Heaves. — See "Broken Wind."
Hide-bound. — The skin appears too tight, and as if fast to the ribs. It is caused by a disordered stomach, and requires nourishing food.
Inflammation of Bowels. — The pain is continuous, and the horse is careful not actually to strike his belly with his feet. Requires, of course, very different treatment from colic, but an injection should be the first thing done.
Interfering. — Striking the fetlock-joint with the foot. Caused sometimes by weakness and fatigue, but usually by bad shoeing, and a good blacksmith is the best adviser.
Lampas. — A swelling of the gums, relieved by lancing.
Knee-sprung. — Incurable. Result of overwork.
Knuckled. — Same as "set over." A condition of the fetlockjoint corresponding to that of the "sprung" knee.
Laminitis. — The scientific name of "founder."
Mad Staggers. — Violent insanity, caused by inflammation of the brain. The last stage sometimes of sleepy staggers. Incurable.
Mallenders. — A scurvy patch at the back of the knee, caused by neglect, and not obstinate.
Mange. — An itch produced by a parasitic insect.
Megrims. — A falling-sickness like epilepsy. It begins with a laying back of the ears and shaking of the head; is accompanied by convulsions; and passes off of itself in two or three minutes, the horse appearing to be none the worse. Often called "Blind Staggers."
Navicular Disease. — An ulceration of the navicular-joint in the foot, causing lameness; incurable, except by extirpation of the nerve.
Nerved. — A nerved horse has had one of the nerves of the foot cut to remove the pain and lameness caused by the "navicular disease."
Ophthalmia. — A purulent inflammation of the eye. Epidemic.
Organic Disease of the bony system anywhere constitutes unsoundness.
Overreaching. — Striking the toe of the front-foot with the toe of the hind-foot; sometimes called "clicking." Often remedied by shoeing.
