The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management (1906) (14749289306)

Bog-spavin truss or compress for treatment of spavin in horse
Identifier: horseitstreatm05axej (find matches)
Title: The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London, Gresham Pub. Co.
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isequally beneficial, douching the joint with cold waterfor half an hour to an hour three times a day, willbe necessary. Should the latter course be adopted,cold-water bandages must be applied to the part inthe intervals and frec(uently changed. After the inflammatory action has been subdueda blister should be applied over the entire surfaceof the hock, and repeated if necessary two or threetimes at intervals of three to four weeks. In the more chronic cases, firing, and blisteringover the fired surface, w^ill rec(uire to be resorted to.Iodide of potassium, given in doses of 2 to 3 drams morning and evening, will assist in the reduction of the swelling. Wherepoverty exists a liberal ration of good food should be allowed, togetherwith iron tonics. Animals suffering from bog-spavin are benefited by a run at gras.safter the inHammation has been reduced, and in some cases the absorptionof the fluid may be hastened by the application of a suitable compress to the affected joint (fig. 364).
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Fig. 364.—Bog-spavin Trussor Compress SPRAIN OR STRAIN A sprain is an injur)- to a ligament, a tendon, a muscle, or a joint,in which there is over-extension and sometimes laceration of fibres andmaybe displacement of parts. 292 HEALTH AND DISEASE Ligaments and tendons, with one or two notable exi-eptions, are in-elastic, and tear rather than stretch when a force is applied beyond theirpower of resistance. The apparent elongation in a break down is due to the rupture of a number of fibres in more than one place, and not to actualfracture across the ligament. In the case of strain so violent as to dissolvethe connection of one part with another, the separation will usually befound close to the bone and not in the middle or seemingly weakestportion. The ligament or tendon tears away from its attachment, orcarries with it a thin layer of bone. The rarity of complete rupture of a ligament in the middle portionis due to the close weaving of its fibres into a dense rounded bundle,whereas at