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. 828.—Turcos leg as it knuckled forward. Sprain of the Perforans Tendon, or Navicular- JoiNT Lameness. The symptoms are very fully explained under that head, butwould here state again, that in an acute stage, the principle isrest, with hot fomentations or cooling ap
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. 828.—Turcos leg as it knuckled forward. Sprain of the Perforans Tendon, or Navicular- JoiNT Lameness. The symptoms are very fully explained under that head, butwould here state again, that in an acute stage, the principle isrest, with hot fomentations or cooling applications; next aidingmobility of the parts involved to prevent irritation, by the con-struction of the shoe, etc. Shoulder is not very common, but is liable to liappen from the SHOULDEE LAMENESS. 965. Tig. As a horse will travel withlame shoulder. limb slipping sideways while runniag in a pasture, or slipping in-cidentally on a wet plank, or ice, etc. To guard against error indiagnosing affections of theshoulder, it must be borne inmind that all muscular tissueis apt to waste if it is deprivedof its usual amount of exercise,as we frequently see in theshoulder; the shoulder shrink-ing on one or both sides, whilethe real seat of the disease is in the feet; therefore it is verynecessary to be able to distinguish shoulder-lameness from manyother affections with which it is apt to be confounded. Manyhorse doctors and those about horses are apt to attribute everylameness they do not understand, and whose seat is not self-evi-dent, to an affection of the shoulder. We have seldom any recognizable tumefaction, nor much heat,unless it be recent and violent. When the horse has strained theshoulder, the limb is brought forward with a peculiar draggingmotion, as shown in Fig. 829; whereas
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