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water, will usually prove successful if the treatment be per- 

 severingly adopted. 



CAPULET AND CAPPED HOCK. 



There are generally serous abscesses, produced by blows, 

 bruises, strains, or injuries from any cause. Capulet is an en- 

 largement at the point of the elbow, and is generally caused by 

 lying on the heels of the shoe, which bruise the part. Capped 

 bock is found at the point of the hock joint, and is usually 

 caused by kicking against the sides of the stall. 



By W' ay of treatment, first open the part ; if it contains fluid, 

 which will be known by the soft elastic feeling, throw in with 

 a syringe an injection of the tincture of iodine diluted with 

 alcohol ; a solution of the sulphate of zinc may in incipient cases 

 answer the purpose. If fluid is not formed, blisters will often 

 succeed. In cases of capulet, have the heels of the shoes 

 shortened, or bind the feet at night to prevent injury. 



CAKIES OF THE BOK'ES. 



This is, perhaps, the most common of all the diseases to 

 which the horse is subject, and its frequency can only be ac- 

 counted for, by the abuses to which he is sul)jected. It gene- 

 rally arises from a low, inflammatory condition of the joints, 

 these parts being principally affected ; an ulceration of the heads 

 of the bones is established, generally in young horses, which is 

 called, from the destruction which it occasions, caries, or decay. 

 It will usually be found preceding spavin, ring-bone, stiff back, 

 and other anchylosed conditions of the bones, and can best be 

 illustrated under the heads of Spavin and Ring-bone. 



