CONDITION OF HUNTERS RESUMED 277 



Certain is it, that a judicious use of the phleme is one 

 of the most important operations in practice, and our 

 chief dependence in the early stages of some acute 

 and dangerous inflammations, for when this has 

 been copiously resorted to, medicine acts under the 

 most favourable circumstances, and many lives are 

 saved by it. 



I confess I have never seen much benefit derived 

 from topical bleeding ; but let it not be supposed 

 that I mean to deny the benefit of it. I only here 

 speak from my own experience. One hint, however, 

 should not be disregarded — bleed in proportion to 

 strength and powers of life} 



CURBS 



The term " curb " is applied to a variously sized 

 convexity a few inches below, and in the same straight 

 line, with the point of the hock. 



One or both hocks may be " curby," and the curbs 

 equal or unequal in size. 



The so-called " curby hocks " are most necessarily 

 affected with curb, this term being employed to in- 

 dicate sickle-shaped or over-bent hocks. It is 

 hocks of this conformation that are particularly prone 

 to the development of curb. It is chiefly during the 

 " formative " stage that lameness is present, but the 

 legacy of the inflammatory action, i.e. the curb, does 

 sometimes cause recurrent lameness owing to fresh 



^ Bleeding is not much practised by veterinary surgeons in the 

 present day. It is useful in the case of a plethoric animal attacked 

 with acute pulmonary engorgement, and in the early stages of 

 acute founder. — Editor. 



