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my hand pressed to it, the animal was at once well. The horse was 

 what I call a ' cow-hocked ' animal ; hocks in and feet out. With long 

 rest he got well." 



Dislocation of the Fetlock happens^ perhaps, more frequently than 

 others, being producible by any cause to which violent sprains are owing. 

 The displacement may happen in any direction, and it is to be reduced 

 according to the rules laid down for dislocations in general, and then 

 bound up with splints, dossils of tow, and bandages. There is, however, 

 little hope of restoring the case. 



BURNS. 



Should an animal be burnt, there is more to be dreaded 

 from constitutional suffering, than on account of the parts 

 hurt. The local injury is of secondary importance. I shall 

 illustrate this subject with the following case, related by Mr. 

 Feron : 



"In 1799, I was at Stratford-on-Avon, visiting the different quarters of 

 the 13th Dragoons, About one o'clock in the morning, a private stable 

 in which Captain Kent, of the regiment, kept two horses, took fire, I was 

 called in a great hurry to render assistance. When I arrived, I found the 

 animals had been dragged into a field. They were apparently suffocated. 

 They had in reality life ; but that was all. I immediately set a farrier to 

 bleed them from both jugular veins at once. I was not able to ascertain 

 the quantity of blood drawn, for it flowed upon the ground; during which 

 time, I was employed rubbing their legs and belly with spirits of tur- 

 pentine. In a few minutes they began to recover. Afterwards they 

 took doses of physic. One recovered in six weeks : the other was left 

 affected with a hard cough which lasted six months." 



RABIES. 



Rabies is rare in horses ; for which, two reasons appear 

 evident. The first is, the horse cannot generate the disease; 

 the second, that a dog or cat is probably less disposed to 

 bite a horse ^ than almost any animal. Now and then, a 

 case of this malady presents itself; and it is of importance 

 we should be prepared to recognize it in its mildest cha- 

 racter, that we may take measures to prevent any disastrous 

 consequences to the attendants, as well as to other horses. 



