. Dadd's theory and practice of veterinary medicine and surgery. Veterinary medicine. LAMENESS, FROM VARIOUS CAUSES. 363 bones are concerned; yet, like spavin, ring-bone, and various other diseases, it is accompanied, in certain stages, by pain and lameness, and our services as physicians are only secured in view of remov- ing this pain and lameness, so that the animal may be enabled to perform the ordinary equine duties. This is what some persons please to term a cure, whereas it almost always happens that some alteration in the structure of the parts remains, which actually renders the horse
. Dadd's theory and practice of veterinary medicine and surgery. Veterinary medicine. LAMENESS, FROM VARIOUS CAUSES. 363 bones are concerned; yet, like spavin, ring-bone, and various other diseases, it is accompanied, in certain stages, by pain and lameness, and our services as physicians are only secured in view of remov- ing this pain and lameness, so that the animal may be enabled to perform the ordinary equine duties. This is what some persons please to term a cure, whereas it almost always happens that some alteration in the structure of the parts remains, which actually renders the horse unsound, because he has' that about him which may, from overwork or other exciting causes, impair his useful- THE PATELLA, OR STIFLE BONE. This cut shows the appearance of disease on articulatory surfaces when the animal is the subject of Osteo Porosis, or Big Head. As regards the "alarming" features of big head or big jaw, we would inform the reader that almost every lame horse examined by us, during a period of six months, in Ohio, had either one or the other jaw enlarged. In some cases one angle of the lower jaw was the seat of thickening and enlargement, but among the majority both angles were affected. These remarks do not apply to other obvious or accidental lamenesses which are constantly occurring. A short time ago we visited, in company with a practicing vet- erinarian whose attention had never been called to this affection, three horses, the subjects of lameness, which was said to be occa- sioned by eating Hungarian grass. To the astonishment of the parties concerned, we demonstrated that they were all the subjects of enlargements of the lower jaws. From the history of the cases,. 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 Dadd, George H. , b. 1813. [from old catalog]. Cincin
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