SECTION IV. 



INJURIES. 



WOUNDS. 



INCISED. 

 LACERATED. 

 CONTUSED. 

 PUNCTURED. 



FISTULOUS PAROTID DUCT. 

 POLL-EVIL. 



FISTULA IN THE WITHERS. 

 SADDLE AND NAVEL GALLS. 

 WARBLES AND SITFASTS. 

 INFLAMED VEIN. 

 BROKEN KNEES. 

 OPENED JOINT. 



INJURIES OF THE EYE. 



INJURIES OF THE MOUTH, 

 TONGUE, AND JAWS. 



WOUNDED TENDONS. . 



PRICKED FOOT. 



TREADS AND OVER-REACHES. 



QUITTOR. 



FRACTURES. 



DISLOCATIONS. 



BURNS AND SCALDS. 



RABIES. 



When we regard the horse in the various capacities he is 

 made to serve, or consider the constraints he is forced to 

 undergo, and to these add the abuses to which he is 

 subjected, we need express no surprise should he often be 

 liable to " injury.^^ He becomes more and more the 

 creature of accident from being placed in the hands of those 

 who are either reckless of his life, or else unskilled in his 

 management. 



In the army, it too frequently happens that the veterinary surgeon's 

 " Sick Report " is augmented to double the length it otherwise would be, 

 from cases of " injury." And two fruitful sources of these — surpassing in 

 mischief all the others put together — are the bails of the stables, and the 

 chains by which cavalry horses are tied up. Were all cavalry stables stalled, 

 instead of being bailed, and every horse in a regiment were even to wear out 

 or destroy two ropes a year, there would be a very great saving of horses' 

 limbs and lives, and not only that, but at the same time a very material . 

 reduction of expenditure on account of remounts. There is another 



