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DISEASES AND THEIE TKEATMENT. 





Fig. 823. 



2 ounces, nitre (saltpetre), 

 2 ounces sal-ammoniac, 

 4 oimces common salt, 

 1 pint spring water. 



Or, the following: — 



4 ounces saltpetre, 



1 ounce sugar of lead, 



1 ounce muriate of ammonia, 



1 pint common salt, 



2 gallons cold water. 



Perhaps the simplest and 

 best home treatment would be 

 about as follows: — 



Make a bag as long as the 

 limb — an old ti'owsers leg" of 

 good siije, sufficiently long to 

 extend from the hoof to above 

 the knee would be the thing. 

 Tie a string rather loosely 

 around the foot below the fet- 

 lock. To keep it in place, 

 secure a wide tape or strip 



A, The outside uerve, or that part 

 of it where the branch H communi- 

 cates. B, The suspensory ligament. 

 C, The great ligament of the back 

 sinew. D, The two back sinews, or 

 rtexor tendons. E, E, The extensor 

 tendon. F, The cannon or shank bone, 

 (i, The splint bone. H, The back 

 sinews and their great suspensory lig- 

 ament, apparently joined together. 

 Tliis, however, is not the case; it in- 

 curporates only Avith the perforans 

 tendon, marked figure 2, and so inti- 

 mately that they form one and the 

 same substance, at the part marked 

 by the letter i. The perforatus, 

 marked liguro 3, forms a slieath for 

 the i)i'rforans, a.s already described in 

 the article on Strains. 5, The fetlock- 

 joint. 



