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medicines take effect and give relief/ the animal should be mod- 

 erately exercised in three or four days, if it does not cause too 

 much pain. 



Laminitis, Chronic. This disease is more liable to attack 

 aged horses, but it may attack any horse. 



CAUSES. The causes are similar to those in Acute Lam- 

 initis. 



SYMPTOMS. The symptoms are somewhat similar to those of 

 an acute attack, but they are more obscure. There will be heat 

 in the feet, and the horse, when walking, goes in a kind of 

 stumbling gait, and endeavors to throw the weight on the heels, 

 and in attempting to do this the toe is thrown up and the heel 

 is thrown down, which gives the animal a very peculiar and 

 awkward appearance. Although there may not be much pain, 

 and the animal may work pretty well all the time, yet the 

 muscles of the chest waste away (if it is in the fore-feet), and 

 give rise to what is called chest founder, or it may terminate in 

 pumiced foot. However, there is no such a disease as chest 

 founder. 



TREATMENT. Treating this disease is very tedious, and not 

 very successful. Dissolve four to six drams of aloes in hot 

 water and give when cool. In most cases the shoe should be 

 taken off. and the outside of the hoof, at the heels, should be 

 rasped off; then poultice the feet, or stand them in a tub of 

 water, or it will do to stand the feet in wet clay. If clay is 

 used it should be pure and clean, and renewed when it becomes 

 filthy. After the heat and tenderness subside, apply a bar shoe, 

 which should be thinner at the heel than at the toe ; but if the 

 soreness continues, apply a cantharides blister around the top 

 of the hoof, but not in the hollow of the heel. (See Blisters.) 

 If it is in the spring of the year, turning him on a wet pasture 

 is of great benefit. 



Navicular Disease. Also called Navicularthritis and Coffin 

 Joint Lameness. This disease is situated in the joint inside of 

 the hoof. 



CAUSES. Hard and fast work. A very upright pastern is 

 more liable to it than the opposite, especially if the animal has 



