The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-07-15
L.al11eness:
It's Symptoms and Effects.
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an event arising from such a
variety of causes, that it can
never be thought inapplicable to
enumerate the most probable
form by which such defect may
be occasioned, thereby ascertain
ing to a certainty the causes made
more intricate through non atten-
ton to details The diseases of
horses are ranged into two class
es, viz; Sickness and lameneSs.
The former consists of such dis
orders as affect the animal sys-
tenn generally or any of the or
gans concerned in the functions
of respiration, digestion. How
ever painful and dangerous to
the horse sickness may prove to
De, lamere>s can hardly be SAID,
so far as his owner is concerned
to be a le Ass irritating. AL
most half tue horses in use today
are lame. Let any person having
frequent or customary inter-
course with horses wax on our
streets for a day and note how
many lame horses he will encoun-
ter; also how little attention is
given these lame beasts or how
little the horse owners know
about their animals condition or
lameness.
Lameness is the discoveryofthe
eye OF pain or weakness from
disease in one or more legs,
showing an impeachment in the
horses sait. 1t is but a symp-
tom of pain that may be produced
either by pain, inability nalfcrm-
alton or accident; or it may arise
from disease of the cerebral or
nervous system, as in injuries OF
the spinal cord or in string halt.
Lameness is usually but not in
variably sign of pain. Disease
in foot or leg, however, more
often exists without lameness
than lameness without disease.
Loss of elasticity of movement
such as is common in old horses
or in animals that have done
much work may exist toa degree
scarcely distinguishable from
lameness. 1t might at firstsight
seem very simple thing to say
whether a horse is lame or not.
1t is not SO, however, in MANY
cases. Old or hard worked
horses go stiff TO degree which
can easily be mis- taken for lame.
ness. Young horses when first
put on the bit and from not work.
ing properly up to it go in a pc
culiar manner known as bride
lameness. If you lead the ami
NAL on the side opposite to that
on which he is bridle.lame the
unevenness will disappear,
The diseases of which lame.
ness is commonly symptom are
inflammation and liberation of the
joints, inflammation and ossifica-
ton of The periosteal and carti-
lago ligamentous tissues, lacera-
WAS anu thIo iId IlOu vi Ill u SECULAR
fibre. spraln and intlama ton of
the llgaments and tendons, dis
ease Of the structures peculiar to
the foot, accidents or faults in
shoeing, dislocations, fractures,
alterations, tumors, paralysis,
contuslons, etc. A list sufficient
to show that the causes of lame
mess, some being as simple in
Their manner as others are COM
Vplicated.
1t is pain that generally causes
lameness, pain being the natural
product OF infla nation. Disease
OF any kind attacking the horses
limbs can hardly fail but make
the horse show lameness. The
presence of lameness to be de-
termined by many may become a
matter OF doubt and uncertainty
and very often the horse that one
person calls lame another pro-
nounces sound. IA great difficult
ty that has to be contended in
the doubtful cases is to ascertain
if the horse is really lame, or has
only some popularity in his gait.