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GLOSSARY OF DISEASKS. 



Capped Hock, 



Cataract, • - - 

 CoLio, Spasmodic, 



A swelliDg of the point of the hock, behind 

 caused by an enlargement of a sac containing 

 synovial fluid, as in blood spavin. 



A disease of the eye. 



A spasmodic action of the muscular coat over 

 certain parts of the intestines, without a cor- 

 responding activity of the whole. It pro- 

 duces an irregularity in the passage of the 

 food through the intestinal canal, and causes 

 great pain. 



Couo, FLATUI.ENT, - An inflation of the bowels by gas emitted by 



the fermentation of undigested food. 

 Contraction op the 



Foot, A drawing together of the back part of the 



foot, and an accompanying reduction of the 

 size of the frog. 



CoBN, ..... A bruising of the sensible sole, and an accoin. 

 panying rupture of its blood-vessels at the 

 angles, between the wall of the foot and the 

 bar. 



CuBB, ..... An enlargement of the back part of the hock, 

 three or four inches below its point, and a 

 strain of the ligaments of the tendon, or a 

 rupture of its sheath. 



Diabetes, .... Excessive urinating. 



Distemper, .... An epidemic catarrhal fever. 



Enteritis .... Inflammation of the external coats of the 

 stomach. 



Falling in op the 

 Foot, 



Faleb Quabteb, 



A depression of the front part of the wall of the 

 foot, caused by the descent of the coffin-bone 

 m pumiced feel. 



A more or less complete separation of the hoof 

 as it grows down from the coronet. The re- 

 sult of injury to the coronet, or of neglected 

 quarter, crack, or quitter. 



