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to eat and drink while down ; do anything reasonable to 

 keep the patient off its feet. 



Although in laminitis we usually see very marked con- 

 stitutional disturbance, the greatest effort, therapeutic- 

 ally, is to be applied locally. And, for fine and complete 

 healing, nothing is of such great importance as that por- 

 tion of the nursing which encourages the recumbent 

 position. From any point of view — pathologic, therapeu- 

 tic, humane — one could, with full justification, force the 

 recumbent position on the patient by the use of appro- 

 priate restraint. 



Only in parturient laminitis must we add something to 

 the treatment of this disease that is of greater importance, . 

 namely, liberal irrigations of the uterus. Aside from 

 this the treatment of cases of parturient laminitis does not 

 differ, and it is the only form of laminitis in which the 

 treatment given aims directly at the cause. 



