34 SICKNESS AND CASUALTIES. 
cure. But in case of an attack, the sufferer should be 
immediately isolated, or the whole stable may quickly be 
affected, from its epidemic character. Change of air is an 
excellent remedy if only for a short distance, and a little 
time, with careful nursing and liberal diet, will generally 
be found efficacious. 
Most horses suffer from sore shins. There is no guarding 
against this complaint. It no doubt comes from work, but 
unfortunately comes suddenly without the slightest warning 
of its approach. It generally makes its appearance after a 
few weeks’ work, and sometimes before the young ones are 
broke: some get it at two years old, when about three parts 
fit to run; some not till after being tried; others still later get 
it from running. But the cause and effect are the same inall, 
as is the remedy. 
Dressing the shins with some vesicant should be resorted 
to, and a week's rest given and a dose of physic; after which 
the horses may be set to do steady work again, and alternately 
worked and rested till the complaint passes off altogether ; 
fortunately it seldom returns. A cure may be effected by the 
first application, or this may want repeating many times at inter- 
vals of about a fortnight: during which period only walking 
exercise should be given. The action of some is so much 
affected by this complaint that they can scarcely stride over a 
straw, whilst others go as free and well as the horses that have 
no signs of it, and its existence in such cases can only be 
known by the touch. 
A remarkable instance of this complaint occurred in Starter, 
whose shins, when a yearling, were very bad, the soreness 
never leaving him until after he ran for the Goodwood Stakes 
at three years old. He never went short during the whole of 
his work ; still the shins were very sore and flinched at the 
