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The figure represents a Lateral View of a Foot afflicted with Chronic 

 Laniinitis. 



fore feet for some months. The gait of the animal clearly indicated the 

 nature of his disease. The shoes were removed and the feet cleaned out, 

 when both soles were found to be convex downwards. This was a pronounced 

 case of pumiced foot, and it had been a slow subacute form of laminitis, 

 resulting in descent of the sole. Such feet should be shod with round, 

 stout, broad-webbed bar shoes. 



The above picture is a section of a pumiced foot, showing (A) the 

 coffin bone descending, and (B) the convex sole. This is the intermediary 

 stage. In still more advanced stages, the hoof grows more forward, as 

 shown in the first picture, and the end of the coffin-bone becomes bent forward, 

 and the sole becomes elongated and flattened. (After Signol). 



This figure shows the third (advanced) stage of Pumiced Foot. 



