Chapter II: Section I: Diseases of the Organs of Locomotion

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METHODS OF EXAMINATION 1

I. DISEASES OF BONES 3
GENERAL DISEASES 4
Rachitis 4
Osseous Cachexia 7

LOCAL AFFECTIONS 20
Fractures 20
Fractures of the horns 21
Detachment of the horns 23
Fissuring of the horns 24
Fractures of the horns 25

EXOSTOSES 27
Spavin in the ox 27
Ring-bone 28
Suppurating ostitis 29
Bone tumours 30

II. DISEASES OF THE FOOT 31
Congestion of the Claws 31
Contusions of the sole 31
Laminitis 32
Sand crack 34
Pricks and stabs in shoeing 36
Picked-up nails, etc. (“Gathered nail”) 37
Inflammation of the interdigital space (Condylomata) 38
Canker 40
Grease 41
Panaritium—Felon—Whitlow 41
Foot rot 43

III. DISEASES OF THE SYNOVIAL MEMBRANES AND OF THE ARTICULATIONS 45
I. SYNOVIAL MEMBRANES AND ARTICULATIONS 45
Synovitis 45
Inflammation of the patellar synovial capsule 45
Distension of the synovial capsule of the hock joint 46
Distension of tendon sheaths in the hock region 46
Distension of the synovial capsule of the knee joint 47
Distension of the synovial capsule of the fetlock
joint 48
Distension of tendon sheaths 48
Distension of tendon sheaths in the region of the knee 49
Distension of the bursal sheath of the flexor tendons 49
Traumatic synovitis—“Open synovitis” 49
Traumatic tendinous synovitis 50
Traumatic articular synovitis—Traumatic
arthritis—“Open arthritis” 51

II. STRAINS OF JOINTS 52
Strain of the shoulder 52
Strain of the knee 53
Strain of the fetlock 54
Strain of the stifle joint 54
Strain of the hock joint 55

III. LUXATION OF JOINTS 56
Luxation of the femur 56
Luxation of the patella 58
Luxation of the femoro-tibial articulation 61
Luxation of the scapulo-humeral joint 63

IV. HYGROMAS 64
Hygroma of the knee 65
Hygroma of the haunch 67
Hygroma of the trochanter of the femur 67
Hygroma of the stifle 67
Hygroma of the point of the hock 68
Hygroma of the point of the sternum 69

IV. DISEASES OF MUSCLES AND TENDONS 70
Rupture of the external ischio-tibial muscle (Biceps
femoris) 70
Rupture of the flexor metatarsi 72

PARASITIC DISEASES OF MUSCLES 73
Cysticercus disease of the pig 73
Beef measles 79
Trichiniasis—Trichinosis 84

V. RHEUMATISM 89
Articular rheumatism 89
Muscular rheumatism 92

INFECTIOUS FORMS OF RHEUMATISM OR PSEUDO-RHEUMATISM 94
Infectious rheumatism in young animals 94
Infectious pseudo-rheumatism in adults 99
Scurvy—Scorbutus 104