WIND-GALLSBANDAGING 



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the largest bone of the foot. Ring bone is of a similar 

 nature, but it ultimately involves one or both of the adjoin- 

 ing articulations. 



Wind-galls, or soft tares (French, vessigori), in whatever 

 site, are distensions of "articular or tendinous synovial sheaths " 

 due, like bony tares (spavins, curbs, and side bones) to fatigue 

 and strains which have irritated their lining membranes and 

 caused an excessive secretion of synovia (albuminous lubri- 

 cating fluid). Although not usually causing lameness when 

 soft and not very large, they are liable after hard work to get 



FIG. 25. COMMON HIND QUARTERS. 



From Galvayne's Twentieth Century Book on the Horse. 



FIG. 26. WELL-BRED HIND QUARTERS, 

 for a thoroughbred or Arab horse. 



very tense and give rise to troublesome lameness, necessitat- 

 ing blistering or firing. They have been known to calcify. 



Bandaging is at once a prevention and a cure, and it is 

 sometimes associated with cold - water irrigation through 

 the hose-pipe or sea or salt-water bathing. The " New- 

 market" stable bandage without seam or hem is of proper 

 width and length, and can be conveniently used wet or dry 

 to bandage the fore leg up to the knee joint. Smoothly and 

 uniformly put on, it should give sufficient pressure to support 

 the weak parts without interfering with the blood circulation. 



The hollow of the flank, or " melt " hole, is the upper part of 

 the flank, or the depression between the last rib and the 



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