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CAN EMBROCATION made twice a day, rub in well and ap- 

 ply a piece of sponge or rag which has been soaked in 

 the EMBROCATION, retaining it with a flannel bandage. 

 In nine cases out of ten, this will effect a cure in from 

 two to four weeks. In cases that resist these compara- 

 tively mild measures, recourse should be had to the fir- 

 ing iron, followed by a cantharides blister. I have 

 found two or three cases in which on post-mortem ex- 

 amination, small bony tumors with sharp edges 01 

 points something like a knife, have grown out at the 

 back of the metacarpal bone, and of course, right under 

 the suspensory ligament, causing lameness whenevei 

 the animal was subjected to labor. In those cases it 

 was impossible to discover the cause of the lameness, 

 and it would have been useless to have attempted a 

 cure even if the cause had been discovered. A horse 

 that has perfectly sound action should not be considered 

 unsound because splints are present ; on the contrary, 

 uhe limb is certainly stronger after the so-called splint 

 has become fully developed, than t was previous to the 

 beginning of the growth. 



SPAVIN. 



In this place we shall treat of the diseases known as 

 bone-spavin only, leaving the consideration of bog and 

 blood-spavins for notice in another place. 



It has usually been considered that the enlargement 

 which occurs on the inside of the hock joint constitutes 

 the disease known as bone-spavin. This narrow inter- 



