514 CUEB. 



Symptoms. — Curb, during the acute stage of the disease, 

 is always productive of lameness. The following symptoms 

 were present in a case of Curb which I treated a short time 

 ago, the like of which may be expected to be present to a greater 

 or less degree in every case of the kind. 



I. — There was a slight swelling at the back of the hock, 

 near to the head of the outer splint bone. (See letter e, 

 Mg. 32. 



II. — The swelling was warmer than the skin contiguous 

 to the swelling. 



III. — "When the animal was at rest, he stood almost con- 

 stantly with his weight upon the sound limb. 



lY. — In walking the animal, the lameness was slight ; but 

 when the horse was made to trot, the lameness became more 

 evident. The animal avoided flexing the hock ; the heel of 

 the foot was not brought to the ground, and the fetlock joint 

 occasionally shot forwards : and the patient suddenly relieved 

 the limb by partially halting. 



Teeatment. — The best remedies and modes of treatment, 

 in general, are — a high-heeled shoe, cold lotions, and Eiriug and 

 Elistering. 



High-Heeled Shoe.— Eor the proper form of shoe, and 

 how it should be made, see Mg. 26, and pages 470 to 471. 



Cold Lotions. — Arnica lotion and cold water bandages 

 should be freely applied to the hock, for at least a period of six 

 or eight days; when, if the temperature of the swelling is 

 reduced and the lameness removed, the necessity of resorting 



