asmodic jerk, and the animal
may walk or trot away without suspicion of lameness. Though this may end
the trouble for the time, and the restoration seem to be perfect and
permanent, a repetition of the entire transaction may subsequently take
place, and perhaps from the loss of some proportion of tensile power
which would naturally follow the original attack in the muscles involved
the lesion might become a habitual weakness.

Warm fomentations and douches with cold water will often promote
permanent recovery, and liberty in a box stall or in the field will in
many cases insure constant relief. The use of a high-heeled shoe is
recommended by European veterinarians. The use of stimulating liniments,
with frictions, charges, or even severe blisters, may be resorted to in
order to prevent the repetition of the difficulty by strengthening and
toning up the parts.

DISEASES OF MUSCLES AND TENDONS.

SPRAINS.

This term expresses a more or less complete laceration or yielding of
the fibers of the muscles, tendons, or the sheaths surrounding and
supporting them. The usual cause of a sprain is external violence, such
as a fall or a powerful exertion of strength, with following symptoms of
soreness, heat, swelling, and a suspension of function. Their
termination varies from simple resolution to suppuration, and commonly
fibrinous exudation difficult to remove. None of the muscles or tendons
of the body are exempt from liability to this lesion, though naturally
from their uses and the exposure of their situation the extremities are
more liable than other regions to become their seat. The nature of the
prognosis will be determined by a consideration of the seat of the
injury and the complications likely to arise.

_Treatment._--The treatment will resolve itself into the routine of
local applications, including warm fomentations, stimulating liniments,
counterirritation by blistering, and in some cases even firing. Rest, in
the stable or in a box stall, will be of advantage by promoting the
absorption of whatever fibrinous exudation may have formed, or
absorption may be stimulated by the careful persevering application of
iodin in the form of ointments of various degrees of strength.

There are many conditions in which not only the muscular and tendinous
structures proper are affected by a strain, but, by contiguity of parts,
the periosteum of neighboring bones may become involved, with a
complication of periostitis and its