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GROGGY LAMENESS. 
among veterinarians, both of the old and new school, that founder 
is but another name for laminitis or fever in the feet. 
It rarely happens, as I stated before, that a horse is attacked 
for the first time with navicularthritis in both feet. Usually, but 
one foot is attacked, and to that foot the disease confines itself ; 
and in the same foot still, generally speaking, relapses, should 
it return after disappearing ; and it will do this for a second, a 
third, a fourth, and even a fifth time ; though, in other cases, after 
a second or third relapse the fellow foot will fail ; and now the 
foundation stone may be said to be laid for a state of groggy 
lameness. 
In fact, it is evidently the pointing or resting of the lame foot 
in the stable, and the favouring of it while out, that, by imposing 
more weight and work upon the sound foot, causes the latter in 
the course of time to fail. For example, a horse will experience 
two or three or four attacks of lameness in the same foot. His 
owner, wearied by the tedious protraction of the case, and impa- 
tient at the expense of keeping so useless a servant, either sum- 
marily disposes of him, or, in a fit of vexation at the recurrence of 
lameness after so much rest and treatment, resolves to work him 
“ lame or sound.’’ Sold or unsold, it is probable that the lame 
horse, instead of being laid up afresh, the sufferer is kept at work, 
going sometimes quite lame, at other times — after rest perhaps — not 
so lame, until at length he begins to step short likewise with the 
sound limb, and by degrees proves lame in that also : in the end 
becoming as lame in one foot as in the other, or what dealers call 
“ groggy” 
In horses who are taken that care of that their lameness is at- 
tended to and treated the moment it is perceived, this double dis- 
ease is often for a long period warded off, and has, as I shall shew 
hereafter, been known, under watchful management, to be kept aloof 
altogether ; a circumstance which will add weight to the opinion 
that the disease in the sound foot is rather to be regarded as the 
result of over- weight and work, than as being referrible to any con- 
stitutional or local susceptibility. Perhaps, better than by any 
further description, light will be thrown on the progress of navicu- 
larthritis towards grogginess by the relation of some cases. 
C 6, troop horse, at the time four years old, was admitted for 
treatment on account of lameness in the near fore foot ( navicular - 
thritis ) on the 20th July, 1843 ; had the lame foot pared out, stood 
with it in a warm bath, had it poulticed when taken out of the bath, 
and took, during the time, a dose of cathartic medicine. No relief 
being afforded by such mild treatment, blood was taken from the 
foot, and a blister applied over the fetlock joint, as well as upon 
the pasterns and coronet ; and he was turned at a fitting time into 
