298 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



CHAPTEK XXYII. 



COMMON INJURIES AND AILMENTS AND THEIR TREATMENT — . 

 HORSES THAT TROTTED AFTER BREAKING DOWN TREAT- 

 ING FILLED LEGS IODINE A FAYORITE REMEDY 



CURBS CRACKED HEELS DISTEMPER THRUSH 



QUARTER CRACK TENDER FEET THE LOCKIEPAD SHOE 



SPLINTS — SPRUNG TENDONS A GENERAL CAUTION. 



It is the practice in almost all horse-books to add 

 what I may call a Veterinary Department, and if these 

 departments that find a place in so man}^ works really 

 taught what they are supposed to teach, there would 

 no longer be any use for veterinary surgeons, for every 

 one would know how to cure every equine ailment 

 without professional aid. Kow, I have no intention of 

 following the usual example, or encroaching on the 

 sacred soil of veterinary science, but there are certain 

 ailments and injuries to which horses in training are 

 peculiarly liable, and with which every trainer must 

 himself cope, and with the treatment of a few of these 

 I propose briefly to deal. AYith all due respect to the 

 professional veterinarians, there are some troubles for 

 the cure of which I would rather trust to the treat- 

 ment of an experienced and competent trainer than 

 to that of the averag-e veterinarv suro^eon. The reason 

 is, that the trainer is almost constantly treating and 

 caring for the mishaps and ailments peculiar to train- 



