. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). 774 DISEASES AND THEIE TREATMENT. The following is the treatment used by one of the most suc- cessful veterinary surgeons in this country:—
. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). 774 DISEASES AND THEIE TREATMENT. The following is the treatment used by one of the most suc- cessful veterinary surgeons in this country:— First, put on a high-heeled shoe, then take boiling water, and with a sponge have the curb well bathed for about ten minutes. Then apply the following liniment:— 1 ounce aqua amonia, 2 ounces tincture of iodine, 3 ounces glycerine. Apply to the part two or three times a day, until quite sore. Then stop for a few days, when repeat the medicine as before, and so continue until again sore. Bog Spavins and Thorough-Pins. This disease may be called wind-galls of the hock, caused usually by strain and overwork, but principally by lunging back upon the hind legs. When the swelling is inside and front of the hock, it is called a bog or blood spavin. This is caused by a distension or rupturing of the membranes which cover the synovial cavity of the joint. The swelling is soft, and yields to the press- ure of the finger. Thorough-pin is of the same character— an enlargement on the back, inside of the upper part of the joint, where in its natural condition is a hollow. This swelling extends across under the tendon, forming a tumor between the calcis and thigh bone. It is simply a rupture of the synovial membrane allowing the synovia to escape. By press- ing upon one .side, the swelling is pushed through to the other side; and sometimes there is connection with swelling in front. These enlargements i-arely cause lameness, though sometimes they may cause inflam- mation of the parts in
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