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CHRONIC LAMINITIS; CHRONIC FOUNDER; 



PUMICED FOOT. 



AUTHORIZED ERRORS COMBATED. 



There is no material difference in the pathological conditions 

 implied by these terms. The two first are the technical and 

 common designations for the same conditions. The third ex- 

 presses an external characteristic of the sole of the foot which 

 in most cases is the result of an acute attack of laminitis, or it 

 may be produced by the gradual displacement and descent of 

 the sole and coffin-bone without the intervention of any very 

 active inflammatory, or other morbid process, whereby the 

 laminal attachments have become preternaturally elongated, 

 ewakened, and eventually separated in the anterior region of 

 the foot. In either case it is the legitimate product of the 

 never -to-be-sufficiently-deprecated process of sole-gouging, frog- 

 paring, and all-wall-and-no-sole-supporting errors, in preparing 

 and applying the shoe to the foot. 



SUPPORT THE SOLE. 



All feet are liable to this morbid condition as long as these 

 errors dominate the practice of horse-shoeing, and, of course, 

 the broad, squatty foot of the heavy, cart-breed variety, is pecu- 

 liarly liable to lameness from the foregoing causes. I can not, 

 however, conceive of any foot whatever being liable to it if the 

 sole is supported upwards, the frog allowed to press down- 

 wards and the quarters kept wide. This principle applied to 

 shoeing will prevent the flattest of feet from becoming convex 

 or bulging at the sole, whether applied before or after the 

 onslaught of laminitis. The smith can easily prevent it, and 

 the " doctor " may readily cure it. Nothing is easier for either 

 if the true principle of shoeing is adopted in one case, and a 

 rational rule of practice applied in the other. " Support the 

 Sole " should be equally the maxim of the smith and the doc- 

 tor. Superadded to this, in the mind of the latter should be. 

 force it back if it comes down. 



