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young practitioners and is often erroneously diagnosed by their 
older brothers ; that condition which to ordinary observation 
closely resembles laminitis, except that the characteristic pulse 
is absent, and the feet not so hot. It often occurs after cold 
rains or snowstorms, or as a result of the horse being exposed to 
wind or drafts. The animal will have the characteristic stiffness, 
move with great difficulty, show pain and distress, and assume 
the positions usual in founder, etc. I term this condition rheu- 
matic founder, or it may properly be termed u pseudo laminitis,” 
so closely does it resemble regular laminitis. It yields, though, 
readily to the following treatment, often in 24 or 48 hours : 
k Quin, sulph., zj. 
Pulv. colchici sem., 
Pulv. bell ad. fob, 
Sodii salicylatis, aa | iij. 
M. Piat charts. No. xii. Sig. : One powder every three hours in syrup. 
Have animal warmly clothed. 
Pneumonia .—How often these cases are lost, or a chronic 
cough remains, or the animal’s wind injured, by improper treat¬ 
ment. The cause of this lies in the fact that too often the 
veterinarian forgets that this is a self-limiting disease. Of 
course, I am considering a case that is past the congestive stage. 
If you are called while there is only pulmonary congestion a 
powerful sweating mixture, with counter-irritation, followed by 
a suitable febrifuge, will frequently relieve the congestion, and 
thus abort the inflammation which would otherwise have fol¬ 
lowed. But after true inflammation sets in the disease cannot or 
should not be cut short. Too often in pneumonia powerful anti¬ 
pyretics are prescribed, resulting in cutting down the fever be¬ 
fore nature is ready, or before the morbid products have been 
thrown out of the system ; the inflammatory material is left to 
dry up, as it were, in the lungs, and causes a chronic cough or 
some of the conditions existing under the general term of u bad 
wind ; or perhaps the treatment has been very depressing, and 
the animal dies. The treatment of pneumonia should be of a 
stimulating character, one that does not too quickly cut down 
the fever, but rather one that simply limits the extent of the 
