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of flannels wrung out of water aS hot as the hand can bear, and 

 thereafter appljnng a medicated {Arnica 0) compress; the lotion, 

 as usual, should be made of one part of tincture to six of water; 

 this compress should be constantly applied for some few days; in 

 addition two or three quarts of the lotion should be injected into 

 the rectum by means of an enema pump tbree times a day, and 

 the usual dose of Aniica 3X administered per oram thrice daily. 

 The diet should be of a slightly relaxing character, wdth plenty 

 of slops, so as to render the faeces as soft as possible. 



Another set of muscles involving lameness in the hind limbs 

 that to an amateur horseman may prove obscure and somewhat 

 perplexing is that portion of the quarters known as the aurat 

 muscles; they extend in a mass from somewhere about the hip 

 joint to the patella or stifle; their function is to raise the thigh 

 and bring it forward; when these muscles are injured the horse 

 can neither straighten the stifle nor bend the hock, and when an 

 effort is made to walk the leg is dragged along on the toe, the 

 limb as a whole being, as it were, left behind; these are among 

 the cases where there is a risk of some one or more of the muscles 

 becoming wasted; when such is the case nothing short of a blister, 

 repeated two or three times over a period of six or eight wrecks, will 

 serve to restore the wasted muscle to its normal state of health 

 and usefulness. If the seat of lameness is discovered before wast- 

 ino- of the muscular tissue commences, hot fomentations and liberal 

 hand friction with arnica lotion will generally serve to restore the 

 animal to soundness, absolute rest being indispensable meanwhile. 



One form of shoui.der lameness that frequently occurs 

 among horses that are worked on the land during the ploughing 

 operations is due to the sprain of certain muscles that serve to 

 cover the shoulder blades, the points of the shoulders and the 

 arms; also a long muscle which is attached superiorly each side of 

 the head, passing down the lower part of the neck and helping to 

 form the groove which exists down the course of the neck whence 

 it passes over the point of each shoulder and is attached inferiorly 

 to the inside of the fore arm, and that large mass of muscle which 

 serves to cover the main bone of the arm as it lies in position, ex- 

 tending from the point of the shoulder forwards to the elbow 

 backwards, together with the corresponding internal muscles 

 known as the pectoral or muscles of the chest. Several of these 



