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toms, according to the stage of the disease. Fortunately this disease is rarely- 

 met with, but it is a fruitful cause of permanent lameness. It is many 

 times attributed to some difhculty in the shoulder. 



Cause.— Hard work upon pavements causing slight inflammation which 

 is neglected, and the horse kept at work so that the inflammation continues 

 until it ends in ulceration. 



Symptoms are obscure and yet very much like many of the sjTiiptoms 

 of other diseases of the feet and legs and shoulders. It is determined 

 chiefly by an undue amount of heat in the foot, and by the fact that no 

 disease can be found elsewhere or of a different character. 



Treatment. — Raise the foot and pour Kendall's Spavin Cure on to the 

 frog and the back part of the foot and heel, and rub it well up into the hair, 

 repeating this process two or three times a day, for two or three weeks, or 

 more, if necessary. In bad cases, if the lameness does not subside in two or 

 three weeks, we would recommend to blister as recommended for ring-bone, 

 and follow up with the use of Kendall's Spavin Cure. The above treatment 

 lias proved to be the most satisfactory of any treatment known to us. 



Poultices sometimes relieve the pain. 



FOUNDER. {Laminitis.) — This disease is inflammation of the sensitive 

 laminae of the foot, of which there are two kinds, acute and chronic, the 

 latter being a continuation of the former. The acute form is invariably 

 cured, if properly treated, but the chronic form is generally considered 

 incurable ; it can be relieved very much, but the feet are always afterwards 

 sore and tender in front. 



Cause. — Allowing to drink cold water, when overheated and tired from 

 overwork, standing in the cold air (or where the wind will strike the horse) 

 while warm, driving through a river while warm, long and hard drives 

 over dry roads, etc. 



Symptoms. — The horse will stand upon his heels, with fore feet and legs 

 stretched out as far as he can get them so as to throw the weight off as much 

 as possible ; and he can scarcely be made to move. The horse has 

 fever and considerable constitutional disturbance, in the acute form of the 

 •disease. 



Treatment {of acute founder.)— Q'we the horse a good bedding of straw, 

 in a large, well ventilated stall, so as to encourage him to lie down, which, 

 by removing the weight from the inflamed parts, will relieve his sufferings 

 very much and assist in hastening the cure. As soon as his bed is fixed, give 

 him twenty drops of the tincture of aconite root in a half pint of cold 

 water, poured into his mouth with a bottle having a strong neck, and repeat 

 this dose every four hours until six or eight doses have been given. Also 

 apply a cloth wet in ice- water to the feet, and keep wet with the same for 



