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only in degree, from a disease contracted at the 

 time of, or subsequent to, the sale ? In the case 

 of recent injury, not chronic, the animal may como 

 into the stable, looking fresh, and feed well ; the 

 hoofs will appear of the proper size and shape, and 

 everything appear right until the morning after 

 the new horse has come home; it will then be 

 found with staring coat and eyes, resting the 

 weight of the body on the heels of the feet and 

 refusing food ; or, probably, the animal will be Symptoms 

 lymg down, especially if in a horse box, its sides nitis. 

 will be heaving as if the wind was touched, and to 

 the most inexperienced eye the horse will appear 

 ill. These symptoms may also occur in a horse 

 who has long had chronic laminitis; but there will 

 generally be this great difference — the hoofs of a 

 horse with chronic fever in the feet never remain 

 shapely and open, but become contracted and nar- 

 row ; often too, a horse with chronic foot fever has 

 a bad thrush, or discharge from the centre, or split 

 in the frog of the foot. Some hunters suffer after 

 every hard day, more or less, from fever in the 

 foot. An excellent Irish horse was ridden a long 

 run with hounds, and the end of the run found 

 horse and rider twenty-five miles from home. The 

 horse, formerly ridden by a whip, came home at 

 his own pace, which was the jog-trot at Avhich 

 liounds like to travel on the roads. On coming 

 through the lodge of the owner, the animal ap- 

 peared so fresh and well that it made a playful 



