CONTENTS 



SECTION I. 



DISEASES OF THE OEGANS OF LOCOMOTION. 



CHAP. PAGE 



Methods op Examination 1 



I. DISEASES OF BONES 3 



General Diseases . 4 



Eachitis 4 



Osseous Cachexia 7 



Local Affections 20 



Fractures 20 



Fractures of the horns 21 



Detachment of the horns ........ 23 



Fissuring of the horns 24 



Fractures of the horns .... .... 25 



Exostoses 27 



Spavin in the ox. 27 



Eing-bone 28 



Suppurating ostitis ......... 29 



Bone tumours 30 



II. DISEASES OF THE FOOT 31 



Congestion of the Chxws ........ 31 



Contusions of the sole 31 



Laminitis . . . . . . . . . . .32 



Sand crack 34 



Pricks and stabs in shoeing ........ 36 



Picked-up nails, etc. (" Gathered nail") 37 



Inflammation of the interdigital space (Condj'lomata) ... 38 



Canker 40 



Grease ........... 41 



Panaritium — Felon — Whitlow 41 



Foot rot ........... 43 



III. DISEASES OF THE SYNOVIAL MEMBEANES AND OF THE 



AETICULATIONS 45 



I. Synovial Membranes and Articulations .... 45 



Synovitis 45 



Inflammation of the patellar synovial capsule . , , , 45 



