170 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



of the rope through a ring or over a beam at or about thb 

 horse's head, place the end of the rope in the hands of one 

 or two strong men — telling them not to pull till a man is 

 placed at the head of the horse to keep him steady — have 

 another man at the leg with one hand placed firmly on the 

 point of the hock-joint pulling towards himself, and the 

 other pushing firmly against the dislocated joint, then let 

 the men on the rope pull firmly and gently, till the foot is 

 brought fairly in under the horse's body ; after which the 

 rope should be removed, and the horse kept quiet for a 

 day or two. 



Pasterns. — (See Sprains.) 



Pelvis. — The anatomical name for the lower part of 

 the abdomen or belly. 



Pelvic Abscess. — This condition is sometimes seen 

 in weakly constitutioned mares witliin a few days after 

 foaling. 



Symptom. In from one to four days one of the thighs of 

 the hind legs will be swollen, hot and painful, causing the 

 mare to shiver or appear chilly, not from cold, but from 

 the suppurative inflammatory action going on. The milk 

 will have almost entirely ceased, and the colt will have to 

 be fed by the bottle as a child, or out of a bucket like a 

 calf, till the mare is cured and the milk returns. One 

 curious condition about pelvic abscess is, that although it 

 suppurates, the abscess does not break usually on the thigh, 

 as it would be expected to do, but within an inch or two 

 from the haunch bone. 



Treatment. The pus Avhich has accumulated from so 

 large an abscess, does not discharge itself from the place of 

 opening, but burrows away down among the muscles of the 

 hip and thigh, down to within a few inches of the hock 



