THE HORSE—THE EXTREMITIES. 17k 
CHRONIC FOUNDER OR -LAMINITIS. 
The acute form of founder, or laminitis, which has been described above, 
may lead to a chronic type, and this is to be dreaded. 
Symptoms.—Feeling of lameness, though not actual lameness, in both. 
fore legs, which are unnaturally warm; tapping the front legs causes pains 
the animal lifts his feet but little in walking, and puts his heels upon the- 
ground; the sole becomes flat or convex; the crust breaks easily; more: 
lameness with a weight on the back than when the animal is led on a trot.. 
TREATMENT.—If no inflammation be perceptible, internal remedies. 
are useless; but if it be noticed before the tissues lose elasticity, or the foot: 
becomes changed in appearance, give rhus three times aday. Keep felt. 
pads on the feet; apply to the crowns of the feet cloths soaked in rhus-lo- 
tion. Feed mashes and green food. Favorable results will be experienced. 
by removing the shoes and turning the animal into a large stall, the floor’ 
being well covered with sawdust or fine tan-bark. If the foot becomes: 
again elastic, work on soft ground may be done, but a very short walk on 
hard ground will produce inflammation. A thin layer of rubber or leather 
between the shoe and hoof will do much to prevent a return. 
PUMICED FOOT. 
This is a flatness or convexity of the sole, with a soft, spongy horn- 
growth, the middle of the front part of the hoof being depressed. It is a 
result of founder. 
TREATMENT.—It is incurable. Relief may be given by putting on 
a broad-webbed shoe, with gutta-percha or leather under it. Where the: 
crust is much lower than the sole, a thick shoe with a narrow web is better, 
a piece of gutta-percha the breadth of the heel of the shoe being put next 
to the crust to raise the sole from the ground. Require only slow work,, 
and that with very much rest. Dress the sole daily with hot tar. 
SEEDY TOE. 
Seedy toe arises often without an assignable cause, thought it may fol-. 
low founder, or result from dirt or gravel working in at the edge of the 
sole, or from the clip of a shoe pressing on a hoof that is deficient in cohe- 
sive power, from blows, as from too hard hammering, and other means of 
violence. ; 
Symptoms.—The horn at the toe crumbles off like sawdust or rotten 
wood; an opening leads up between the outer and inner crusts of the walk 
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