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sues are seen to be of a bluish-brown color, without consistency, 
but with a very foetid odor. 
Volpi thought that laininitis was the inflammation of the 
articulation of the foot; but this arthritis, if it exists (a fact 
which is rare), is not a consecutive phenomenon, but a complica¬ 
tion. The inflammation does not remain limited to the reticular 
tissue; it extends also, and consecutively, to the contiguous 
stiucture, spreads to the tendons and articular ligaments, even 
penetrates tg the synovial capsules of the articulation of the third 
witli the second phalanges, and may also react upon other parts 
of the organism. The anchylosis of the articulation of the foot 
with that of the coronary joint are complications somewhat fre¬ 
quent, as well as that of the ossification of the cartilages of the 
foot. 
f. Metastases have been often observed, and when ac¬ 
companied by intense fever have been noticed as complicated 
with serious diseases of the chest, especially of pleuro-pneumonia. 
At other times it has been the intestines to which the metas¬ 
tasis has transferred the disease, in which case there is, in most 
instances, constipation of the bowels. Enteritis, however, is 
seldom observed, notwithstanding what has been said on the sub¬ 
ject. This metastasis has also been seen toward the lumbar 
region, and this is much more commonly believed from the fact 
that there is more motion at the hip than at any other joint 
during locomotion, and also because the back and the loins are 
more or less arched. In fact, laininitis has been by some desig¬ 
nated as an affection of the loins; some have looked upon it as a 
rheumatism of that region. All these errors have originated in 
the peculiar motion of the animal while walking, or of its 
peculiar mode of resting when standing still. We have also 
obseived an attack of complete myelitis as a complication of 
laminitis. 
9 -—The most common complication met with in chronic 
laminitis is an affection which we might have treated as a special 
subject had we not, upon principle, considered it as a sub-inflam¬ 
matory state of acute founder of the foot. An attack of laminitis 
which has not ended by resolution in five, ten, or fifteen days at 
