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A. ZUNDEL. 
The more painful and diseased the feet become, the more the 
animal fears the impingement of the ground. Thus, so to speak, 
he sounds the ground before putting the foot down, and for this 
reason the walking becomes slow, stiff and difficult, and the noise 
of the contaet of the foot louder than that of the healthy legs. 
Sometimes the animal proceeds only by a series of jumps, or a 
kind of rearing, while backing is especially difficult. 
The hoofs of the foundered feet give to the hand, when feel¬ 
ing them, a sensation of heat greater than that in the phvsiologi- 
cal condition ; a sensation which can be more readily detected by 
a comparison of the fore and hind feet simultaneously examined. 
The pains in the diseased feet are rendered more manifest, also, by 
percussion upon the hoof with the hammer, when each blow, how¬ 
ever light, is followed by a motion of the animal in suddenly 
withdrawing his foot on account of the pain experienced. The 
lateral arteries of the fetlock, in the foundered legs, beat stronger 
than in health, and can be readily felt by the fingers. The feet 
cannot be raised without great effort, and when raised, the animal 
stands only with great difficulty, and makes struggling attempts 
to relieve himself and resume its natural mode of standing on 
four legs. 
When laminitis affects only the fore feet, the animal will 
sometimes remain standing for a length of time together; he 
may retain this attitude for several days, without any displace¬ 
ment of his body; still lie is observed moving surplace, from 
side to side, especially on his fore legs, relieving one foot for a 
moment to give the same comfort immediately afterwards to the 
other. But when, exhausted by fatigue and pain, the foundered 
horse lies down, it is very difficult to get him on his feet again. 
He continues in the decubital position, lying mostly flat upon his 
side, the fore legs in constant motion, and soon complicates his 
diseased condition by the addition of bed sores upon the prom- 
inent parts of his body. 
The attitude of the animal is very different when the hind 
feet 'are affected ; then both the anterior and posterior bipeds 
are brought close to each other, the feet of the hind legs being 
carried forward under the abdomen, so that the rest may take 
