American Veterinary Review, 
DECEMBER, 1878. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
ATROPHY OF THE PLANTAR CUSHION, 
ITS CAUSES, SEQUELAE AND TREATMENT. 
By G. Chenier. Translated by A. Liautard, M. D., V.S. 
L’affection, appet^e classiquement 
encastelure, procide de dedans en de¬ 
hors. 
The affection classically called hoof- 
bound, proceeds from inwards out¬ 
wards. 
The foot! Organ of rest and of progression. Mature, by a 
wonder of its creating power, has granted to it two properties, 
solidity and elasticity, which at first sight seem incompatible. 
It is not astonishing that an organ so complicated in its struc¬ 
ture and the arrangement of its parts, so important in the duty 
it has to perform, should have been on the part of veterinary ob¬ 
servers the object of investigations and deep theories. And there¬ 
fore are there few subjects in which researches of the physiologist 
and the practical observer prove to be more fecund in results. 
Notwithstanding this, and notwithstanding the important 
works published on the subject, and specially the publication of a 
true scientific and literary monument from the so well authorized 
pen of M. H. Bouley, the held of studies offered by the foot is 
