The American reformed horse book, a treatise on the causes, symptoms, and cure of all the diseases of the horse, including every disease peculiar to America, also breeding, rearing, and management . work beyond his capacity. Thenthe affection can be accounted for, and may not owe its orijjin tfleithei &ult or defect 324 dadds veterinary medicine and surgery. Atbophy, or Wastino of Muscles in the Region ofTHE Shoulder-blade, (known as Sweeny.) Atrophy signifies wasting of muscles, in which diseased partabecome notably smaller than those of the natural, without otheralteration in texture. The au
The American reformed horse book, a treatise on the causes, symptoms, and cure of all the diseases of the horse, including every disease peculiar to America, also breeding, rearing, and management . work beyond his capacity. Thenthe affection can be accounted for, and may not owe its orijjin tfleithei &ult or defect 324 dadds veterinary medicine and surgery. Atbophy, or Wastino of Muscles in the Region ofTHE Shoulder-blade, (known as Sweeny.) Atrophy signifies wasting of muscles, in which diseased partabecome notably smaller than those of the natural, without otheralteration in texture. The author has had several opportunitiesof examining horses that have died in consequence of disease orold age, who, during life, were the subjects of what is known assweeny, and found that the muscles of the shoulder had quite apale appearance, somewhat resembling those of a calf which hadbeen bled to death. A condensation or wasting of muscular fiberwas very apparent; the cellular membrane under the skin hadalmost disappeared, merely by condensation and contraction of theskin over the region of the parts, which contraction occurs in con-Bequence of shrinkage of the muscles beneath the skin,. A FOtTNDEEED OR DEAD LAME HORSE. fSee p. ?:3&A Causes.—^As regards the cause of atrophy, it is a well-knownfact that inaction of a muscle produces a notable decrease in muscles of laboring men decrease in size whenever, fromchoice or necessity, the individual leads a sedentary life. A limbkept at rest lor any length of time undergoes more or less atrophy(wasting). In some cases, the foot diseases, so common, arc ofthat character as to ca*ise the subjects much pain in progression; LAMENESS, FROM NARIOUS CAUSES. 326 and, in order to relieve the feet, the horse spares the muscles, which,for want of free and full action, leads to diminished nutrition andwasting (atiophy). Some of the readers of this work must havfnoticed the fact of the shrinking of the muscles of the haunch inease of di
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