Lameness of the Horse: Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1Lacroix, John Victor
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Lameness of the Horse: Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
Lacroix, John Victor
Horses -- Health; Lameness in horses
Case 10.--At two-year-old mule with an open navicular joint due
to a barbed wire wound. Usual care was given this case and in five
months recovery was complete and little scar is to be seen. This
case received seven treatments.
Case 11.--An eighteen-months-old colt at pasture was found down
and unable to rise without help. In addition to several wounds of
lesser importance there was a large wound on the inner side of the
elbow, the joint was open and the entire leg was greatly swollen
and in a state of acute infectious inflammation. The colt could not
walk, its temperature was 105 deg., pulse was rapid and respiration was
a little hurried. After advising the owner to put the poor animal
out of its misery I left the place. Four days later the owner came
to my office and asked if he could borrow some old shears to "trim
off some loose hide from that colt." He left the colt in the
pasture and all the care it received was the regular application of
a proprietary dusting powder. It made a complete recovery.
Case 12.--A family mare, heavy in foal, received a vertical wound
of the fetlock joint inflicted by a disc-harrow. The _cul-de-sac_
of the ligament of this joint was opened freely. The wound was
dressed in the usual manner and again three days later when no
suppuration had taken place. Four days later the patient gave birth
to a colt and suckled it right along through her convalescence.
This wound healed by first intention and seventy-nine days from the
date of the injury the mare was driven to town, two and one-half
miles distant, and showed but little lameness.
Phalangeal Exostosis (Ringbone)
This term is applied to exostoses involving the first and second
phalanges (suffraginis and corona), regardless of their size, extent or
location. It is a misnomer, in a sense, and the veterinarian is
frequently obliged to spend considerable time with his clients in order
to convince them that a spherodial exostosis of the proximal phalanx, in
certain cases, is in reality "ringbone," even though there exists no
exostosis which completely encircles the affected bone.
Etiology and Occurrence.--Exostosis of the first and second phalanges
is usually due to some form of injury, whether it be a contusion, a
lacerated wound which damages the periosteum, or periostititis and
osteitis incited by concussions of locomotion, or ligamentous strain.
Practically the only exception is in the rachitic form of ringbone which
affects young animals.
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