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wimi w«' want. TIh' applw'ution of an arnica lininuMiL, or vinegar 

 iind wormwood, will be caik'd for, and apj)!} it over the joint and 

 <\vy it in with a hot brick You can be sure that you have got it ba(-k 

 into phice, because the liorse cannot step until you do. 



A gt'ntleuiaii c.iine to mv oftlce some time ago and wanted that I 

 should look at his horse tliat had his stifle out. Said I, "where is 

 be?" He said, "he i.s out at the door." ''I guess not; 1 guess 

 your horse with a dislocated stifle is not able to be driven. His sti- 

 fle may have been out. but it isn't out now, for he could not step 

 with such an injury. Hut it may have sli[)ped l)ack into place of it- 

 self, and that is often the case." 



We get a stifle joint disease in cows that is very troublesome. 

 In the Farminston vallev, in Connecticut, a tuberculous disease has 

 been prevalent in their cows, connected with a disease of the joint, 

 known as tubercular s} novitis. It starts from an injury and is fol- 

 lowed by a tuberculous deposit that sets up an ulceration and ab- 

 sorption of the articular cartilage of the joint, and the cow becomes 

 very lame. When that disease first appeared at Farmington, none 

 of us understood what it was, and it was known onl}' as the "'Farm- 

 ington cattle lameness." But it may be the Androscoggin valle3' 

 <iattle lameness just a» well. The trouble is that the cartilage is ab- 

 sorbed on one condile and not on the other, and thus the joint is 

 distorted ; the cow will be extremely lame, stepping with the lame 

 leg several inches wider than natural, and you will find an enlarge- 

 ment around that joint, an ossified deposit like the excrescence of 

 spavin and ring-bone. That is a form of lameness that is not very 

 effectually treated, and but few cases recover from that. I fed those 

 cows largely on bone meal ; I applied a good strong iodine liniment 

 to the part, and gave them as much rest as possible, took them out 

 of the pasture and gave them a box stall. 



The next joint from our knee is the ankle, which corresponds to 

 the hock joint of the horse ; and this reminds me of a little story 

 that may interest you. While serving once as an expert, in the Su- 

 perior Court of Connecticut, the Judge attempted to make the case 

 a little clearer, by asking me to show the relation between the bones 

 of our hand and a horse's foot. Thinking he was not quite up in 

 his anatomy sufficiently to understand rae, even though a Judge, I 

 hesitated a moment. He said, "Well, no matter, I take it it is an 

 axiom that my knee corresponds to a horse's forward knee." Said 

 1, "I beg your pardon." The Judge, being indignant to have his 



