32 HORSES. 



SPRAINED PASTERN* 



When the small ligaments and tendons passing down over 

 the front of this part are strained it is too often assumed that 

 a ringbone is forming, but compression under the finger should 

 be the test of this. The application of Elliman's may be 

 reckoned on with certainty to effect a complete cure of any sprain 

 to which these structures are liable. Frequent rubbings and a 

 few days' rest are all that is necessary. 



SPRAIN OF THE BACK. 



This is caused in a variety of ways. The hunter gets it in 

 taking off from sticky ground, and the hack from the weight of 

 his rider, rolling about or sitting back, and neglecting to ease 

 the horse by changing his own position. 



The draught horse's back is sprained in backing, or by 

 stopping a load going down hill without skid-pan or break. 



There are two distinct sets of muscles concerned in strains 

 of the loins — those which lie upon the top of the spinal wings 

 and cover the bones, and those under the column of bones and 

 against which the kidneys are embedded in fat. It will be 

 readily understood how a remedy such as Elliman's applied to 

 the surface, will affect those muscles on the top, but, as a matter 

 of experience, it is found that a sprain of the psoae or loin 

 muscles underneath is almost as quickly acted upon. We have 

 already explained on page i8, par. 3, how deep-seated structures 

 are affected by the Elliman's. A person may suffer a pain in the 

 back which is well known to arise from kidney disturbance, yet 

 the rubbing in of Elliman's is found to diminish or altogether 

 banish the pain in a short time. 



Prevention of sprains to the loins is to be looked for in the 

 better balancing of two-wheeled carts by reducing weight, and 

 the proper adjustment of the load and of the breeching. 



