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DISEASES AND THEIK TKEATMENT. 



as " rough hocks " ; and it is always advisable to compare the one 

 hock with the other. We frequently have inflammation or spavin 

 uniting the small bones without the least 

 outward, enlargement. Fig. 648. 



Quite often, before any enlargement 

 appears, the trouble may be mistaken for 

 hip lameness. But in this difficulty there 

 is a peculiar dragging motion, and for 

 want of muscular action the hip is some- 

 times fallen in or wasted; while in spavin 

 the leg is lifted and brought forward 

 easily, traveling mostly on the toe, and 

 shows marked improvement by exercise. 

 Treatment. If there is heat during 

 the first few days, use cooling applica- 



FIG. 656. Showing situa- 

 tion of bone-spavin ; a shallow 

 groove being left in the os- 

 sific deposit for the passage of 

 the oblique tendon of the flex- 

 or metatarsi, immediately un- 

 der which the spavin is situa- 

 ted. Williams 1 Surgery. 



FIG. 657. A healthy 

 hock. 



FIG. 658. A Jack 

 spavin. 



tions, such as an ounce of sugar of lead to half a pail of ice- water, 

 about two weeks, when the inflammation may pass off. A dose 

 of physic may also be given. Or a very simple way, and accord- 

 ing to my judgment the best, is to throw a strong stream of cold 

 water against the part for twelve or fifteen minutes, repeating 

 two or three times a day as before explained. If past the first 

 stage, and the case has become chronic, the only reasonable treat- 

 ment is counter irritation and rest, or keeping up sufficient local 

 inflammation, without dissolving or blistering the skin, to arouse 



