. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. KEIVr Ol' 'I'lll'. II()I!SE AM) TIIKIlt UISEASKS. 249 No clKUHiC need he made in 1ii<' slioeiiitr, ('Xi-('|)t to stiifT taf juid tow ovci tlir iiail-liolc, luidci- tlic shoe. If nail wounds arc nciilcctt'd lock jaw is \<'i-y ajjt to follow. VI. Acute Founder or Laminitis. Founder is of two kinds, acute and chronic. It is acute where, when it first takes i)lacc, all the; arc aggravated and the disease is attended with more or less fever. It clu-onic when it has hccn of long -stiin
. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. KEIVr Ol' 'I'lll'. II()I!SE AM) TIIKIlt UISEASKS. 249 No clKUHiC need he made in 1ii<' slioeiiitr, ('Xi-('|)t to stiifT taf juid tow ovci tlir iiail-liolc, luidci- tlic shoe. If nail wounds arc nciilcctt'd lock jaw is \<'i-y ajjt to follow. VI. Acute Founder or Laminitis. Founder is of two kinds, acute and chronic. It is acute where, when it first takes i)lacc, all the; arc aggravated and the disease is attended with more or less fever. It clu-onic when it has hccn of long -stiinding and the condition has taken an organized form, will i-(^main as it is and hecome a jjurt of the organized system, hut is nt)t attended by any fever, otln^r than a slight local heat. The iinier siu'farc of (he wall of llie hoof has iiorny leaves or laminae, \-ery line and near together, running up and down. On the outer surface of tiie hone of the foot are sensitive, tleshy leaves that dovetail, ns it wei-c, into the heaves on the wall of the hoof. On these leaves is home the weight of the enlire Ixxly. Causes.—Sometimes it is caused hy overwork, in which the feet are poimdcd, and sored up, causing iidlainmation in the leaves. But founder is usually a metastatic disease—one that originates in some other part of the, hody and goes to the feet by a peculiar trans-i ference called metaslasis. ll may originate in congestion of | the lunffs, j)li'urisy, intlamniMtion of the bowels or periton- eum (the membrane hoUling the bowels in place) or in almost any part of the body, .standinfr in a draft when heated will cause it. How to know It.—The acute form is easil}' recognized hy P'f^''J^5°^^'=''^_J5 the Inn'.-c being in great pain, pei'sistontly standing in one P"""«<ifo'"- place, as if riveted there, it being almost impossible to move him an inch in any direction, especially backward. He ai)solnt<'ly caimot back, but will hang the; body
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