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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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in some horses whose hocks arerough or coarse in conformation, unduedevelopment of the head or upper extremityof the outer splint-bone may give the part acurby appearance, especially when the curbis viewed from the outer side. Careful ex-amination, however, will show that the mi-due prominence is limited to the seat of theouter splint-bone, and does not extend acrossthe back of the hock as in curb proper. In addition to swelling, more or less heat, pain, and lameness usuallyresult as the immediate effects of the injury. The action of the horse ispeculiar in the fact that the animal, in endeavouring to relieve the injuredpart, throws the weight of the body on the toe or the front of the foot,according as the case is severe or otherwise, and progresses much after themanner of a horse suffering from spavin. In the slighter forms of thedisease lameness is l)ut little in evidence, and sometimes hardly perceptible,save when weight is placed on the back or .special eflbrt is made in draught.
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Fig. 369.—Curb 302 HEALTH AND DISEASE Treatment.—When the injury is severe and the hnneness acute, thehorse must be placed in a state of absohite rest, and the part well fomentedwith hot water every three or four hours, and a hot l)andage should beworn in the intervals. Strain on the injured structures should be removedby applying a high-heeled shoe to the foot and directing the weight towardsthe toe. A dose of physic and a temporary reduction of the corn rationwill assist in dispersing existing intlammation. When this has been donea blister or two, with rest, will suffice to reduce the swelling. It isseldom that this is altogether removed, but where active treatment ispromptly applied a great reduction may be eftected in it. Hand-rubbingthe part repeatedly with even pressure is often attended with benefit. Ill cases whore theinjury is slight, irri-gation with cold waterfor a dav or two,followed by a blisterand a short rest, isall tliat is needed. Where the en-largement is conside

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