American Veterinary Review, 
NOVEMBER, 1882 . 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THE HORSE’S FOOT. 
By A. Zundel. 
(Continued from page 270.) 
LAMINITI8. 
. II. Termination and Complications .—Well treated, laminitis 
is generally of short duration, and ends in three or four days by 
resolution. Sometimes, however, this is not accomplished until a 
later period, even towards the tenth day, though cases of this 
character are rare; and even when resolution proceeds slowly, 
some lesions in the foot may be looked for, and chronic laminitis 
will probably result. Resolution in acute founder is marked by 
the gradual disappearance of the local and general symptoms. 
In some subjects, the improvement is quite rapid from day to day, 
and the form of termination is known as delitescency. Laminitis 
ending in resolution is not usually followed by alterations in the 
horny box or the tissues which it covers. 
When the congestion which constitutes the disease terminates 
otherwise than by resolution, it is always followed by accidents 
of varying character. Some of these may have a happy termi¬ 
nation, but in the end are more or less likely to be followed by 
a deformity of the horny box, to which the name of chronic lam¬ 
initis is given. Before entering upon this, however, let us exam¬ 
ine the various complications which may follow acute founder, 
