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 . congestion, and inflammation in the feet. To relieve the pain inthe feet he endeavors to throw his weight upon the hind advances them in front, resting principally on the heels, 828 DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. when the hind ones are drawn well under him, soni(
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 . congestion, and inflammation in the feet. To relieve the pain inthe feet he endeavors to throw his weight upon the hind advances them in front, resting principally on the heels, 828 DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. when the hind ones are drawn well under him, soni(,>thing like theposition shown in Fig. 730. On backing him. ho backs with e\i-dent reluctance; when forced back, hedrags one foot after the other, evincingconsiderable pain in doing so. When movedforward, he Avalks on the heels, his move-ments being slow and difficult. He willoften be found lying down, as removingweight from the feet gives relief; and whiledown he will usually point with his nosetoward the feet. Sometimes the inflamma-tion may be in but one of the fore feet,or sometimes in the hind feet, which is notcommon ; and in some isolated cases mayhave inflammation in all four feet; but itis usually limited to the two fore feet. Causes.—Laminitis is very apt to occurfrom overtasking the feet by pounding them.
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