CHAPTER XL 



Diseases Common to the Muscles 

 and Extremities 



HOW TO LOCATE LAMENESS IN A HORSE 



Lameness is a disease or an injured condition of a joint, hone, 

 ligament, tendon, hoof, or muscle of an animal and can be located usu- 

 ally by heat, swelling, inflammation, enlargements and lack of action 

 in any part of the body or limbs. The signs of location are as follows : 



Hoof lameness improves with exercise. In cases of splint lame- 

 ness a horse walks as though sound, but trots lame. In shoulder lame- 

 ness a horse stumbles coiisiderably. 



Joint lameness is usually indicated by heat and swelling. Tendon 

 lameness is the same. In ligament lameness there is no swelling and 

 no heat and there will be no recovery unless the trouble is located and 

 treated. In ringbone and curb lameness there is always an enlargement 

 present. Bone spavin lameness sometimes appears without enlarge- 

 ment. The animal starts off on the points of his toes and warms out 

 of it as he is exercised. Bog spavin or thoroughpin always shows an 

 enlargement. 



TREATMENT 



Ascertain which of these descriptions fits your case, then see the 

 index under its respective title for a proper remedy. 



FOOT AND LIMB TROUBLES 



Diseases of the feet and limbs are usually brought to the stock- 

 man's notice by the presence of lameness in the animal affected; there- 

 fore, we are justified in considering LAMENEvSS a symptom of dis- 

 ease in the parts mentioned, it being an expression of pain in one or 

 more limbs during movement. While the lameness may be plain, the 

 location of that lameness is far from plain, and in many cases will per- 



