American Veterinary Review, 
MARCH, 1882. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THE HORSE’S FOOT. 
Br A. Zundel. 
(Continued Jrompage 494.) 
PUNCTURED WOUNDS OF THE FOOT. 
The most serious of the injuries to which the foot is liable 
are those caused by foreign bodies which penetrate the middle 
zone, that being the most complicated portion of the structure. 
The symptoms will vary, according as the wound extends to the 
plantar aponeurosis, or only as far as this membrane; or lacerates 
the soft surrounding tissues without touching it; or it goes beyond 
this and injures the small sesamoid sheath, or even going deeper, 
severs the navicular bone, or its ligamentous attachment to the 
os pedis; or reaches the last phalangeal articulation. 
A wound of the plantar aponeurosis is* always very painful, 
especially when complicated with necrosis, in which case there is 
no weight put on the diseased leg, and continual lancinating 
pains and reacting fever are soon observed. The wound is then 
fistulous in character, and the suppuration then flowing from it 
meets with difficulties in its escape, which gives rise to a state of 
