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the capsular, or sack-like ligaments, as of the shoulder and hip- 

 joint. 



Lipoma. — A variety of fatty tumor. (See Tumors.) 



Liver. — The liver is the largest secreting gland of the body, 

 situated within the short ribs on the right side. Its function is 

 the secretion of bile — a ^^ellow alkaline or soapy fluid. 



Without the liver, digestion and animal heat cannot be main- 

 tained, and the waste or effete matter cannot be removed from the 

 blood. So, therefore, when the liver is disturbed, there can be no 

 health in the rest of the system. 



Inflammation of the Liver. — The horse is rarely the subject of 

 inflammation of this organ in an acute, but more commonly in a 

 chronic form. It is often met with from the fact of many horses 

 being highly fed, and having nothing to do. 



Symptoms. The affected part is very obtuse. But we have a very 

 striking analogy of this disease between man and the horse, which 

 materiall}^ assists in forming a correct opinion as to the disease. 

 Pain and lameness in the right shoulder are characteristic of liver 

 disease, whether in man or horse, and have often been mistaken 

 for and treated as the disease itself. Not less so is the peculiar 

 yellowness of the membranes of the eyes, nose and mouth, con- 

 stituting a disease called by old horse doctors the yellows. 



Treatment. Give powdered aloes, four drachms; powdered 

 ginger root, two drachms; podophyllin, one drachm. Mix, and 

 make into a paste with molasses, and form a bolus, or crumble 

 the mass in a little thin gruel, and drench the horse with it. Feed 

 the horse with green and soft feed to keep the bowels open. 



These measures being neglected, suppuration or an abscess will 

 be formed, and break into the bowels, or become absorbed and 

 produce glanders, which I believe to be a prolific cause of this 

 disease, and which is preceded by ill health and bad habit of 

 body, terminating by a mysterious and unaccountable discharge 

 from the nose, inasmuch as it is not accompanied with cough, and 

 other symptoms of cold. 



Locked-jaw. — This disease occurs usually after wounds of the 

 feet, as from nails running into the feet, from wounds and frac- 

 tures, and from a simple wound of a tendinous portion of the body. 

 Locked-jaw occurring after wounds or other injuries, is called trau- 



