IO4 MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY 



SPRAIN OF THE COFFIN-JOINT. 



This disease is indicated by a sudden lameness ; 

 and a considerable heat exists round the coronet, as 

 well as tenderness, which gives the animal pain when 

 pressed upon. Sprain of the coffin-joint sometimes 

 becomes a very bad complaint, in consequence of its 

 being so often unobserved by grooms or even farriers, 

 and it becomes deeply rooted before it is detected. 

 Above all others, this complaint is frequently con- 

 founded with lameness of the shoulder. 



REMEDIES. The first thing to be tried is hot 

 fomentations : and afterwards a blister should be ap- 

 plied, and at the same time the animal should have 

 occasional doses of physic. The following laxative 

 may be given : 



Barbadoes aloes . . 4 to 8 drachms, 

 Calomel i drachm, 



Jalap J drachm ; 



to be given in the form of a ball. 



RINGBONE. 



This is one of the worst species of lameness which 

 is incidental to the horse. Whenever it exists, even 

 in the slightest degree, it comes under the character of 

 unsoundness, because it is so liable to increase ; and 

 when the bony deposit begins to enlarge, the lameness 

 becomes incurable. This complaint commences in 

 one of the pasterns, and usually near to the joint. It 

 is liable to spread rapidly. When the first deposit is 

 on and surrounds the lower pastern, emanating from a 

 violent inflammation of the ligaments, a small enlarge- 

 ment or bony process is to be perceived immediately 

 above the coronet (see Plate vi, fig. 8, b). The hind 



