The horse / by William Youatt ; with a treatise on draught by I.K. Brunel ; and an appendix intended to advance the work to the present state of veterinary science by W.C. Spooner.

Youatt, William, 1776-1847.

Date:: [1831]

Credit: The horse / by William Youatt ; with a treatise on draught by I.K. Brunel ; and an appendix intended to advance the work to the present state of veterinary science by W.C. Spooner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Jarged, as well as converted into bone. This is less frequently the con- sequence of strains than the other disease, and it is oftLrfLnd with heavy cart-horses than with lighter horses. Indeed, witirmany hor e there seems a predisposition to change their cartilaginous structure into bone The exct.ng cause of these false ringbones is concussion p^o duced by the we.ght of the animal and the hardness of the road orVavel ment. I hus, on the London stones the disease is very common • for th^ same reason, it is the fore limbs where the disease occurs, in nine cases r h ^t'^' ^'^^ ^ ^'ghones are more commoa m the fore feet than the hind ones. nnon The best treatment for ringbones of either kind is, after the inflamma- 'ff'^ '■'^^'^ '^^''g applications, to fire n^ off ff''' Tl'li^ of mercury ointment, E • I,- f^'^ succeeded in removing fhe lameness • a=tfrf:i:et:°^'^' '-^^^^--^ ^ (61.) PAGE 255.—Strain of the RotJND Bone. inslnce'^''?he '^''^^^^V r*-e that we have seldom met with an tertPd ^i. . . ^ '''^S' ^^'^■•ed, and so well pro- occmi;^'' Wnl ^^^^ ''j- -^ 'i''-' d- ocaCn are hv n^ •' 'l T- '^'^^ tenderness about the part we inTu?v FT2r''t^ '.PP?^^ '•^d bone is the^seat of n''fi!\- 7' ^'*b°^^bto be the case tliat all obscure lamenesses ;n the hmd extremity were referred to some supposed disease In thiJ jomt, we are now well assured by po.t .«or^eJLaminat.ons that in Whl :r '^7^-- of disease is the hock joint! tenTp/n ^'ghj^Orhood of the hip joint is injured, there is external tenderness, evmced on pressure, and the^'mischief fs produced b; e^te'nal (62.) PAGE 263.—Stifle Lameness. dislase ZuZ^- ^'^^^ '^^ frequently the seat of to hint! f ^b°^^' situation, it is rather exposed strit7hit:^;fl \%Yn;Tt^ ^ narrow gateway^ard^rus will pJint n. • • . Swellmg, and heat, and tenderness the case ' '''^Sh very unfrequent, is yet occasionally cooT!nVaTpSor;st?tT''''r T'T ^ ^^P'^''^ fomentations and dued- wlK !r ? P^!' ^^^^'^'^^ 1 ^'^e inflammation is sub- vein i^sSeule^tS'''^^^'^^^^ b'^'^J'^' f'-o- the of the jornt WhS 'th ''^'^ -gl^bourhood will ]d Z - II ^ inflammation is subdued, a blister on the ioint bill: zti^T.;' ^= «$