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In inflammation of the bowels, for example, it may be foment- 

 ed with flannels wrung out in a thin mixture of slippery elm. 



Foot. (See part first.) 



Foot Rot. This name is applied to a disease in the feet 

 of sheep. This disease often happens to such as are fed in low 

 meadows, or where the grass holds the frost or cold dews for 

 a considerable time. Probably a foul habit of body may be 

 a predisposing cause. In the treatment of foot rot, we 

 should endeavor to find out the cause, or causes, of the dis- 

 order, and change the food or location of the sheep. If the 

 disease is spread under the horny covering, all the superfluous 

 horn should be carefully pared away, so that the dressing 

 may be applied to the whole of the affected parts. The 

 dressing is composed of powdered lobelia, formed to the con- 

 sistence of paste, with honey. 



Foul Feeders. Horses are so named that have depraved 

 or vitiated appetites, eating foul litter and earth from the 

 ground. 



Founder. A term expressive of the different forms of 

 rheumatism in the horse. Veterinary writers describe three 

 different forms of this disease, viz., founder of the body, 

 chest, and feet. This is one and the same disease, only locat- 

 ed in different parts, and may arise from the same general 

 causes ; which consist in chilling the animal when exhausted, 

 by which means the perspiration is obstructed, by much 

 fatigue, and by violent and long-continued exertion : ex- 

 posing the animal to cold wind or rain, or washing his 

 legs and thighs, and sometimes his body, is often the cause 

 of founder. Dr. White calls "founder a term expressive of 

 the ruined state of the horse." And well he might call it 

 " ruined." How many thousand animals have been ruined, 

 not by the disease, but by the treatment! Here" is a specimen 

 of it. Dr. White says, " The horse was bled before I saw 

 him : five quarts of blood were taken off. I desired he might 

 be bled again, when half a pailful more was abstracted. In 

 less than an hour I saw him again, and, finding that he was 

 not relieved, took another half pailful, amounting in all to 



