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tender condition and easily the subject of change, when 

 conditions are unfavorable to the normal development 

 of the bone. Winter training is particularly adapted 

 to act as a cause of sore shins, on account of the severe 

 concussions to which horses are subject when galloped 

 on frozen ground. 



Symptoms Lameness in one or both limbs, after 

 becoming very pronounced in a day or two, slight swell- 

 ing, usually beginning on the front of 

 the lower part of the metacarpal bone 

 and sometimes extending upward, 

 and to the sides. This swelling will 

 have a doughy feel. There will be a 

 good deal of .tenderness 011 pressure 

 being applied. When very severe 

 there is some fever and occasionally a 

 loss of appetite. 



Treatment. If the disease is dis- 

 covered early, the leg should be placed 

 in a bucket of hot water as warm as 

 can be comfortably borne by the hand 

 and renewed as often as required, to 

 be continued for two or three hours, 

 after which HEARD'S AMERICAN EMBRO- 

 CATION should be well rubbed in and a 

 woolen bandage applied. This treat- 

 ment to be repeated in twelve hours fig. 22. Metacarpal 

 and continued until the skin gets bone Bhowln 8 effectfl 



. IT,! of sore shins. 



somewhat roughened the same as 

 in a very light blister. This will usually be much bet- 

 ter than blistering, because the soothing influence is 

 more continuously applied. When severe, it is also ad- 

 visable to give a cathartic ball containing four or five 



