iv. 



Microscopic Anatomy of .... 61 



The Plantar Arteries, Description of 62 



The Plantar Capillaries 64 



Physiological Facts 65 



Veins 66 



Microfcopic Anatomy of 66 



Anatomical Arrangement Described 68 



Veins of the Foot Have No Valves. . . . 67 



The Reason Why 68 



Lymphatics of the Foot 69 



Scavengers or Sanatory Agents 70 



Lymphatic Glands 71 



Nerves 7 1 



General Remarks Upon Nervous System 71 



Nerves of the Foot 72 



Distributive Arrangement of 72 



Is the Equine Foot an Organ of Special 



Sensation ? 73 



Prima Facie Reasons 74 



Analogical Argument 74 



An Objection Anticipated 75 



Experientia Docet 75 



Relative Sensibility of the Equine Foot . 76 



Causes of Impaired Action 76 



Sub-acute Laminitis 77 



Acute Laminitis 77 



General Causes — Diverse Effects . . 78 



Injuries from Nailing on the Shoe 78 



Source of Pain in the Foot 79 



External Sources of Pain in the Foot 80 



Muscular Spasms, or Cramp 80 



Non-Inflammatory Affections 89 



The " Ragged Edge " 80 



Possible Cause of Stringhalt 81 



Secreting Structures of the Foot — Par- 

 ticularized 82 



" Ample Room and Verge Enough " 82 



Constitution of Secreting Villi 83 



Fluid Elements of the Foot Particularized 83 



Physical Properties of the Blood 83 



Important Physiological Facts 83 



Red and White Blood-Cells 84 



Chemico-vital Changes in the Blood .... 84 



Judicious Mechanical Expansion 85 



The " No-Contraction and Non-Expan- 

 sion Heresies 86 



Preliminary Remarks 86 



Facts versus Theories 87 



Contraction as a Morbid Condition 88 



The Reviewer Reviewed 8S 



Age not the Gage of Experience 89 



11 Be Just and Fear Not " 89 



Essence of Gamgee 89 



1 he Case Stated 90 



An Important Omission Supplied 91 



" Language the Key to the Sciences "... 91 



Authorized Definitions 92 



What Does Atrophy Mean ? 92 



Value of the Word Atrophy 93 



Facts versus Fallacies 93 



Varieties of Feet — How Produced 94 



Effects of Dry Atmosphere 94 



Varieties and Effects of Contraction 95 



The Invariable Cause of Quarter-Crack. 95 

 The Diseases of the Foot of the Horse — 

 Contraction — Symptoms and Treat- 

 ment 97 



Positive and Negative Evidence 97 



Preparation of the Foot 98 



Form 99 



The Best Kind of Shoe 100 



Nail-holes and Nailing 101 



Acute Laminitis — Acute Rheumatism — 

 Acute Founder— Proximate Causes 



of. 103 



Symptoms and Treatment 102 



A Puzzling Problem 104 



The Cure, " That is the Question " io 4 



Octogenarian Veterinarians 104 



The Kind of Reception 105 



Special Points in Shoeing for Laminitis. . 105 



Broad's Laminitis Shoe 106 



A Point of Importance 106 



The Rolling Motion Expedient 106 



Depletion, When Desirable 107 



Constitutional Treatment 107 



Chronic Laminitis — Chronic Founder — 



Pumiced Foot 108 



Authorized Errors Combated 108 



Support the Sole 108 



"Stubborn Facts" versus "High Author- 

 ity" 109 



A Demonstrable Fact 109 



The Why and the Wherefore 109 



Common-Sense Shoeing the Desideratum no 



How to shoe the Pumiced Foot no 



Navicular Disease — Causes and Symp- 

 toms in 



Rheumatic Symptoms 112 



Treatment 113 



Ringbone — Etiology and Pathology 113 



Treatment 113 



Sidebones — Ossification of the Lateral 



Cartilages— Etiology and Pathology. 114 



Treatment 115 



Corn — Causes and Symptoms 115 



The Old Theory 116 



The Writer's Theory 115 



