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After these symptoms have been manifested, the first 
thing to be done is to examine the foot, when it will be 
found very hot. Tap gently on the foot with a hammer, 
which will cause the artery at the pastern to throb violently 
and the horse will express pain at the same time. The 
effects of inflammation in the foot are very rapid, and but a 
short time will elapse before the horse will be quite unable 
to get up, unless some means are adopted to check the 
progress of the complaint. Even when horses have been 
forced up while thus afflicted, they have been known to fall 
down immediately, from the intensity of pain which they 
suffered by resting on their feet. 
Remedies. —The treatment of this should be like that ol 
all other inflammatory complaints. Bleeding must therefore 
be immediately resorted to, and that ought to be copious. 
If the disease is in the fore feet, three quarts of blood must 
be taken from the toe of each foot, at the position pointed 
out (plate 6, fig. 10, w ,) and in the manner described at 
page 118. After this large poultices of lintseed-meal 
should be applied, so as to cover the entire foot and pastern, 
and these ought 'to be frequently replaced by fresh ones. 
The shoe should be removed, and the sole pared as thin as 
possible, and the crust of the hoof well rasped down, more 
especially in the quarters. This operation should be done 
as gently as possible, as in founder the pain experienced from 
the excessive inflammation is very great. This having been 
accomplished, recourse must be had to very mild purgatives 
The following may be given in the form of a ball:— 
Barbadoes aloes . . 1 ounce, 
Calomel . . 2 drachms, 
Jalap ^ drachm. 
Inflammation of the foot is always accompanied by 
intense fever, and there is a danger of the inflammation 
