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Cause. — Disease in tlie hock joint, and accompanies 

 occult and bone spavin, weakness in the part from the 

 effects of sprains, or other injury. 



Observe. — Knuckling of the hind pasterns, is a symp- 

 tom strongly indicative that the animal has had an 

 attack of paralysis, or is likely to have one: at all 

 events it clearly shows that either the brain or spinal 

 cord is to a certain extent diseased, resulting in loss of 

 motive power in the pasterns. 



Treatment. — Feed the horse well, and give fifteen 

 drops of the tincture of nux vomica three times in the 

 day. If the hock joint be the cause, treat the hock as 

 for spavin, or palliate the symptoms by applying two 

 parts of olive oil, and one part of creosote and oil of 

 turpentine, two to three times in the week. 



Lameness. — Lameness occurs in many ways, and from 

 many causes. Fractures, bruises, sprains, wounds or in- 

 juries. These will be found treated of under their vari- 

 ous names through the book. 



Laminitis. — A name in use by veterinary surgeons 

 when speaking of founder, and is a generic term from 

 lamina, or leaves, which form the bond of unity between 

 the sensible and insensible structures of the horse's feet, 

 and is the seat of the disease commonly called founder. 

 (See Foot Diseases.) 



Lampas. — This is a name applied to slight enlarge- 

 ment, swelling, or fulness of the bars of the mouth of 

 young horses from the changes of teething. Pinching 

 the skin of the bars with the nail of the thumb till they 

 bleed, and rubbing in a little table salt, is much better 

 than burning the mouth with a red hot iron from the ef- 



