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location, and the nature of the structures involved. 

 Repeated friction, or long continued compression on 

 the Withers, may injure the muscular anclligamentous 

 parts, and give rise to a painful swelling, which, if 

 not speedily relieved or appropriately treated, may 

 terminate in an abscess, which, failing to come to the 

 surface, may sink more and more among the liga- 

 ments and cartilages, extending to the very bones of 

 the spine. 



TREAIMENT. When the difficulty is still fresh, the 

 swelling may be dispersed by applying the MARVEL, 

 to the implicated surface, and giving fifteen drops of 

 the Specific, A A, for FEVER three times per day. 

 But if matter has formed, it must be opened at its 

 lowest point, and the matter evacuated and the 

 Specific for ULCERS, I, I, given morning and night 

 in doses of fifteen drops. Consult also the article 

 on FISTULAS. 



Fractures. 



Fractures of the bones of the horse occasionally 

 occur in consequence of some severe blow, contusion, 

 fall, or other injury. They are discoverable from 

 the difference in shape, the swelling, lameness of the 

 part, and especially by the "CREPITUS," or grating 

 sound, which occurs from moving the two fractured 

 ends of bone together. In all doubtful cases, this 

 crepitation is the reliable criterion. In the more pal- 

 pable cases, the distortion, loss of the use of the part^ 

 sPnd extensive swelling, remove all doubt. 



Among the most common are fractures of the ribs, 

 forming a swelling over the place, which is very sen- 



