Title: An address on the natural history and pathological osteology of the horse : delivered before the annual meeting of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture at Middletown, January, 1870
Identifier: addressonnatural00cres (find matches)
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Cressy, Noah
Subjects: Horses; Horses -- Diseases
Publisher: Hartford : Case, Lockwood & Brainard
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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12 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. count for many cases of "heaves," "short-breath," &c. ? Such a case would not be amenable to any treatment, unless taken in hand early and with a clear conception of the ap- proaching malady. Ringhone derives its name from the peculiar form which this morbid growth of bone assumes when it attacks the pas- tern joint; a well marked example of which will be seen in iMffure 3.
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Ringbone. the plate at Figure 3. The incidental causes of ringbone are very numerous. Almost any injury received upon the pastern bone may give rise to a more or less aggravated form of this disease, if not promptly attended to, with perfect rest secured for the animal. Such cases should be freely treated with Figure 3.—Ringbone; a, upi?er pastern; h, lower pastern; c,coffin bone.

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