IT^ APPLICATIONS IN EXTENDED STRAINS. 



very bad cases, or where a slight attack has continued some time, the ligament 

 that passes between the back sinew and the pastern bones becomes greatly 

 diseased, and conducts the inflammation to the foot, affecting alike the sole^ 

 the cofl[in-bone, and the hoof, with heat. 



"Fever in the foot" is that low state of the symptoms which arises from a 

 slight attack which has been neglected; the more virulent attack must come 

 under separate notice. 



Cure. — Rest is indispensable; foment the entire foot with warm bran- 

 water, or make the whole into a poultice sufficient to envelope the foot all 

 over, as high as the inflammation may extend, which is sometimes as far up 

 as the fetlock. When the heat is greatest at the sole, and the fever extends 

 no higher than the coronet, a stuffing of cow-dung will reduce the heat con- 

 siderably; it may be secured by thin splinters of wood, and changed twice the 

 first day or two— once a day afterwards. Introduce a strong solution of 

 nitre, and let it be strong, as you can not employ much of it. Both legs should 

 be stuffed at the sole, though the sound one (if one only be affected) does not 

 require changing. Let the animal have a loose stall during any stage of 

 strain, or disorder of the limbs. Look after his evacuations, and cause them 

 to be regular : a simple fever (or inflammation) of the foot depending very 

 often upon nothing more than one or the other of these being stopped, 

 which affects the whole animal system sometimes, to say nothing of a single 

 limb. 



Violent strains* and swelling above the fetlock joint, when the lameness is 

 very great, require strong physic ; and the inflammatory symptoms, when 

 running very high, with a quick and irregular pulse, should be lowered by 

 bleeding. Apply fomentations of bran, or a poultice of the same, or of oat- 

 meal in which saturnine lotion has been introduced, as much as it will bear. 

 When the great heat of the part has caused dryness of the poultice, saturate 

 it externally with the saturnine lotion, either by soaking cloths in it, and 

 spreading these all over the part affected, or in a poultice as above. 



Afler this treatment has reduced the inflammatory symptoms, but not the 

 swelling and lameness, apply opodeldoc, which may be made as under, viz. 

 No. 1. Embrocations. If this does not fully succeed in the course of three 

 or four days, recourse must be had to No. 2 : and if this does not prove suffi- 

 ciently stimulating, apply the mild blister No. 3. 



Embrocations for Strains. — No. L 



Spirits of wine, 6 ounces, 

 Camphor, half an ounce. 

 Soap, 2 ounces. 



Dissolve the camphor in half the spirits; mix the remainder with the soap^ 

 and then put both together. Rub the parts assiduously twice or three times 

 during the day. 



No. 2. 



Crude sal ammoniac, 2 ounces, 

 Vinegar, 1 quart. 



• The won! strain, as here employed, is evidently used in the wrong sense : ft shookl b» 

 fprain, i. e. bent or twisted out of its proper position. To strain or stretch any thing long to a 

 fnater length, as when the back sinew is strained or elongated so as to permit the pasteroa to 

 •to|ie w bend down, as in mild cases of "breaking down," would be mor« accurate. 



