American Veterinary Review, 
JULY, 1881. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THE HORSE’S FOOT, 
By A. Zundel. 
(Continued from page 91 .) 
Symptoms .—It is seldom that the symptoms of canker can be 
observed from the start; slow in its progress, and not surexciting 
the sensibility of the parts, the disease may progress without 
manifesting any ill effects, and consequently escape notice by the 
owner or groom, nothing appearing to call his atten¬ 
tion to the affected foot. Thus, in a majority of cases, canker is 
only discovered after it has been in existence for a considerable 
period, and when serious alterations have already taken place. It 
is often at the shoeing shop, when the shoes are changed, that in 
the laminae is observed a moisture more or less abundant, giving 
rise to softening and raising of the hoof. The disease sometimes 
attacks only one foot, often several feet at a time; at times when 
one foot is cured, another becomes affected, and the disease thus 
appears traveling alternately from one foot to another. 
Usually the disease begins with the inflammation of the kerato- 
genous membrane which covers the median lacunae of the plantar 
cushion ; the hoof covering this is softened, raised by a serous 
