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Show CAUSE OF FOUNDER Not the Result of Eating More Food Than Good for Him. Animal Driven Hard for Long Way and Allowed to Stand Long Enough to Chill Will Show All the Characteristic Symptoms. Most of us are apt to think that founder i s always caused by the horse eating more than is good for him. I thougtht the same thing until a few weeks ago. I know now that an animal hard-driven hard-driven for a long way, and allowed to stand in the open air long enough to chill, has all the characteristic symptoms of a typical case of founder. foun-der. Laminitis is the name given the disease dis-ease in the books, and the soreness and lameness comes from the violent inflammation that is set up in the sensitive folds of tissue that are interlaced in-terlaced with nonsensitive layers of the hoof says a writer in the Farm Progress. These two kinds of layerB are sandwiched between each other, and when the disturbance caused by overeating in a heated condition, or from a chill when the blood is hot, sets up, it is communicated to the very sensitive tissue of the foot. The slight swelling that takes place causes the circulation of the blood through this tissue to result in considerable con-siderable fever. The lamilar tissue becomes be-comes very hot and painful. Driving a horse very swiftly over a hard road, and allowing him to chill very quickly, is fairly certain to create some suh disturbance, and when this is marked, it is a good plan to start treating the horse at once. As soon as the horse shows signs of founder, get him into a stable and place the afflicted feet in a tub of water that is just about as hot as the animal can bear. This tends to reduce re-duce the inanimation that is already al-ready present, and will prevent any increase in the lambeness. Keep up this treatment for an hour and a half or two hours, then remove the tub and rub the feet as dry as you can. Put the horse in a warm, deeply bedded stall,- and drench with a mixture mix-ture of about a pint of raw linseed oil, about 30 grains of calomel and an ounce of pulverized ginger. Follow the hot water foot bath treatment for three or four days in order to make certain that the swelling swell-ing does not come back. If the animal ani-mal does not respond to the treatment treat-ment get a veterinary to look him over at once. If the hot water treatment is used quickly enough and strong enough it will prevent many of the worst symptoms. symp-toms. The sensitive tissue of the interior of the hoof is quite closely connected as to nature with the membrane of the intestinal tract. The sympathy between be-tween the two sets of nervous centers is very close and any disturbance in the intestinal membrane is apt to be reflected in the lamilar tissue of the foot. |