DISEASES AND INJDKIES OF THE LEGS. 



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supply him with food by means of a bag suspended from the stall-posts; 

 the slings in the graver lesions playing a most essential part. 



In some rare instances the wound in the skin and tendon is situated 

 at the inferior part of the knee, over the articulations of the lower row 

 of cai'pal bones and the metacarpals. A wound in this part, although 

 penetrating deeply and opening into the joint, is not nearly so dangerous 

 as one over the articulation between the two rows: for there is but little 

 motion, the succeeding inflammation is not nearly so great, nor the super- 

 vening anchylosis so important. 



When the accident has been sufficiently severe to fracture one or 

 more bones of the knee, the animal should be destroyed. 



CUEB. 

 (see plate II.) 



Definition. — Inflammation of the calcaneo-cuboid ligament, accom- 

 panied by a hard and painful swelling at the back of the hock. (Fig. 91.) 



FiQ. 90. 

 Seat of curb shown at A. 



Fig. 91. 

 External appearance of curb. 



Etiology. — A sprain of the calcaneo-cuboid ligament. 



Symptoms. — In the earliest stages, curb shows itself as a small hard 



