29S FOUNDER IN THE FEET. 



Caases of this Complaint. 



CHAP. LXIII. 



FOUNDER IN THE FEET. 



This disorder is superficially understood by 

 most persons, and is in general called tlie chest* 

 founder^ though it is a query whether such a dis- 

 order ever existed. It is very common to hear of 

 horses that are foundered in the feet ; but, I be- 

 lieve, it never did exist in the chest. 



Founder in the feet arises from different causes; 

 as, taking cold after violent exercise, or by drinking 

 cold water, and riding into ponds when overheated. 

 Thus perspiration is checked, and an inflammatory 

 fever is produced, which in general terminates in 

 the horse's feet, and produces this disease. The 

 founder in the feet is sometimes entirely confined 

 to that part, and is occasioned by hard riding on 

 stony, or hard roads, and appears to increase upon 

 them in an insensible way. This disease is easily 



