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recommended for a galled ])ack, and when the 

 inflammation has subsided, the blister should be 

 rubbed on that was recommended after a break- 

 down. When the effects of this have passed off 

 Compound Tincture of Iodine, or a lotion made 

 from Rhus Toxicodendron, should be applied 

 until all signs of the curb have disappeared. 

 Otherwise a permanent swelling will remain, 

 causing disfigurement for life. 



An old-fashioned and effective sweating blister 

 for curbs was to apply a cabbage-leaf to the place, 

 immediately the horse was brought back to the 

 stable. 



Thorough-pin is the name given to a bursal 

 enlargement at the side of the hock, but beyond 

 the disfigurement it does not interfere with work. 

 The Rhus Toxicodendron lotion has a good effect 

 in reducing this and other bursal enlargements. 

 It should be painted on for three or four days, 

 when the scarf skin will rise as when iodine 

 is used ; and a similar rest must be given, and 

 then the application renewed again, and again, 

 till the swelling is reduced. If a horse is turned 

 out to grass for a few weeks it will usually 

 be found that thorough-pins, capped hocks, 

 elbows, &c., will disappear when the animal 

 comes into the stable again, and is fed on dry 

 food. After being relaxed at grass, there seems 

 to be a general bracing up of the system on 

 returning again to the stable. If a horse is given 

 to capping his hocks when lying down, or 

 capping his elbows, he should wear a hock cap 

 for the first ailment ; and for the second have a 

 padded roll of leather buckled round his fetlock, 

 which will prevent his lying on his shoe, the 

 usual cause of a capped elbow. 



