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Title: The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London, Gresham Pub. Co.
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ed hopefully, the majority of cases making slow Init complete re-covery. Rest in slings has been mentioned already; soothing fomentationsapplied o\er the region of the back and warm enemas given frequently willprove helpful; an aperient dose of aloes at first and subsecjuent carefulregulation of the bowels by judicious dieting is also advised. At a later period, and prior to a run at grass, a blister over the loinsis applied, and, if necessary, repeated. With a view to promoting the SPRAIN OR STRAIN 299 renewal of muscular tone and power, strychnine and iron in smallrepeated doses will also be helpful. SPRAIN AND RUPTURK OF THE FLEXOR METATARSI The fuiic-lion of this miisclo is to Hex the canon on the hock andadvance the liml). The action displayed by our best movers is for themost part due to its vigorous contractions. Arising from the lower endof the femur or thigh-bone, it terminates below in a number of strongtendinous coi-ds. some of which are inserted into the small bones of the
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Fig. 368.—Rupture of the Flexor Metatar.si tarsus and others in the upper and front part of the metatarsal or canonbone. Sprain to this muscle or its tendon, although not of common occur-rence, is more frec(uently the cause of lameness behind than is generallyallowed, and the writer has observed on several occasions the developmentof spavin to follow upon sprain to the tendons which insert themselvesinto the Ixmes of the hock. Whether in these cases the ossific develop-ment was the direct consequence of the sprain cannot be definitely stated. The cau.ses which stretch and strain the flexor metatarsi are chieflythose which unduly and forcibly extend the limb, such as violent kicking,slipping backward on to the front of the fetlock while carrying or drawing-great weights, severe efforts in withdrawing the feet from deep ground or 300 HEALTH AND DISEASE rabbit holes while galloping, or when fixed in railway points, as occursto horses engaged in shunting. Symptoms.—In sprain to the te

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