. The principles and practice of veterinary surgery . emove. An injury to the inferior part of the suspensory ligament,whether involving it above the bifurcation, or confined to onebranch only, may cause sesamoiditis by extension of the inflam-mation; but, as a rule, it is due to sprain of the tendon orinjury to the cartilage of incrustation. The special treatment consists inthe application of a higb-beeled shoe,and if the lameness be in a hindlimb and very severe, placing theanimal in slings, and the constantapplication of cold water. After thesubsidence of the inflammation, theabsorption of
. The principles and practice of veterinary surgery . emove. An injury to the inferior part of the suspensory ligament,whether involving it above the bifurcation, or confined to onebranch only, may cause sesamoiditis by extension of the inflam-mation; but, as a rule, it is due to sprain of the tendon orinjury to the cartilage of incrustation. The special treatment consists inthe application of a higb-beeled shoe,and if the lameness be in a hindlimb and very severe, placing theanimal in slings, and the constantapplication of cold water. After thesubsidence of the inflammation, theabsorption of the enlargement is besteffected by the use of Mr. Broadstruss. The inferior suspensory ligamentsof the sesamoid bones are occasionallysprained, causing great lameness, theanimal going on tbe toe, with swellingin tbe hollow of the heel. In some rare instances, the liga-mentous structures in this part of thelimb have been converted into osseousmaterial (osteophytes), forming com-plete rings round the tendons.—(SeePhoto-lithograph, Plate I., Fig. 4.). Fio. 44.—False ring-bone,shown at a, a. RING-BONES. This term is applied to the osseous deposits which arefound upon the upper and lower pastern bones, but vnth 286 PAKTIGULAE LAMENESSES. more propriety to those which take the form of a ring roundthe bone. Eing-bone is of two kinds, true and false. The false ring-bone may be dismissed in a few words; it is an exostosis,situated about the middle of the os suffraginis, due to an in-creased development of one or both of the roughened ridges on this bone, whichgive attachment tothe sesamoideanligaments. Whenvery large, it maycause lameness; asa rule, however, itnever gives incon-venience to theanimal, and is notalways to be look-ed upon as a causeof unsoundness. Itmay be comparedto a splint thrownout for some bene-ficial purpose. The true ring-bone is quite an-other matter, andis an unsoundnessin every sense ofthe word, involv-ing important arti-culations, and giv-ing rise to obsti-n
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