The care of animals : a book of brief and popular advice on the diseases and ailments of farm animals . 232 The Care of Animals is sometimes caused by a sharp-shod horse stepping on its mate so as to injure the joint. The symptoms of ring-bone are severe lameness, with inflammation of the joint as shown by heat, pain and swelling. These symp-toms are followed by a bonybunch, thrown out usuallytoward the side of the joint;or the exostosis may form aring nearly around the treatment for ring-bone is the same as that forSpavin, except that firing isto be resorted to oc
The care of animals : a book of brief and popular advice on the diseases and ailments of farm animals . 232 The Care of Animals is sometimes caused by a sharp-shod horse stepping on its mate so as to injure the joint. The symptoms of ring-bone are severe lameness, with inflammation of the joint as shown by heat, pain and swelling. These symp-toms are followed by a bonybunch, thrown out usuallytoward the side of the joint;or the exostosis may form aring nearly around the treatment for ring-bone is the same as that forSpavin, except that firing isto be resorted to occur on a muchmore important joint than thespavins. More motion takesplace at the pastern-joint,and as a result ring-bonesare more difficult to treatment, as commonlj^expressed by horsemen, is tofire, blister and turn out tois welded together, the ring-A horse having a Fig. enlargement. grass. When the joint bone is said to be cured. even though he is cured, has a decided limp, owing to the welding together of the bones, of such an important joint. Such animals are useful only for performing slow work. Splint in Horses 233 BIG-KNEE AND OTHER ENLARGEMENTS Big-knee in horses is comparable with ring-bone orspavin, except that it occurs at the knee-joint. Thereis inflammation, followed by a bonj^ bunch, or exostosis,and often by anchylosis. Firing, a blister and restcomprise the best treatment. Horses affected in thisway are of little value. Inflammation followed by exostosis and anchylosismay occur at almost any joint in the body. The symp-toms and treatment are practically the same as forring-bone, spavins and big-knee. SPLINT A splint is an exostosis occurring on the inside ofthe fore leg below the knee, between the splint-boneand the cannon-bone. It rarely occurs on the out-side, or on the hind leg, and such cases are prob-ably due to a
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