CHRONIC FOUNDER. 
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before walking exercise is attempted. A month or two’s 
run at grass will be attended with much advantage after 
founder. 
No disease is more to be dreaded than violent inflamma¬ 
tion of the foot, as, even with the utmost attention to 
remedy the complaint, very bad consequences result from 
it. One of these of frequent occurrence is loss of the 
hoof. The first symptom of this is the appearance of a 
small separation between the coronet and the hoof. Great 
attention to this is necessary, as the horn thus sepa¬ 
rated will never reunite with the parts beneath, but the 
separation will continue to extend downwards, until entire 
disunion is effected and the hoof is ultimately lost. This 
is a most serious affair; for although a new hoof will be 
formed, it will be not only smaller in size, but also thinner 
and weaker than the first, and liable to be injured by any 
kind of hard labour or rough roads. 
In the event of no smith being at hand when it is 
ascertained that a horse has been seized with inflammation 
of the foot, and if the proprietor or his groom are not 
acquainted with the mode of paring down the hoof, then 
it will be safer to bleed from the vein running up the inside 
of the leg, as it is better to take blood from the nearest 
contiguous part to that which is affected, than not to do it 
at all at an early stage of the complaint. Pressure should 
be applied above the part to be opened, thus differing from 
blood-letting from the neck, which is always made below it. 
CHRONIC FOUNDER. 
Chronic founder is merely a conventional term, adopted 
by farriers to express those changes which take place in the 
foot of the horse in disease brought on by bad shoeing or 
mismanagement in some way or other. In fact, it is a word 
