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the best di*ink for patients. When the season will 

 permit, two months' run at grass witl be serviceable. 



CHRONIC FOUNDER. 



The principal difference between this and the acute 

 divsease lies in the less activity of the attack and 

 inflammatory fever, and the indefinite duration of the 

 symptoms ; the lameness is not persistent, but goes off 

 after exercise, and returns again while the animal is at 

 rest 



The treatment should be similar to that recom- 

 mended for the acute disease— blood-letting, poultices, 

 fomentations, and blisters, and the last much sooner 

 and much more frequently than in the former disease. 



CRAMP. 



This is a sudden, involuntary, and painful spasm of 



a particular muscle. It occasionally attacks the 



muscles of organic life, but in its most common form 



only affects the hind extremities, where it is observed 



by the temporary lameness and stiffness it produces in 



tbe hai'dly worked horse, as he is first led out of the 

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