Journal of Agriculture. 



[9 Sept., 1907. 



SHIVERING. 



The nature of this affection of horses and the symptoms of the asso- 

 ciated lameness or irregularity of gait will be fully dealt with in the 

 Chapter on nervous diseases. Its detection has already been referred to- 

 when methods for detecting lameness were being dealt with. (See 

 page 212.) 



STRINGHALT. 



Considered as an " imperfection of action ' ' this affection is entitled 

 to be dealt with under the heading of Lameness. (See Fig. 102.) Its- 

 nnportance, however, from an Australian stand-point, in view of its great 



Fig. 102. Stringhult. (After Dollur.) 



prevalence, its epizootic character and the variation in course and symptoms^ 

 from the standard type of stringhalt met with in other countries, demands 

 separate treatment, which will be given in the Chapter on diseases of the 

 nervous system. 



RHEUMATIC LAMENESS. 



Lameness from rheumatism in horses is of two kinds principally : — 

 First, that which is fleeting or erratic, following on an attack of acute- 

 rheumatism or rheumatic fever ; and secondly that which has its permanent 

 seat in a joint in which rheum.atism has " settled " termed rheumatic 



ARTHRITIS or RHEUMATIC JOINT DISEASE. 



Acute Rheumatism, 



In this case the lameness is intermittent and metastatic or migratory in 

 character. A horse may be lame for a day or perhaps a week, and then 

 appear to go quite sound for a time when the lameness will suddenly 

 develop again in an obviously different part of the limb or in another 



