52 ROE ON THE HORSE. 



ing and doubling either of above doses if the 

 symptoms demand. When a great amount of 

 mucus is being discharged, and inflammation is 

 apprehended in the case use my counter-irritant 

 liniment, mz: Spirits Ammonia 2 ounces, Alco- 

 holic Spirits of Camphor 2 ounces, Turpentine 2 

 ounces, and as soon as well blended by agita- 

 tion, saturate the body over stomach and bow- 

 els, repeating two or three times per day, keep- 

 ing covered with oil cloth to prevent evapora- 

 tion. Nurse carefully and feed a little rye 

 bran, two or three times per day, with the marsh 

 or timothy hay the horse will eat. 



LAMENESS IN THE COFFIN JOINT, 



Probably there is no lameness that ever 

 affected the horse, so dark and baffling to the 

 horseman, and even to the skill of the scientific 

 and experienced Veterinarian, as this most blind 

 and insidious disease. This joint is composed 

 of three bones: Os Pedis, Navicular and Small 

 Pastern bones, in which are seated this lameness, 

 which is known by the horse walking by purchas- 

 ing upon the sound limb, and only touching the 

 tip-toe of affected foot, in which the inflamma- 

 tion has sometimes run so high as to bring about 

 suppuration and anchilosis of that joint. In 

 cases protracted, the frog is almost obliterated, 

 arid where the cause of lameness appears posi- 

 tively in that joint, pick up the foot and move 

 it every possible way, to learn what particular 

 motion gives most pain, and there is no one test 



