American Veterinary Review, 
FEBRUARY, 1882. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THE HORSE’S FOOT. 
By A. Zundel. 
(Continued from page 445.) 
Calk. 
Synonym .—Kronentritt (German)—Atteinte (French).—Thus 
is called a contusion, with or without wound, that the animal re¬ 
ceives on the coronet, from the shoe of another foot, or from a 
foreign body, or by another animal walking behind or alongside 
him. 
The skin of that region is very thick, slightly extensible, 
not easily yielding to the inflammatory swelling; there is commonly 
sloughing and mortification of tissues, accompanied with violent 
paiu. It is frequent in animals that forge, also in very young 
horses or those which are weak in the lumbar region, and which 
interfere and cut themselves in walking. This lesion is also very 
common in the districts where horses are shod with high calked 
shoes, when the wound resulting from it is made by the in¬ 
ternal branch of the shoe, which lacerates the skin of the coronet. 
Horses shod to travel on ice are commonly affected with it; the 
injury being more or less serious according to the size and sharp 
condition of the calk. 
