Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-28

ing the hoof with flax seed paste was
recommended.
A pair of oxen with wens on their necks
was next examined. Prof. Cressy said
the wens could be cut out; but he thought
the cheapest and best way would be to
make beef of them, us they might come
again if cut away.
Another horse with dried hoofs was eX-
amned, which also had a quarter crack;
but the professor gave no remedy and
made no remarks on quarter cracks.
NO. VII.
FOUNDER.
The scientific name of this common
disease is Lantinitts. 1t is u disease Of
the foot arising from Inflammation of the
lamin@ and sensitive portions of the foot,
lying between the hoof and the pedal bone.
1t commonly occurs from too sudden cool
ing of 4 heated horse. A horse brought in
warm and faded and set TO eating cold cut
feed, will be liable TO founder, when if he
had been rubbed dry and fed with dry hay,
he would have come out all right.
A horse left standing, after driving, in
too cold Il place, is liable to chill and
| checking Of the circulation of the legs.
For this reason it is well to bandage the
legs of horses at night in cold weather. A
horse may be foundered by standing on
cold clay, for contracted feet, when if he
had been put on Il floor well covered with
litter, he would have been all right OF
course common cause is allowing horse
to drink cold water freely when much
heated In early cases of founder the SOW
ereign remedy is Sweating. There are
horse dealers who make u practice of
looking up and buying at low figures
newly -foundered horses, which they cure
by sweating them and sell at good figures.
TO aid perspiration, aconite may be adj
lninistered, in dose of u drachm to half
Il pail of water. Let the horse drink tepid
water freely. Warm water is itself a pro-
motor of Precipitation. Cold water has
the contrary effect except, that in some
cases, when the horse is greatly heated
and yet the sweat will not start, quart
or two Of cold water will lower the tenn
perature and start the perspiration. 1t
has been found in some cases that letting
u foundered horse stand I'M pond Of warm
water has been beneficial, the tepid water
opening the pores and answering the pur-
pose OF u sweat. After the Inflammation
has continued till emulation of pus takes
place, the matter accumulatcs between
the hoof and the bone. Pressing down
ward towards the toe, the accumulation of
matter in time actually presses the bone
back. In this case by saving right into
the toe of the hoof, II means Of escape is
afforded TO the pus, and it will work out.
if not discharged in any other way the
matter will finally work channel to the
rear. Its presence may be discovered by
the softness and swelling at the heel, and
by cutting in and opening, the matter may
be discharged. If not discharged in some
way, it in some cases has been known TO
result in cases of incurable thrush.
In time, if the pus has no way to escape,
it breaks down and becomes iDspissated.
The thicker part of it becomes semi-solid
and then granulated. At last the horse
gets better and seems to have recovered;
but when the blacksmith comes to pare
the hoof he finds Il chalky substance inside
the outer horn of the hoof. This is the
result of calcareous degeneration of the
tissues, and is called by the blacksmiths,
- seedy toe"
In some cases horse placed in a moist
pasture, or having his feet kept on moist
earth in the stable, will become cured of
founder by means of the growth of new
horn.
An important aid to IL cure, when the
horses foot is in the subacute stage of this
disease, passing into the chronic, may be
rendered by proper shoeing In this stage
the pressure on the fore part of the bone
makes it painful for the horse TO strike the
toe. The tendency, therefore, is to raise
the toe and to strike the ground with the
heel. To help him, shoe him with Il shoe
having high toe calk and no heel calks.
This saves u great deal of the strain on
the igaments, occasioned by the effort to
keep the toe raised, and conduces 10 the
comfort and cure of the animal. A loun-
dered horse, so shod, may be made useful
for years.
AS the disease continues, with constant
formation of matter in the lamin@ and in
contact with the bone of the foot, in time
absorption of the bone takes place. The
outer portion becomes absorbed or, as it
WERE eaten away, till in extreme cases
half or more of its substance is gone. In
brief the process in founder is first, con-
gestion; second, emulation; third suppl
ration, or formation of pus; fourth calcl-
reous degeneration; fifth, absorption of
the bone.
Horses with loose jointed feet, and long
haired fetlocks to hold water, are most IL
able to become foundercd. A horse with
Il snug well made foot, set on tight, and
with short haired fctlock and an oblque
pastern, is less liable to founder.
CORNS.
The corn, proper, is a stone-bruise. The