SPEAIN OF THE PETLOCE:. 



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Treatment. — Slinging is almost indispensable to keep the 

 limb steady, the judicious application of splints and bandages, 

 and a high-heeled shoe should be put on so as to keep the parts 

 in situ ; and the inflammation must be regulated by the constant 

 application of cold, laxative medicine, and cooling, easily-digested 

 food, sparingly supplied, .when re-union will take place, but a 

 permanent thickening is generally left. When the animal is able 

 to use the limb, the slings and splints may be dispensed with, 

 and it may be fired or blistered to consolidate the new fibres, and 

 form a permanent bandage to the part. The horse can never 

 afterward be passed as sound, nor will he stand much hard work. 



Fig. 826. — Method of applying 

 the bandage. 



Fig. 837. — Showing the 

 leg bandaged. 



Sprain of the Fetlock. 



The ligaments of the fetlock-joint are sometimes sprained, 

 giving rise to swelling of the joint, pain, and lameness. Its 

 nature, causes, symptoms, and treatment difier so little from those 

 of other parts that it is only necessary to state that the treatment 

 is the same. 



But suppose we have a strain of the extensor tendon or of the 

 ligaments of the fetlock-joint, and the horse must be moved. In 

 that case it would be necessary to apply a woolen bandage over 

 the part carefully, drawing it tightly, and holding it in place by 



