. The horse : its varieties and management in health and disease. road, arefound embedded in the frog or one of the commissures,sometimes penetrating the joint within and terminatingfatally. The usual method of testing foot lameness is byexerting pressure with the pincers or tapping the footwith the hammer. Treatment.—Remove the offending instrument orforeign bodies at once when present. Flesh wounds mayrequire incision, and healing fluids must be injected bymeans of a syringe. When joints are punctured, theorifice being small, it may usually be closed by slighttouches with the actual cautery
. The horse : its varieties and management in health and disease. road, arefound embedded in the frog or one of the commissures,sometimes penetrating the joint within and terminatingfatally. The usual method of testing foot lameness is byexerting pressure with the pincers or tapping the footwith the hammer. Treatment.—Remove the offending instrument orforeign bodies at once when present. Flesh wounds mayrequire incision, and healing fluids must be injected bymeans of a syringe. When joints are punctured, theorifice being small, it may usually be closed by slighttouches with the actual cautery or budding iron, givingthe animal perfect rest with fixing of the joint. In punc-tures of the feet the shoe must be removed, the offendingnail being withdrawn at the same time. Having dis-covered the spot, the hole is to be carefully widened bythe small knife called the searcher, in order to evacuateany pus which may have formed or burrowed, togetherwith all dead horn. Cover with a hot poultice frequentlyrenewed until pain is removed. Apply tincture of myrrh. 248 Local Injuries. as a healing fluid, and when the shoe can be borne put amovable leather sole beneath to keep out dirt, &c. Indry weather, simple removal of the nail in recent cases ismostly sufficient, especially at the time the injury hasbeen inflicted. Puncture of the Coffin Joint is often a serious is extreme, especially as synovia flows con-siderably. The remedy is the hot iron to seal up theorifice. The fever attendant upon punctured wounds isoften of a severe character, when the febrifuges drenchNo. 3 may be called for every three or four hours. Poll Evil.—This, with the following, are instancesof bruising with passing through lowdoorways, and housed inlow buildings, strike the topof the head, and the resultis stiffness, poking the noseforward, swelling of the poll,stiffness preceding abscess in fear of being handled, andPoll Evil. eventually, formation and bursting of an absces
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