SEEDY TOE. 
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happens to be assigned to labor and surroundings unfavor¬ 
able to its limbs. Seedy toe is oftenest found affecting a fore 
foot, and predisposition to this family of diseases may be the 
result either of heredity or of some peculiarity acquired after 
birth. 
There are many different degrees of such hoof depravity, 
as well as stages of degeneration, and it is in their repair, 
rather than in their early history, where their greatest resem¬ 
blance is often seen. 
1. One case may be nothing more than a small discolored 
area of sole where a nail has been driven too deep into a part 
where the vitality of the tissues has become so much im¬ 
paired that the}^ are unable to contribute their share either 
to their own nourishment or in repairing the injury. 
2. Another case may be a foot with its hoof so warped 
and deformed that it resembles a club foot; a frequent excit¬ 
ing cause of this is when the coronet is crushed from a loaded 
team passing over it. 
3. Another case may be one where the secreting struc¬ 
tures at the pyramidal process are so crowded that the wall 
in front stops growing, and so does the laminas extending to 
the toe. When these laminse give way, the toe of the coffin- 
bone is forced down and back till it rests on the sole just in 
front of the frog; here it soon becomes bruised, then thin, 
and finally convex; the space between the coffin-bone and 
the wall in front becomes filled with debris ; the wall be¬ 
tween the coronet and toe settles down, while the hoof at the 
heels grows vigorously, forcing the wings of the coffin-bone 
upward and the pyramidal process forward against the de¬ 
fectively nourished wall in front, the toe of the coffin-bone 
being held back by the perforatus tendon inserted in its sole. 
This variety has usually been described as an example of 
chronic founder of. one foot; it is the form from which “ Mor¬ 
timer” suffered when Mr. Lorillard imported him from 
France. The following gives an outline of a case frequently 
met with, viz.: 
When the sole has been dressed with a rasp, the zone be¬ 
tween the sole margin and the wall, which ought to be white, 
