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duction of fever. In two hours the pulse was 

 reduced from one hundred to sixty. The animal 

 remained down all night. In the morning it got 

 up and ate, and under the above treatment made 

 a good recovery. The tub treatment is to be con- 

 demned as cruel, and the softening of the hoof 

 which it is used for can be accomplished much 

 better and quicker by the warm poultices and al- 

 lowing the horse to lie down. At the end of two 

 weeks, if the animal has been properly attended 

 to, it will be as sound as if the thing had never 

 happened. If there should be the least sign of 

 tenderness of the feet blister the coronets with 

 cantharides two drams, lard one ounce. After it 

 has been on for twenty-four hours wash it off 

 and turn the horse out to grass for a few weeks, 

 or put it into a loose box and keep the floor soft 

 with plenty of straw, or what is better, sawdust or 

 short shavings. 



Chronic Laminitis (Founder). — When a case of 

 acute laminitis is not properly treated it becomes 

 chronic. There is also chronic founder which 

 really never has been acute. For instance, a-horse 

 has been badly shod for some time, and the pres- 

 sure or weight of the body confined to the walls 

 on account of the sole being cut away, there will 

 be a little irritation set up in the sensitive laminae 

 and coronary band, causing a little derangement, 

 but not enough to produce lameness, but by de- 

 grees these parts become affected to such an ex- 

 tent as to cause a stiffness in moving, or eveu 

 lameness. 



