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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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ical contrivance, or any other means? It would seem that the ligaments at the posterior parts of the carpusare in the first instance slightly sprained, giving rise to a disposition onthe part of the animal to refrain from putting them on the stretch, as this,no doubt, would produce a certain amount of pain. To avoid this whenstanding the extensors are a little relaxed, thus allowing the knee to comesomewhat forwards, thereby removing the tension of the ligaments pos-teriorlv. This state of parts we observe only occasionally; for when theanimal is excited, or at work, the limbs resume their natural position. Thisgoes on for a time, but the cause alluded to being still in operation, theal)normal position becomes permanent; and the burste wdiich are situated atthe lateral, inclining to the posterior, part of the limb, a little above theknee, are now more than usually filled, which, if the animal be a valuableone, iniluces the owner to seek advice. This being determined on, it is PLATE XL
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FOAL WITH BOWED LEGS THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM 305 usually recommended that the horse be placed on a mash diet, and have adose of purgative medicine administered to him, and that afterwards he beblistered once or twice and have a long rest—not less than two months.The general result of such a course of procedure is that the animal comesup much improved. He is put to work, which, if hard, in the course oftwo or three months causes his legs again to become as bad as ever. Stillhe is worked on, until finally he is permanently bowed at the knees, notl)eing able, as when at first affected, to stand at times upright. The impediment now consists in a slight thickening and consequentshortening of the ligamentous tissue we have before referred to. No treatment in this advanced stage would be of any avail, whethermedicinal, surgical, or mechanical. Such a horse must be considered asunsound, if the affection exist in more than a slight degree; for althoughwe daily observe horses thus deformed doing

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