518 FEVER IN THE FOOT. [BOOK III. 



upon their haunches and curvet, or perform the 

 demi volt, the hind legs come upon the ground 

 severely, but this cannot interfere with the general 

 rule. 



Fever in the Foot 



Is that low state of the symptoms which arises from 

 a slight attack which has been neglected. 



Cure. — Rest is indispensable ; foment the entire 

 foot with warm bran-water, or make the whole 

 into a poultice sufficient to envelope the foot all over, 

 as high as the inflammation may extend, which is 

 sometimes as far up as the fetlock. Apply a ca- 

 taplasm of fuller's earth, or of mashed turnips, al- 

 ternately with the other remedies. When the heat 

 is greatest at the sole, and the fever extends no 

 higher than the coronet, a stuffing of cow-clung will 

 reduce the heat considerably : it may be secured by 

 thin splinters of wood, and changed thrice the first 

 day or two — once a day afterwards. Introduce a 

 strong solution of nitre, and let it be strong, as you 

 cannot employ much of it. Both legs should be 

 stuffed at the sole, though the sound one (if one 

 only be affected) does not require changing. Let 

 the animal have a loose stall during any stage of 

 strain, or disorder of the limbs. Look after his 

 evacuations, and cause them to be regular ; a simple 

 fever (or inflammation) of the foot depending very 

 often upon nothing more than one or other of these 

 being stoppod, which affects the whole animal sys- 

 tem sometimes, to say nothing of a single limb. 



