CAPPED ELBOW. 



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TREATMENT. — Development can generally be arrested if the 

 disease is treated properly in its earliest stage. With this object 

 in view, provide against the predisposing causes, by giving the 

 animal a soft bed to lie on, and let him have full length of tying- 



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up rope, if he is in a stall. Remove the shoe, or get the horse 

 shod with short shoes, and at night covei' the heel with some soft 

 material, such as felt, so that the shoe may not hurt the ellx)w ; 

 or tie him up. Or apply a kind of pillow round his fore arm, or 

 round his pastern ; so that, when he lies down, his heel will not 



