. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. 312 THE AMERICAN FARMEK's STOCK BOOK. What to do.—Give the affected joint the treatment prescribed under its proper hoiid, t-xli;iust ill! known remedies, and when you utterly fail to produce a cure, you may come to the conclusion that there is jjorcela- neous deposit in the joint which is incurable. No treatment is of any avail. XIV. Strmg Halt. Causes.—Strinj^ halt or spring halt is a purely nervous affection in which the cause cannot be detinitely located, but which may be due to any local disorde
. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. 312 THE AMERICAN FARMEK's STOCK BOOK. What to do.—Give the affected joint the treatment prescribed under its proper hoiid, t-xli;iust ill! known remedies, and when you utterly fail to produce a cure, you may come to the conclusion that there is jjorcela- neous deposit in the joint which is incurable. No treatment is of any avail. XIV. Strmg Halt. Causes.—Strinj^ halt or spring halt is a purely nervous affection in which the cause cannot be detinitely located, but which may be due to any local disorder. It often exists without any visible lesion. How to know it.— I'l'" l^'fi is jerked up towards the ])ody with every step, sonietiines so slroiigly as to strike the belly with the fetlock. Somc- tinu's it is very slight, only showing in moving from side to side in the stall, or only when starting forward or backward. Sometimes both legs. are affected. It is usually worse when stai ting ; sometimes it is so bad that the horse has hard work to start at all and will stand and jerk up ilrst one leg, then the other ; but once started he goes without hesitation. But it is very fatiguing and wearing; and the horse seldom accunimulatcs any flesh. What to do.—The treatnuMit is very unsatisfactory, seldom or never resultmg in anv l)enetit, but it is best alwavs to treat aiiv local disorder A IIAI> CASE OK STUINC. HALT. of that region as it requires, willi a hope that it will alleviate the ner- vous ] Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Periam, Jonathan. [from old catalog]; Baker, A. H. , [from old catalog] joint author. St. Louis, Mo. , N. D. Thompson & co.
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