If this does not remove it all, apply the ringbone and spavin medicine, this will remove it all.
If there is a swelling of the throat it should be blistered with Pratts Liniment, or Pratts Spavin Paste--A Blister.
On its outer surface it presents a vein which is quite prominent, running from below upward, and it is to the preternatural dilatation of this blood vessel that the term blood spavin is applied.
In all stages and conditions of the disease, whether the spavin is nothing more than a simple exostosis, or whether accompanied with the complication of arthritis, there must be a total suspension of effort until the danger is over.
An excellent test for spavin lameness, which may be readily applied, consists in lifting the affected leg from the ground for one or two minutes and holding the foot high so as to flex all the joints.
A splint or small spavin will cause so little fever that it is not appreciable, while a severe spavin, an inflamed joint, or a pneumonia may give rise to a marked fever.
The bog spavin is a round, smooth, well-defined, fluctuating tumor situated in front and a little inward of the hock.
Hence, an active bone spavin or ringbone, causing lameness, is more objectionable than that in which the inflammation and lameness have both passed, and an active ophthalmia is more to be feared than even an old cataract.
The blood spavin is situated in front and to the inside of the hock and is merely a varicose or dilated condition of the saphena vein.
It occurs directly over the point where the bog spavin is found, and has thus been frequently confused with the latter.
The younger the animal the easier the spavin is to treat, because the bones hardened with age contain more mineral matter and less flexible animal matter.
If you press on a Bog Spavin and there is a Thoroughpin present, you will see it bulge on either side of the Thoroughpin--or vice versa.
To cure a bone spavin it is necessary to unite two or more bones of the hock, and a fractured bone cannot unite if moved frequently.
Spavin may often be detected when riding a horse down a steep hill from the fact that he drags the toe.
Since Spavin is due to causes which come into existence after birth, it cannot be regarded as an hereditary disease.
Bog Spavin is hereditary, and you should, therefore, select a good type of animal for breeding purposes.
Thoroughpin is also a forerunner of Bog Spavin as they generally are connected, as you are aware that the hock contains joint oil as all other joints do, retained in place by a thin, white fibrous membrane.
The same thing exists in bone spavin as in a fractured bone, only we have no ragged edges like that of a fractured bone to unite; therefore, keep the animal quiet.
Spavin and Cockspur grumbling together in a corner.
In a turf transaction, either Spavin or Cockspur would try to get the better of his father, and, to gain a point in the odds, victimise his best friends.
See--Mr. Spavin is settling his toilette previous to departure; giving a curl in the glass to his side-wisps of hair.
Yes, it's lucky for me old Spavin being laid up like this--gives me a regular little outing, do you see?
There was not a hitch in a settlement, nor a spavin in your stables, could escape him.
Sir Peter shows an incipient spavin on the off leg, and I think he 'd be well sold.
Mr Cunningham himself compares the formation of a splint or spavin in a horse as the result of special strain, to the acquisition of secondary sexual characters.
If, then, spavin is not inherited, is it not unreasonable to assert that the thickening of the bone that develops on the head of a butting animal is inherited?
Where a visible exostosis exists, the presence of spavin is easily detected, yet exostoses that extend over large areas may constitute cause for serious trouble and still be difficult of detection.
Footnote 51: Discussions on paper entitled "The Spavin Group of Lamenesses," by W.
Where no exostosis is present it becomes necessary to exclude other causes for lameness but the characteristic spavin lameness is to be relied upon to a greater extent in such cases than are other means of examination.
The "spavin test" is of value as a diagnostic measure when it is employed with other means of examination, though reaction to this test is seen in some cases in old "crampy" horses that have experienced hard service.
An animal having hereditary predisposition to spavin is not likely to recover completely whether this predisposition be due to faulty conformation or susceptibility to bone changes.
Many incipient cases of spavin yield to vesication and a protracted period of rest.
Bog spavin is often present in case of thoroughpin but the two conditions are separate and distinct excepting in that both may occur simultaneously and as the result of the same cause.
Spavin usually develops early in such subjects and examples of this kind may be frequently observed in agricultural sections of the country.
Spavin lameness has long been recognized and much has been written upon this subject.
This bunch differs from bog spavin in that it is hard, while bog spavin is soft.
It may occur on the back part of the leg above the fetlock or on the inner and fore part of the hock, corresponding in its location to windgalls and bog spavin of the horse.
Treatment of spavin in the ox, as in the horse, is likely to be tedious, and not always resulting in perfect cure.
In a case of spavin the cure is not effected by restoring the diseased parts to their natural condition, but by uniting the bones and obliterating the joints.
It took three weeks of constant doctoring, investment in Kendall's Spavin Cure, and consultation with an expensive veterinary surgeon, to get the whilom race horse into a condition to slowly walk to market.
I can treat a spavinand wind a bandage as well as the next.
Sure," he replied, taking in the horse, which besides being lame and having a glaring spavin on its off hind leg was a mere bone bag fit only for the soap factory.
One reason why they do not show spavin and ringbone so much at the horse, is because our blacksmiths do not cut their heels as low as they do a horse's, and consequently that part of the foot is not made to work so hard.
The mule may not be so liable to spavin as the horse, but he has ringbone just the same.
He presently heard his own name shouted, and beheld the upper half of the body of Mr. Spavinthrust out of the side-window of the vehicle, and beckoning Pen vehemently towards it.
Spavin and Foker giving the view-halloo from their box.
Mr. Spavin could not say when his friend would return.
Mr. Spavin to the postboy, and the horses stopped in their mad career, and the carriage pulled up some fifty yards before Pen.
All the coaches are full with the men going down," Spavin said.
The young gentlemen from Baymouth had a box, in the front of which sate Mr. Foker and his friend Mr. Spavin splendidly attired in the most full-blown evening costume.
He presently heard his own name shouted, and beheld the upper half of the body of Mr. Spavin thrust out of the side-window of the vehicle, and beckoning Pen vehemently toward it.
Spavin and Foker giving the view halloo from their box.
Mr. Spavin was one of the most fashionable horse-dealers of that day.
Oh, nonsense; Spavin would be glad to get rid of the beast, depend upon it.
Be sure you don't letSpavin think it's a gentleman who's sweet upon the horse.
I think Spavin might sell him to a jock, where he would not part with him to a gentleman.
Mr. Spavin knew he had to deal with a good customer, and he wished to show off the resources of his stable.
But Jack Spavin is not the man to sell such a beast to a customer until the wickedness is taken out of him.
The great Mr. Spavin himself emerged from his counting-house to ask the pleasure of his customers.
The spavin test may be of value in diagnosing lameness.
A bony enlargement does not always accompany the lameness, and a spavin may be present without the horse going noticeably lame.
This may prevent the examiner from mistaking rough hocks for spavin enlargements or "a pair" of spavins for rough hocks.
Bog spavin is an extensive distention of the capular ligament of the hock-joint by synovia (Fig.
The soft swelling that characterizes the bog spavin is most prominent toward the inside and front of the region.
A spavin is one of the unsoundnesses of horses that may be transmitted to the offspring.
A spavin is a chronic inflammation of the articular faces of the hock bones, ligaments and synovial membranes.
Robert Spavin Secretary to Lieutenant-General Cromwell at that time, invited himself to dine with me, and brought Anthony Pearson and several others along with him to dinner.
The same thing Spavin since has often related to me, when we were alone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spavin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
