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to a carriage, when slow motion only is required ; but he will 

 never do for rapid movement. Moderate exercise will not 

 materially aggravate the disease. It will cause but little if 

 any enlargement of the spavin-sack, and will not perma- 

 nently increase the lameness. 



TRBATMENT. 



Sometimes a local application of the corrosive liniment 

 will prove beneficial in checking the accumulation of the oily 

 fluid, and thus prevent the swelling from increasing. The 

 spavin-sack, if very small, or in the first stages of the disease, 

 may occasionalTy be dried up entirely, by the same means. 

 The remedy is worth a trial. IN'ot much confidence, however, 

 can be placed in any course of treatment. The difiSculty 

 arises from the fact that the oil-sacks lie so deep, and are sur- 

 rounded so closely by tendons, that no external application 

 seems to reach them directly. As the disease does not en- 

 tirely impair the animal's usefulness, and does not affect his 

 general health, it will rest entirely with the intelligent owner 

 whether to attempt a cure or not, with the probability of a 

 failure. 



The old and absurd practice of tapping the spavin-sack, 

 which is thus transformed into a constantly-running and in- 

 curable sore, must be discountenance^l by every well-informed 

 person. We trust none of our readers will resort to it in 

 any case. Better do nothing than be guilty of such folly. If 

 ^ the corrosive liniment does not effect a cure, no other remedy 

 need be applied. 



WIND-GALLS. 



The little oil- sacks already described are most abundant 

 about the hock, the ankle, and the knee, but are by no means 

 confined to these localities; next to which they are most nu- 

 merous on the legs, below the knee and hock, and also upon 

 the ankles. When those which are situated on the parts last 

 named become ruptured, the swelling which results from the 

 effusion of their contents under the skin, is called a wind-galL 



