DISEASES AND THEIE TREATMENT. 

 RING-BONE. 



The treatment for ring-bone, splints, curbs, and spavins is 

 practically the same. If there is inflammation, the result of recent 



FIG. 670. Joint anchylosed in ring- 

 bone, without enlargement. The 



roughened appearance of the FIG. 671. Ring-bone. The joint anchy- 



bone the result of inflamma- losed and enlarged, 



tion of the periosteum. 



strain, use cooling applications, and give the horse rest until it 

 passes off, when counter irritation by blister- 

 ing or firing must be resorted to. 



A ring-bone is a bony excrescence, or en- 

 largement, about the pastern, most frequently 

 occurring in the hind leg. Sometimes it does 

 not cause much lameness, while again the 

 lameness may be very severe, and perhaps in- 

 curable. This will depend much upon the lo- 

 cation of the enlargement upon the joint. 

 Should it be upon the center of the bone, it 

 may not occasion any trouble ; but if upon 

 the margin of the joint, it is liable to cause 

 much lameness. Fig. 671, taken from a pho- 

 tograph, is a front view of an enlarged an- 



FIG. 672. Longitudinal , , , . . . , --,. 



eection of joint after chylofied joint, or ring-bone ; Fig. 672 is a 

 anchylosis. view of another specimen cut through the 



