CHAPTER XLV. 



HORSE AILMENTS AND HOW TO DOCTOR THEM. 



Bone spavin — Bronchitis — Brittle hoof — Blindness — Blistering — Bots — 

 Cataract — Contraction of hoof — Colic — Capped hock — Curbs — 

 Cough — Corns — Distemper — Diarrhoea — Drying the sweat — Fever 

 — Fistula — ■ Founder — Fits — Fractures — Galls — Glanders — Slings. 



BONE SPAVIN. 



BONE spavin is a deposit of bone on the inside and at the 

 lower part of the hock, about at the union of the 

 cannon-bone with the small bones of the hock, forming a 

 hard tumor of greater or less size. It produces complete 

 stiffness of the bones between which it occurs. 



BEAVXN. 



BOG SPAVIN. 



Symptoms. Many of the earlier symptoms may entirely 



elude detection, and the affection may not be observed until it 



has gained a firm hold ; especially so is this true in reference to 



horses that have very prominent hocks and are what some 



horsemen call " double-jointed." 



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