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simple remedy for their restoration to soundness was withdrawal 

 of them from such exercises, or, rather, giving them lengthened 

 repose. 



So that "grogginess" had better have its meaning limited to the 

 lameness consequent on the actual presence of navicularthritis, or 

 some one or other of its sequelcB, simultaneously in both fore feet ; 

 and then, so understood, it becomes plainly distinguishable both 

 imm founder and shoulder-shook or " shotten :" it being now agreed 

 among veterinarians, both of the old and new school, that founder 

 is but another name for laminitis or fever in the feet. 



It rarely happens, as I stated before, that a horse is attacked 

 for the first time with navicularthritis in both feet. Usually, but 

 one foot is attacked, and to that foot the disease confines itself; 

 and in the same foot still, generally speaking, relapses, should 

 it return after disappearing ; and it will do this for a second, a 

 third, a fourth, and even a fifth time ; though, in other cases, after 

 a second or third relapse the fellow foot will fail; and now the 

 foundation stone may be said to be laid for a state of groggy 

 lameness. 



In fact, it is evidently the pointing or resting of the lame foot 

 in the stable, and the favouring of it while out, that, by imposing 

 more weight and work upon the sound foot, causes the latter in 

 the course of time to fail. For example, a horse will experience 

 two or three or four attacks of lameness in the same foot. His 

 owner, wearied by the tedious protraction of the case, and impa- 

 tient at the expense of keeping so useless a servant, either sum- 

 marily disposes of him, or, in a fit of vexation at the recurrence of 

 lameness after so much rest and treatment, resolves to work him 

 "lame or sound." Sold or unsold, therefore, the lame horse, 

 instead of being laid up afresh, suflferer as he is, is kept at work, 

 going sometimes quite lame, at other times — after rest perhaps — not 

 so lame, until at length he begins to step short likewise with the 

 sound limb, and by degrees proves lame in that also : in the end 

 becoming as lame in one foot as in the other, or what dealers call 

 " groggy." 



In horses who are taken that care of, that their lameness is at- 

 tended to and treated the moment it is perceived, this double dis- 



