(LAMENESS IN THE HIND LEG 



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with the subject's usefulness is occasioned because of the curb, 

 but the animals often remain blemished — complete resorption 

 of inflammatory products being- unusual wlien much disturbance 

 has existed. 



Treatment. — The handling of curl) during the acute inflani- 

 niMtdry stage is along the same lines as in sprain — local applica- 



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Fig. 55 — Spavin. 



tiotis of cold and heat. Subjects must be kept quiet until all 

 inflamnuition has subsided, for there are no cases wherein a 

 little brisk exercise is more likely to cause a recurrence of lame- 

 ness before recovery is complete than in curb. Vesication is in 

 order in a week or ten days after the affection has set in ; in old 

 stubborn cases that have resisted ordinary treatment for a few 

 months, the use of the actual cautery (line firing) is to be recom- 

 mended. 



Spavin. (Bone Spavin.) 

 This term is applied to an affection of the tarsus which is usu- 

 ally characterized by the existence of an exostosis on the mesial 



