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DISE4SES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



between the ligament and the perforatus ; and if the metacarpal 

 ligament, as is most generally the case, it can be felt between the 

 bone and the tendon. 



Treatment. — As before stated, the first condition of cure is rest. 

 The animal must be turned into a loose box, and if the injury is 

 severe, the swollen limb must be well fomented with hot water ; cold 

 may be preferable, if slight. This must kept up for more than 

 an hour, when the following cooling lotion, may be well rubbed in, 

 and a thick woolen bandage applied, well saturated with it, and kept 

 wet with cold water : — 



Fig. 857.— Showing the Back Fig. 858.— Showing Fig. 859.— Enlargement 



Tendons Considerably Thick- the Effect ol Hard of the Tendons from 



ened in Consequence of * Driving. Interfering or 



Repeated Injury or Banging. 

 Strain. 



Niter (saltpeter) 2 oz. 



Sal-ammoniac . . . : . , . .2 oz. 



Common salt , ; 4 oz. 



1 Spring water. , 1 pt. 



Or, the following : — 



Saltpeter 4 oi. 



, Sugar of lead .' .1 oz. 



Muriate of ammonia ....." '. 1 oz. 



Common salt 1 pt. 



Cold water ,.'. :. ..% gal. 



Perhaps the simplest and best home treatment would be about 

 as follows :— 



Make a bag as long as the limb — an old trouser's leg of good 

 size, sufficiently long to extend from the hoof to above the knee, 

 would be the thing. Tie a string rather loosely around the foot be- 



