102 ON LAMENESS IN THE SHOULDERS. 



When you perceive a clog to travel badly and go 

 tender before, he should immediately be examined as 

 to the locality of his lameness. If it is situated in the 

 knee, it may be plainly perceived by gently bending 

 in the knee-joint ; but if the grief is in the shoulder, 

 by pulling forward his leg, he will immediately show 

 you, by the pain he suffers, the seat of the misery. 



The first thing to be done is to have him well fo- 

 mented daily for some hours; take some blood from 

 him in the shoulder vein; and afterwards rub in the 

 embrocation, a receipt for which was given above. If 

 this with rest will not re-establish his soundness, you 

 must insert a seton either on the top of the shoulder, 

 or below, at the point of the shoulder; let him be 

 turned out to run loose, care being taken to shut him 

 up warm at night by himself, or the other hounds 

 will gnaw off his seton. 



Kennel lameness, which is neither more nor less 

 than "acute rheumatism," affects hounds in various 

 ways ; sometimes in the shoulders ; at other times they 

 appear to be suffering under lumbago, or a violent 

 pain in the loins or spine, which is evident when 

 pressing those parts with the hand. Blaine does not 

 mention this disease under the name of kennel lame- 

 ness; but, in his chapter on rheumatism, describes a 

 complaint very similar to it, and at the same time 

 recommends the same remedies for the one which 

 would be used for the cure of the other. 



He says, in speaking of the above mentioned dis- 

 ease, that " it seldom attacks the smaller joints, but 

 confines itself to the trunk and upper portions of the 

 extremities; neither does it wander, as the human 



