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Treatment. 



No i^erfect cure. Eub in any embrocation and give steady 



exercise. 

 Note. — Never give beer or stout to a rheumatic horse. 



No perfect cure. Warm fomentations till heat has gone, if there 

 be any. Then treat as for windgalls. 



Same treatment as for bog spavin. Constant hand-rubbing and 

 a very mild blister of biniodide of mercury, or a constant 

 application of ossiline or of tincture of iodine if persevered with 

 from the first symptoms, will often effect a cure. 



Leave them alone unless very tender, in that case treat as for 

 bog spavin. 



Put on high-heel shoe; if any heat, warm fomentations till it is 

 gone, then blister, and two complete months' rest required. 

 If it is old horse may work fairly without treatment. See 

 Ossiline. 



Treat as for strain of back sinews. 



Hot fomentations and poultices till heat has gone. Then cold 

 bandages and jets of cold water, or stand in running water 

 three times a day. If still lame, blister, and two months' rest 

 requisite. 



No real cure, but a Veterinary Surgeon can cut the nerve (called 

 neurotomy) to stop the pain and enable horse to go pretty 

 well in harness. 



To relieve pain, take off shoe and poultice foot, or let it stand 

 in a puddle of wet clay. 



