General Management in Disease 



It is necessarily a disease attended with a large 

 amount of danger, demanding professional skill 

 for its treatment. (See Mortification.) 



Blood Spavin (see Bone Spavin) 



Bog Spavin 



This is a loose term, but most horsemen are 

 familiar with it, as a puffy condition of the hock 

 joint, the degree of distension being variable. It 

 does not necessarily constitute unsoundness, and 

 some horses have a puffy condition of the hock 

 on the morning following active work. 



It is apparently due to a hyper-secretion of 

 synovia, or joint oil, probably through some 

 weakness of the capsular ligament of the joint. 

 Only when it becomes excessive need it be 

 looked upon unfavourably. Blistering will do 

 good, but firing is better, though not always 

 curative, at any rate, permanently. 



Bone Spavin 



A bone spavin comprises a variable-sized deposit 

 of bone, situated upon the inner and lower aspect 

 of the hock, or hocks, in accordance whether one, 

 or both hocks, are affected. 



The Spavin represents nature's method of repair 

 and in some cases a spavined hock is stronger 

 than before ; whereas, in other instances, more 



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