. 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). 758 DISEASES AND THEIE TEEATMENT. one professing to doctor horses. Becoming finally acquainted with a well-known veterinary surgeon, Dr. Wm.
. 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). 758 DISEASES AND THEIE TEEATMENT. one professing to doctor horses. Becoming finally acquainted with a well-known veterinary surgeon, Dr. Wm. Somerville, of Buffalo, New York,* I employed him to give me a private course of lectures, in- structing me in the principles and treatment of the most common caus- es of sickness and lameness in horses, and I spent nearly a year in obtain- ing this knowledge. At the commencement of these lectures there were three interesting cases of spavin for treatment, two of them from distant cities. He ex- plained, among other things, that he charged one hundred dollars each for treating these cases, guarantee- ing a cure without blemishing; and that were the treatment for these cases understood by the local veter- inary surgeons, whose charges were comparatively nominal, they would not have been sent to him at such large expense for treatment and shipping. The better to explain the nature of spavins, I quote from the best description I can find of this disease and its causes:— " There are two distinct kinds of bone sjiavin : The first is in all re- spects simihw to splint, and arises from inflammation of the periosteum. It frequently comes on insidiously without causing much annoyance. The other form, arising from inflam- mation of the internal structures of Fig. of leg and foot. ^^'^ hock-joint, is frequently attended by caries or ulceration, and from the first produces intense f)ain and lameness, when the bones rub on one * I give his exact method of tieatm
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