American Veterinary Review, 
OCTOBER, 1882 . 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THE HORSE’S FOOT. 
By A. Zundel. 
(Continued from page 208.) 
LAMINITIS. 
Synonym : Belie , Verschlag, Hufentzundung , German : Four- 
bur e, Fourbature , French; Bifondimento , Italian; Aguadura , 
Spanish. 
By this name is understood the bloody congestions of the 
keratogenous apparatus of ungulated animals. The increase of 
the circulating fluid produces a swelling of the living tissues of 
the foot; but these being enclosed in a box of so hard, resisting 
a material, a painful pressure results, which becomes specially 
common and serious in horses and other solipeds. It has also 
been observed in bovines, though it is then less frequent and 
serious. It has also been seen in sheep, in goats and in swine. 
It may, in fact, occur in all ungulated animals. Dogs, even, are 
not exempt from its attacks. 
The simple bloody congestion, more or less inflammatory, of 
the keratogenous apparatus of the horse, is sometimes called acute 
laminitis and acute founder. The disease may pass off by resolu¬ 
tion, leaving no traces of its occurrence, but more commonly it 
becomes complicated with some lesion of more important and 
serious a character, as hemorrhage, suppuration, inflammatory 
