The art of taming and educating the horse : 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, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . Fig. 671.—Ring-bone. The joint ancby-losed a«ad enlarged. strain, use cooling applications, and give the horse rest until it passes off, when counter irritation by blister-ing or firing must be resorted to. A ring-bone is a bony excrescence, or en-largement, about the p
The art of taming and educating the horse : 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, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . Fig. 671.—Ring-bone. The joint ancby-losed a«ad enlarged. strain, use cooling applications, and give the horse rest until it passes off, when counter irritation by blister-ing or firing must be resorted to. A ring-bone is a bony excrescence, or en-largement, about the pastern, most frequentlyoccurring in the hind leg. Sometimes it doesnot cause much lameness, while again thelameness may be very severe, and perhaps in-curable. This will depend much upon the lo-cation of the enlargement upon the it be upon the center of the bone, itmay not occasion any trouble ; but if uponthe margin of the joint, it is liable to causemuch lameness. Fig. 671, taken from a pho-tograph, is a front view of an enlarged an- FiG. 673.—Longitudinal , i i • • , • i xp- n^c^ • ,..,,. chylosed lomt, or rmg-bone ; J^ig. 0/2 is a section of joint after • J n o anchylosis. view of another specimen cut through the. DISEASES OF THE BONES. 771 center, showing the joint grown soUcl. I inchidc an iUustration ofquite a bad ring-bone, and the same clipped, lined, and also dottedto show how the firing should be done by the pyro-puncturingprocess. At first there may be a somewhat tender and yielding enlarge-ment, which, in the course of time, becomes a hard bony formation.
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