HOUSE DOCTOR. 



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bones. The motion of these parts likewise is impeded 

 or lost, and the whole of the foot becomes one mass of 

 spongy bone. 



SWELLED LEGS. 



Sometimes from an apparent shiftinof of disease from 

 other parts, the hind legs suddenly swell to an enor- 

 mous deg^ree from the hock and almost from the stifle to 

 the fetlock, attended by a greater or less degree of heat, 

 and tenderness of the skin, and sometimes excessive and 

 very peculiar lameness. 



Occasionally the horse is apparently well at night, 

 but, on the following morning, one or both of the legs 

 are tremendously swollen. 



Many horses, in seemingly perfect heakh, if suffered 

 to remain several days without exercise, will have 

 swelled legs. * 



Remedi/.—Vhys\c or diuretics, or both, must be had 

 recourse to. Mild cases will generally yield to their in- 

 duence. 



THE VICES AND DISAGREEABLE OR DANGEROUS 

 HABITS OP THE HORSE. 



The horse has many excellent qualities, but he has 

 likewise defects, and those occasionally amounting to 

 vices. 



RESTIVENESS. 



At the head of all the vices of the horse is restiveness, 

 the most annoying and the most dangerous of alL 

 Whether it appears in the form of kicking, or rearing, or 

 plunging, or bolting, or in any way that threatens dan- 

 ger to the rider or the horse, it rarely admits of cure. 



