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THOROUGHPIN. 



THOROUGHPIN. — An affection accompanying blood spavin, and 

 generally caused by excessive labor. 



Symptoms. — A round tumor going through the leg and appearing on the- 

 outside and in front of the joint of the hock. Thoroughpin is the same 

 disease as blood spavin, on a more extensive scale, causing the enlargement 

 to extend through the joint from one side to the other. 



Treatment. —S'umQ as for blood spavin, which see. 



TUMORS are swellings or enlargements of any part of the body. They 

 vary according to their situation and nature. 



Treatment. — The treatment varies with different horsemen. And we- 

 would say that in some cases it might be best to have them cut out, and 

 yet there are many other cases which can be removed by the use of Kendall's^ 

 Spavm Cure, applied as directed for spavin. We now have in mind a case- 

 of a bony tumor which had been sawed off by a surgeon, but, from some 

 cause, continued to grow ; after it had again reached quite a large size the 

 owner of the horse began to use Kendall's Spavin Cure, and, after he had 

 used one or two bottles, told us that the tumor was nearly removed, and 

 on examination we found it quite difficult to detect it. 



WATER FARCY is the result of weakness in the old, and of inflam- 

 matory action in the young. By long continued labor, from twelve to- 

 eighteen hours each day, the horse, already debilitated, is by abuse made a 

 fit subject for water farcy. 



It is the custom of some to 

 feed largely on Saturday night 

 and not to visit again until Mon- 

 day morning, wiien they are 

 liable to find the animal, so 

 cruelly treated, with one sw^ollen 

 leg. The horse holds the leg up 

 as seen in the engraving, and 

 will generally be lame. He is 

 in too much pain, and is too 

 tired, to eat, but will be very 

 thirsty on account of the agonies 

 which his cruel treatment has brought upon him. When water farcy 

 occurs, let it be understood that it is because the horse has been worked too- 

 long and too hardly, and that if the animal is not better cared for. Farcy 

 will be the result. 



Treatmenf.—hei the w^ork be lighter, the nourishment sufficient and 

 of better quality, and the stable kept clean and well ventilated. Lead the 

 horse out, two or three times a day, for gentle exercise. As soon as the 



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