The American reformed horse book, a treatise on the causes, symptoms, and cure of all the diseases of the horse, including every disease peculiar to America, also breeding, rearing, and management . eat trouble in chronic cases of this character is, that itusually takes a long time to free the animal from lameness, and torestore the muscles of the shoulder to their original size; and, afterall we 3an do, it may be necessary to let the animal have a run atgrass. It will be advisable, in all chronic oases, unless the horsebe very lame, to insure regular exercise, which will tend to developthe sh
The American reformed horse book, a treatise on the causes, symptoms, and cure of all the diseases of the horse, including every disease peculiar to America, also breeding, rearing, and management . eat trouble in chronic cases of this character is, that itusually takes a long time to free the animal from lameness, and torestore the muscles of the shoulder to their original size; and, afterall we 3an do, it may be necessary to let the animal have a run atgrass. It will be advisable, in all chronic oases, unless the horsebe very lame, to insure regular exercise, which will tend to developthe shmnken muscles. The best way to prevent sweeny is tr keep the horse in goodoondition by a rational use of his muscular powers, being to overtax thein, and by giving proper attention to bis feet,both m the stable and at the blacksmiths shop. 328 DADDS VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. Thoeough-pin. The seat of thorough-pin is between the popHteous (fig. 2) andthe point of the hock, near where the tendon is severed, as shownin the accompanying engraving. The disease is called thorough-pin, simply because the fluid contained in the bursal sac can besqueezed from one side to the VIEW OF SOME OP THE DREP-SEATED MUSCLES IN THE BEQION OF THE HOCK AN* STir».X. Explanation.—1, Popliteoua ; 2, Flexor pedis accessorius ; 3, Flexor metatarsi rnagnuB;4, The tendon, common both to the flexor metatarsi and ext«nsor pedis; 6, The groove?^ which the extensor plays. Symptoms.—The disease is similar to bog spavin and wind-galls;namely, enlargement of a synovial sac. It seldom if ever lamesa horse, yet, when large, is apt to interfere with the free action ofthe joint. In former years it was customary to open thorough-pins bymeans of a lancet, in view of evacuating the fluid; but many fatal (JIMENESS, FROM VAIllOUS CAUSES. 328 rases having occirred, the practice is now discontinued. Amongthe many fatal cases recorded I select the following, which hasbeen recorded in the Vete
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