American Veterinary Review, 
SEPTEMBER, 1881. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THE HORSE’S FOOT, 
By A. Zundel. 
(Continued from page 187.) 
Treatment .—From the preceding remarks, it is evident that 
in feet affected with canker, the keratogenous apparatus of the 
foot has undergone no essential alteration in its structure, that its 
thickness and density have only increased by consequence of the 
infiltration and organization in its net work of the plastic pro¬ 
ducts of inflammation. And, again, the secreting function of 
this apparatus, far from being arrested, is on the contrary more 
active; but the products it gives instead of being concrescible, re¬ 
main diffluent; hence the impossibility for the hoof to be re¬ 
stored in the regions where this alteration of secretion exists 
and remains. These important facts, says M. Bouley, must 
take the lead in the chapter of the therapeutics of canker, because 
they teach the practitioner that the object to effect, in the treat¬ 
ment of this disease, is not to radically destroy the diseased tis¬ 
sues, as has been too often done and recommended, but to re¬ 
turn to them their physical and physiological properties by the 
application on their surface, of modifying agents which influence 
