XXXIX. FOUNDER, CHRONIC LAMINITIS OR 

 DROPPED SOLE. 



There is only one way to shoe this kind for comfort to 

 the animal, and for an earning remuneration for the owner. 

 In founder or chronic laminitis, where the sole of feet are 

 dropped, caused by the displacement of the weight bear- 

 ing bones of the foot, fix the feet by lowering the quarters 

 and heels so as to get as much frog pressure as is possible, 

 without making the foot tender, and your foot is ready 

 for the shoe. A shoe for a dropped sole foot must be a 

 bar shoe, thick at the toe and thin at the heels, with a wide 

 thin bar to receive the frog pressure. To make a shoe to 

 suit this kind of diseased feet, use a piece of iron three- 

 quarters to one inch square according to the nature of the 

 disease and the weight of the horse, and in making the 

 shoes for foot founder leave all the thickness of the shoe at 

 the toe possible, and thin the shoe at the quarters and heels 

 to a quarter of an inch, have the bar wide and thin so as to 

 receive all the frog pressure possible, the thicker the toe of 

 shoe and thinner the quarters and bar at heels the better. 

 Concave or cup the shoe out so as not to get any sole pres- 

 sure. 



I will cite one case of this kind, the very worst in my 

 experience. A horse that weighed over 1400 pounds that 

 could scarcely stand on his feet, had been treated by dif- 

 ferent veterinary surgeons and shod several times and could 

 not keep the shoes on his feet and he was so sore that I 

 got wet with perspiration getting two nails in one shoe and 

 I had to stand him in a very soft place to do that. This 

 horse would lay down in the lot most all the time and eat 

 the grass from where he could reach it and then move to 

 where he could reach more, he was the most hopeless sub- 

 ject I ever came across. I shod him according to the in- 

 struction herein prescribed, and he trotted off with his tail 

 curled over his back like a colt. He was put to work the 



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