ITfi SCURVICAL ERUPTIONS. STRAINS. 



ceive the concussion more sharply than the outer one; for, as I before observe^ 

 «plents oftener occur on the inside of the leg than on any other part of it. 



MALLENDERS AND SALLENDERS. 



Scurvy eruptions on the bend of the knee-joints, or on the correspondint 

 bend in the hock joint; the first mentioned term being applied to those erup- 

 tions that appear upon the fore leg, the second, sallender, is confined to thosti 

 of the hinder leg. A crack, wilh much soreness, accompanies both. — The 

 cause may be found in the gross habit of body, attended by suppression of somf 

 evacuation, as stool, urine, or perspiration ; therefore, to 



Cure the patient, restore the defective evacuation by giving one of the two 

 purging-balls prescribed at pages 86, 87, according to circumstances ; or a urine- 

 ball, or the emetic tartar, at page 65, or 113, in smaller doses, and the scurf 

 decreases until it wholly disappears. 



Let the hair be cut off close from the part affected, and the scurf well wash- 

 ed with strong soap-suds, and then rub over it daily, of the 



Ointment for Scurvy Eruption. 



Red precipitate powder, half an ounce. 

 Hog's lard, 2 ounces. Mixed well together. 



Sometimes, a poultice, m which is introduced acetated litharge, becomes ne 

 cessary when the eruption is divided by a gaping crack, which the ointment 

 may have occasioned. The blue ointment is employed by some instead of 

 the above ointment. 



STRAINS.— LAMENESS. 



These are the most deceptions class of ailments attributed to the foot of the 

 horse ; for many such are spoken of in the most confident manner which do 

 not exist in reality, whilst others could not possibly happen to the parts indi- 

 cated by the names they commonly bear ; yet shall I fall into this old method 

 of titling the various affections of the limbs, in order to make myself more gene- 

 rally understood. Our neighbours, and rival veterinarians, the French, in the 

 instructions issued to their smiths of the army, went a little farther in their 

 complaisance to error : " All swellings of the tendons from the knee to the 

 coronet or from the hock to the heel, show an extension or strain of the in- 

 tegument. Take off the shoe and pare the foot." In fact, their practice of 

 giving rest in all cases of strain, which often effects a cure with very little 

 further assistance, could not be more assuredly complied with than by thus 

 taking off the shoes; for the Marechallerie were ill able to retain their sick 

 horses in quarters upon urgent occasions of active service, unless they co\ild 

 demonstrate the fact upon the view to their superiors. By this general mode 

 of forming their judgment as to the cause of all swellings before or behind, we 

 may perceive they included all "extensions" of the bone in their notions of a 

 strain, and treated spavin, splent, curb, strain of the tendons and ligaments, all 

 in the same manner at first. Of these latter-mentioned we come next to con- 

 wder the distinguishing symptoms and most appropriate methods of cure ; and 

 1 will here candidly allow, at setting out, that our neighbours took a correct 

 viovv of the general cause of all lameness : those strains which occasion in- 

 flammation of the ligaments, tendons, and muscles, always communicate fever 

 to the foot, whence arise thrush, canker, sand crack, &c. &c. We very im- 

 [jroperly, as far as precision is concerned, terni all lameness of th j tondona 



