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OSTITIS. 



respectable veterinary author recognizes any sucli disease. 

 The symptoms which accompany its supposed existence are 

 but sympathetic effects, or atrophy of the muscles of the 

 shoulder. The attention of the horse-owner is directed to a 

 wasting away or lessening of these muscles, which from want 

 of action naturally become smaller or contracted ; upon the 



animal's regaining the natu 

 cles are again developed, as 

 arm by the constant 

 mer. Cases called 

 the result of injury 

 as the knee, 

 When the 



THE EQUESTRIENNE 



the foot! 



ground, itj 



ed upon 



is not i n 



however, the leg drags with the toe on the ground, the injury 



may be looked for in that locality. It is, however, more easy 



to decide a case of shoulder lameness than any other to which 



the limb is liable. 



ral use of the limb, the mus- 

 the muscles of the smith's 

 use of the sledge ham- 

 sweenie are invariably 

 in some remote parts, 

 the foot, etc. — 

 animal picks up 

 ^clear from the 

 ^^^may be depend- 

 that the injury 

 the shoulder ; if 



OSTITIS. 



This is an inflammation of the bone, occasioning lameness 

 of an obscure nature, and is one of the most difficult of air 

 cases of lameness to detect. Where it occurs iu the cannon 

 bone, it is often mistaken for a thickening of the integuments. 



Treatment — Cold bandages, lead water, rest, with daily 

 half-drachm doses of iodide of potassa dissolved in a pail of 



