26rf INFLAMMATION OF THE LAMINJE. 



warrant the loss of the services, the feet should be 

 treated as is proposed for brittle hoofs, the stall of the 

 stable being at the same time avoided. The suppling 

 liniment for the feet (Recipe No. 57, p. 260) should be 

 daily used, and an unfettered shoe (a shoe nailed on 

 the outside and with only one nail beyond the toe on 

 the inside) should be applied. This shoe will be suf- 

 ficiently secure under any moderate work that should 

 in ordinary cases be required from such a nag, and 

 will leave the inside quarters at liberty to expand. 



The shoe with a joint at the toe is worse than use- 

 less; for the stress on every nail soon breaks away 

 the lower part of the crust from the foot. The shoe 

 with a clip at each heel, to prevent its wiring in, is 

 also pernicious ; for the process of contraction will 

 still go on, and the clip will eat into the foot, and be 

 a source of the most frightful corns. More injurious 

 still were those screws by which it was attempted 

 mechanically to force the heels asunder. Nature 



rebels against this violence ; inflammation is ex- 

 es ' 



cited tenfold greater than that the screws were in- 

 tended to remove. In the work contraction is has- 

 tened, or, if the heel yields for a while to the 

 force which is used, it necessarily does so at the ex- 

 pense of some lesion within, which announces itself 

 by desperate lameness. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LAMINiE, OR FEVER 

 IN THE FEET. 



Proceeding to the diseases of the parts immediately 

 within the hoot, " Inflammation of the Laminee " first 

 presents itself. 



