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with a stilty, stubby gait, are all symptoms of this disease; 

 if one notices a horse affected with this disease driven 

 on the street, which is later on stopped and tied, the 

 animal will be noticed to paw slightly with the affected 

 foot, in fact is really hunting a comfortable spot on 

 which to rest the foot so as to allow the coffin joint to be 

 flexed, he may even rest the heel on a stone. If both 

 feet are affected the gait is very short, he paddles, stubs 

 the toes, and if the pain is severe will lie down the 

 greater part of the time when in the stable; as a result 

 the muscles of the whole limb may waste, thus giving 

 rise to the condition termed "chest founder," the hoof 

 and coronet will also be narrower than usual. 



Treatment Give rest, blister the coronet and turn on 

 a soft pasture; if not cured get your veterinarian to put 

 in a frog seton, and if that fails, have him nerve the 

 animal, after which operation the feet will need daily 

 watching and care, although enabled to work without 

 lameness for a year or two after the operation. Have 

 the feet pared so as to throw slightly forward on the toe, 

 and apply a wide webbed shoe with a roll to the toe. 



Pricks in shoeing are not as common as they used to be, 

 the shoeing smiths being more careful than heretofore 

 and as a result of the various horseshoers' associations 

 studying the anatomy and physiology of the feet. 

 The cause may be, driving nails too close or in the wrong 

 direction, thus penetrating into or bearing on the quick, 

 the lameness and pain may not show for a day or even 

 for a couple of weeks, in the latter case pus is likely 

 forming. Some horses have thin walled hoofs and are 

 easily pricked; the nearer the heel the greater the dan- 



