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 . , ostosis. 1. Splint; 2, 3 Enlargements caused by in jury. caused by external injury, or it may be bony eniarge-theresult of constitutional disturbance, ment below-more commonly the former. Its nature, the knee,causes, symptoms, and treatment will be bet
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 . , ostosis. 1. Splint; 2, 3 Enlargements caused by in jury. caused by external injury, or it may be bony eniarge-theresult of constitutional disturbance, ment below-more commonly the former. Its nature, the knee,causes, symptoms, and treatment will be better un-derstood by taking the most common example ofsplint, spavin, and ringbone. Splint, or Splent. Splint is a hard, bony tumor occurring on the inside of theshank or cannon-bone of the fore leg, usually well up near theknee, which is well represented by Fig. 642. It is situated partlyon the splint-bone (from which it takes its name), and partlyon the cannon. Young horses are most subject to splints. Theperiosteum in them being more vascular than in old animals, itis more liable to inflammation, which is very readily induced inthe unsolidified bones of the young horse when exposed to con-cussion or external violence. It occurs in the inside, because thecenter of gravity falls through that part; when there is splint or
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