PATHOLOGY. 6l 



Splints and Curls. 



SPLINTS are depositions of bone found on the 

 middle of the cannon or shank bone of the fore- 

 legs, but may likewise take place on the same 

 part of the hind-legs. 



Curbs are the same depositions taking place on 

 the back part of the hock. The causes of these 

 are the same as of bone spavin ; and the treatment 

 there directed, can only, in these cases, be of ser- 

 vice ; but when splint9 become very large, and 

 cause great lamenefs, an expert operator may 

 cut through the integuments, and remove them 

 with a chifsel, taking care not to injure the sus- 

 pensor ligament, or tendon. 



Recent Colds, or Catarrh. 



THERE is not any disease to which the horse 

 is more liable than that which comes under the 

 above denomination. This disease is principally 

 owing to sudden changes of temperature ; and 

 experience shows, that a sudden change from cold 

 to heat is more frequently the cause, than from 

 heat to cold. 



IT will ever be found, that when a horse has 



