The stock owner's adviser; the breeding, rearing, management, diseases and treatment of domestic animals . Fig. 53—Sprung Hock. Treatment.—The special treatment is the use of the slingsand the animoniacal liniment. After the acute symptoms havesubsided the biniodlde of mercury ointment should be used to 212 THE STOCK OWXER S ADVISEE. absorb the callus enlargement. It may be necessary to use tbeactual cautery. BONE SPAVIN. A bone spavin may be defined to be an exostosis on the innerand lower part of tbe bock, arising from inflammation of tbejoint, terminating generally in anchylosis of one or m
The stock owner's adviser; the breeding, rearing, management, diseases and treatment of domestic animals . Fig. 53—Sprung Hock. Treatment.—The special treatment is the use of the slingsand the animoniacal liniment. After the acute symptoms havesubsided the biniodlde of mercury ointment should be used to 212 THE STOCK OWXER S ADVISEE. absorb the callus enlargement. It may be necessary to use tbeactual cautery. BONE SPAVIN. A bone spavin may be defined to be an exostosis on the innerand lower part of tbe bock, arising from inflammation of tbejoint, terminating generally in anchylosis of one or more of tbe. Fig. 54—Bone Spavin. gliding joints of tbe bock. Bone spavin is very rarely found ontbe outer side of tbe bock. It arises from causes tbat are heredi-tary or constitutional and local. Tbe hereditary disposition tobone spavin is beyond a doubt, being well known to breeders ofhorses. This predisposition is not a peculiarity of conformation,as many breeds with very fine hocks often become unsound fromspavin. The local exciting causes of spavin are sprains of the liga- I A SPRAIN OR STRAIlSr. 213 ments and concussion. High-calked shoes often cause it. Thehock tied in below, or sickle-shaped, is the form most suscepti-ble to spavin. The lameness of bone spavin is, as a rule, remov-able in the young and middle aged, but generally incurable inhorses past twelve years or their prime. Pathology.—Bone spavin is an inflammation of the bonesand inter-osseous ligaments. The inflammation originates in the
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