ascertained that a horse has been seized with inflammation 

 of the foot, and if the proprietor or his groom are not 

 acquainted with the mode of paring down the hoof, then 

 it will be safer to bleed from the vein runnhig up the inside 

 of the leg, as it is better to take blood from the nearest 

 contiguous part to that which is affected, than not to do it 

 at all at an early stage of the complaint. Pressure shouhl 

 be applied above the part to be opened, thus differing from 

 blood-letting from the neck, which is always made below it. 



CHRONIC FOUNDER. 



Chronic founder is merely a conventional tena^ adopted 

 by farriers to express those changes which take place in the 

 foot of the horse iu disease brought on by bad shoeing or 

 raismanagemeut in some way or other. In fact, it is a word 



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