98 REMEDIES FOR SPAVIN. 



not have spavined horses brought to us for treatment at so early 

 a period of disease as other cases of lameness, or at nearly so 

 early a stage of their disease as, to render their cure probable or 

 hopeful, we ought to receive them at. I shall now relate a 

 couple of cases — out of several I could produce — to shew the 

 amount and kind of relief we may hope to afford in recent in- 

 flammatory spavin by blood-letting. 



Case T. — Jan. 3, 1839, D 4, a five-year-old grey mare, never 

 known to have been lame previously, while at work in the riding- 

 school, suddenly manifested lameness in one hind leg. She was 

 immediately brought out to be shewn to me. I found her quite 

 lame in the near hind leg, exhibiting a prominent spavin upon the 

 near hock. I ordered her to have a high-heeled shoe nailed upon 

 the foot of the lame limb, to lose sixteen pints of blood from the 

 saphena vein, immediately above the hock, to take a brisk dose 

 of cathartic medicine, and to be kept standing quite quiet, tied up 

 in her stall. 



10//i. — Saw her trot out for the first time. She runs almost 

 sound. Apply a sweating blister to the exostosis. 



18/A. — Scarcely any lameness remaining. 



26//i. — Sound. She was nevertheless kept in a state of qui- 

 etude for a month longer, and then sent to work. 



In March following, she failed in the other (the off) hind leg, 

 but without any appearance of bone spavin. Notwithstanding the 

 absence of all tumour, however, regarding her case still as one of 

 spavin, I treated her off hock the same as I had before treated the 

 near, and the result proved equally satisfactory. She became 

 sound in about the same period of time. 



She afterwards continued at her duty until the 14th January of 

 the following year, on which day she was brought to me again, 

 now lame in both her hocks, and from bone spavins equally de- 

 monstrable in them both. She was, after due preparative treat- 

 ment, fired deeply in both hocks. In June of the same year she 

 was cast and sold, in consequence of going with " stiff" hocks — 

 wanting that flexion in them requisite for efficient cavalry action. 



Case IF. — F 16, a black gelding, eight years old, was admit- 

 ted on the 19th December, 1839, for '' lameness in the off hind- 



