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. 673.—Ring-bone as it usuallyappears. Fig. 674.—As a ring-bone should be firedby the first method. Second, the horse may make an effort to relieve the pressure from the heels or toe, according to the location of the inflammation. Should he raise the heels, then rais


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. 673.—Ring-bone as it usuallyappears. Fig. 674.—As a ring-bone should be firedby the first method. Second, the horse may make an effort to relieve the pressure from the heels or toe, according to the location of the inflammation. Should he raise the heels, then raise the heel-calks and round the toe. If on the other hand he seems to throw pressure upon the heels, then lower the heel and round the toe. In the fore feet, at any rate, it will be necessary to round the toe sharply, which will greatly relieve the strain upon the joint by enabling the foot to roll easily, or turn upon the toe. The best method of doing this is by the Roburg shoe, illustrations of which are given in Shoeing, and Navicular- Joint Lameness. Clip the parts, as shown in Fig. 675, then blister or fire, as explained for .spavin. There should be no blistering or fijjing around the heel under thtj. Fig. —Method of firing by the Pyro-puncturing process. 772 DISEASES AND THEIK TREATMENT. fetlock, as this would cause breaking, or an irritation of the skin,which would be very annoying and difficult to heal. Side-Bone or False Ring-Bone. Side-bone, properly speaking, is not exostosis, but ossification ofan already existing structure, it being ossification of the lateralcartilages of the ospedis, or bone of the foot. It is most common in the fore feet, especially where the pas-terns are short and straight. SyTYiptoms.—The lateral cartilages, whichin health are soft and flexible, become en-larged, project above the hoof, and are hardand bony. While the inflammatory processis going on, there is heat and pain in thepart, and consequently lameness, which inmost cases


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