ROYAL ACADEINIY OF MEDICINE AT PARIS. 
A. disease which may be attended by consequences so fatal de¬ 
serves the fixed attention of every veterinarian, and, consequently, 
has long been the subject of his peculiar study. The nature of 
this malady, its seat, its causes, and the disorganization which it 
produces, are well known. It is also known that the treatment 
should have but one object, namely, the termination of this 
inflammation in resolution. Every other mode of termination is 
unfavourable, if not destructive. Copious bleedings, astringents, 
and refrigerants the most active, are the principal therapeutic 
agents we should employ in this case. When they have been 
used in good earnest, and in good time, that is to say, at the 
commencement of the case, they almost always are productive of 
good effect; and in a few days restore the animal to health. Let 
us now see if the new method of proceeding proposed by the 
author of the Memoir should be preferred to this. 
M. de Nanzio having remarked, that the foundered horses 
which are left sTiod, without litter, and on the pave, get well 
more promptly than others, has thought that a general compres¬ 
sion of the hoof would be a good curative measure; in conse¬ 
quence he advises, when founder manifests itself, to cover the 
sole with pledgets soaked in salt water and vinegar, and to com¬ 
press them on the part by means of a shoe furnished with a metal¬ 
lic plate, and which is kept on the foot by four or five nails. 
This plate, which is prolonged posteriorly towards the toe, is 
curved from below upwards, and presents two rounded openings, 
through which a ligature is passed, which surrounds the wall of 
the hoof, and strongly compresses it through its whole extent as 
high as the coronet, and even above it. The author also recom¬ 
mends a cooling regimen, cold baths, and bleedings, either at the 
jugular or the foot. Inaw'ord, he prescribes the rational treatment 
already recommended, and the good effects of which we have just 
stated. M. de Nanzio adds, that, at the end of a few days, the 
animal will be found to be completely cured. He seems to be 
very much attached to his peculiar method of proceeding, and 
attributes his success to compression, which he eulogizes in very 
high terms. 
If it is true, as we have advanced, that the pressure of the hoof 
on the congested or inflamed tissues is one of the principal causes 
of the serious character which laminitis presents, we cannot con¬ 
ceive that compression, established through the whole extent of 
the hoof, can be a curative measure. On the contrary, we think 
that such a mode of treatment is irrational, and would even be¬ 
come dangerous if, as the author advises, the compression was 
continued above the coronet. It also seems to us passing strange 
that any advantage can arise from leaving a foundered animal 
