150 now TO EDUCATE HORSES. 



mentation should be resorted to at the first discovery 

 of the lameness, applying hot blankets (to be kept on 

 the parts affected), and hand-rubbing well, will often 

 relieve in a few days. Veterinarians have of late in- 

 serted a seton in the shoulder over the parts affected, 

 often at the same time in the chest, thus getting up a 

 counter irritation and drawing the soreness through 

 the skin with the seton; also apply a sweating liniment 

 and hand-rub well. Horses have been treated with 

 very good success by the mode last laid down. Rest 

 is very essential until the patient is fully recovered. 



CAUSE OF SPLINT. 



A good deal of speculation is afloat as to the cause 

 of splint. We are aware that it may be produced by 

 a blow or injury in the form of a sprain. If it comes 

 from a blow or injury in the form of a sprain, we 

 should be apt to consider the animal himself the cause 

 of it by striking the opposite foot; although he gener- 

 ally strikes the fetlock, called interfering, or else the 

 inside of the knee; but he may once in a while have an 

 ill-adapted shoe placed on his foot, and then, in con- 

 sequence of being reined up suddenly or getting 

 one foot into a hole, may, without the knowledge of 

 the owner or person riding or driving, inflict a slight 

 blow on the inside of the hind foot, which may prove, 

 in a predisposed subject, the exciting cause of the 

 affection. 



Cases of long standing, and even one having well 

 marked tumor stiffness or lameness, may be relieved 

 by an occasional application of a cantharides blister. 

 Some surgeons blister for the cure of splint, others 

 saw off the tumor, but unfortunately I am of the opin- 

 ion that splint is no more curable than the spavin or 



