68 LIST OF SPECIFICS AND REMEDIES. 



feet. Should there be quite high fever, the horse 

 down, or scarcely able to move, the Specific for 

 Fever, No. 1, may be alternated with that for 

 Founder,, No. 2, as often as every two hours, and 

 after the force of the disease has abated, the Spe- 

 cific No. 2 may be continued alone at increasing 

 intervals, until entire restoration. 



When the disease is clearly traceable to over- 

 feeding, the Specific for Founder, No. 2, and that 

 for Indigestion, No. 10, may be alternated from 

 the first, every three or four hours. 



In case of chronic Founder, the Specific for 

 Founder, No. 2, should be given, a dose of five 

 drops each morning and night, and the treatment 

 continued for some time. An occasional dose of 

 the Specific for Indigestion, No. 10, will be useful 

 as a constitutional intercurrent remedy. 



NAVICULAR JOINT DISEASE. 



This disease is far more frequent than is usu- 

 ally supposed, and many horses are ruined by it, 

 the lameness being generally referred to the 

 shoulder or some other part not at all in fault. 



Behind and beneath the lower pastern-bone in 

 the heel of the horse, and behind and above the 

 heel of the coffin-bone, is a small bone called the 

 navicular, or shuttle-bone. It is so placed as to 

 strengthen the union between the lower pastern 

 and coffin-bone, and to enable the flexor tendon, 

 which passes over it, to be inserted into the bot 

 torn of the coffin-bone, to act with more advan- 

 tage. It thus forms a kind of joint with that ten- 



