CHAPTEE XXIV. 



LAMENESS RESULTING FROM DIFFERENT 



CAUSES NOT DESCRIBED IN THE 



FOREGOING PARAGRAPHS. 



In the previous discussions on tlie Clinical Diagnosis of 

 Lameness in the Horse, all the common and important 

 lesions have been considered, which are primarily concerned 

 in lameness. The scope of this work is too limited to allow 

 of full consideration of the majority of those conditions 

 which interfere with locomotion ; but even a compendium is 

 not quite complete without alluding, at least, to some of those 

 morbid conditions which secondarily produce lameness. 



1. Glanders and Faixy. — The presence of glanderous 

 processes in the neighborhood of aponeuroses, in the sub- 

 cutis and lymph glands, produces more or less lameness ; 

 but here, as in all other diseases mentioned further on, 

 other symptoms are, as a rule, sufl&ciently prominent to call 

 for a general examination. 



2. Influenza. — Dropsical swellings of the legs interfere 

 with locomotion, but the visibly lowered vitality, the pinkish 

 and oedematous conjunctiva, the circulatory and respiratory 

 disturbances, characterize this affection. 



3. Maladie du Coit. — This disease causes certain locomo- 

 tory irregularities, expressed by knuckling over behind in 

 walking. Later symptoms of incomplete spinal paralysis 



