144 LAMINITIS — ACUTE FOUNDER— FEVER IN THE FEET. 
the latter of which inculcated the propriety of having the horse 
knocked on the head. 
But time presses forward. The College has been established 
above half a century, and we have our standard authors educated 
in its school. Improved by its advantages and matured by their 
own individual experience, let them report progress. Blaine says 
that “ in the worst cases the hoofs separate and drop off, or morti- 
fication at once ensues. At other times, where the effects are not 
quite so violent, the termination is sufficiently unfortunate, effu- 
sion taking place, and the hoofs gradually becoming imperfect and 
deformed.” White writes, “ the best termination that can be ex- 
pected of this dreadful disease is an incurable lameness ; ” and 
Goodwin confirms these statements, adding, “ that even in the 
commencement of the disease the natural secretion of horn ceases, 
and a separation between the laminae takes place, and the horny 
sole soon flattens and becomes convex,” and in one out of two 
extraordinary recoveries which he relates the hoofs came off both 
fore feet. 
And if, finally, we appeal to practitioners of the present day, 
shall we not hear of the same unhappy results, the same unfavour- 
able terminations] will any come forward and say they anticipate 
and rely on equally favourable results from the remedial measures 
they adopt in these cases as they do in others ] I appeal to any 
veterinary surgeon to pass his veto on the matter : veterinary sur- 
geon, remember, I say — not to the canaille of the veterinary art, 
who would say or swear to any thing to gain a customer or injure 
an honest or honourable opponent, not to the groom’s oracle, the 
coachman’s companion, or the tap-room lounger — who has science 
and experience enough to form a correct opinion, and who has 
enough of liberal and gentlemanly feeling to give a candid one — if 
such is not the case. 
But, nevertheless, and in spite of this somewhat awkward mass 
of per contra evidence, I am not going to have Gervase Markham 
and Thomas de Grey, Esquires, thrown overboard, merely because 
of all the farriers and veterinarians who have lived ever since, none 
have been able to do what they did; on the contrary, I mean to 
take my stand beside them, and assert that acute founder can, in a 
vast majority of cases, be cured, and that, too, without leaving the 
slightest bad effect behind ; or, as old Gervase has it, “ you shall be 
sure to have your horse as sound as ever he was.” And now, 
having backed myself up with these two equestrian Esculapii, I 
will just run over a few particulars touching the causes and symp- 
toms, and then in “ a plain unvarnished tale” describe my mode of 
treatment. 
The causes of this acutely painful disease vary ; but in two- 
