CH vr. III.] OF LAMENESS BEHIND. 477 



beard no more of him after that, though " New 

 Harbour" underwent thorough repair since poor 

 Lawler's last kick. 



2. Strain of the Whirl-Bone {Hip- Joint.) 



A supposititious disorder, which is more fre- 

 quently found to be a tardy attack of bone-spavin, 

 that is slow in coming forward, and upon which M. 

 la Fosse has thought proper to be very facetious : 

 " a horse has the spavin, or he has it not," says 

 he ; "it is not like a jack-in-a-box, that waits to 

 make his appearance when you pull the string." 

 Either spavin or strain of the whiribone, he con- 

 cludes, must be the disorder of the hind leg, when 

 die animal draws its toe along the road, as de- 

 scribed just above as being a symptom of strain in 

 the fore leg. When the animal has received injury 

 in the region of the hip, the camphorated spirits 

 recommended in a preceding page (475), should 

 be applied ; but if the heat, swelling, and tension 

 do not abate by this treatment, blister the parts 

 with the mild blister No. 3, at page 485. This ap- 

 plication, with rest, is adequate to any ordinary case 

 of hip-joint accident. 



3. Strain of the Stifle. 



Simple " lameness" would better designate this 

 died strain. The same remedies as those pre- 

 scribed for whirl-bone strain will apply to this part ; 

 afao fomentations, physic, and if the case be inver 

 tt-rate, a rowel, &c. &c. one after another. Cam- 



