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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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o refers to numerous cases as coming within his experi-ence in Africa and India, believes that feeding on unnutritious grassesis one of the chief causes of the malady. This statement, however,receives no support from experience in this country, where the caseshitherto recorded have been stabled animals receiving a liberal supply ofgood food. By others it has been attributed to damp and insanitary DISKASES OF BONES •215 stables, and Professor Variiell saw reason to regard it in one instanceas in some way connected with a too exclusive bran diet, and deficiency oflime in the food. It is quite clear that the precise nature and conditionsof the origin of the disease still remain to be determined. Symptoms.—The first noticeable indications of the aflection are slightstitincss and suljsequent lameness in one or more of the limbs, with tender-ness over the region of the joints, winch sooner or later become enlarged. The disease may attack all the limbsmore or less severely at once, or in
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Fig. 321.—Osteo-porosis Bones of the face enlarged, thickened, andrendered soft and spongy.

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