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Updated: May 29, 2025
The treatment recommended is surgical. This consists in cutting the tendon of the peroneus muscle. The seat of the operation is a little below the hock and on the external face of the cannon. SPAVIN. A spavin is a chronic inflammation of the articular faces of the hock bones, ligaments and synovial membranes. The predisposing causes are of the greatest importance.
In the morning, I hope to find a very encouraging change." "But, Doctor," she replied, "if this is a case of typhoid fever, no hope of any quick change for the better can be entertained. I am no stranger to the fearful malady." "Attacks of all diseases," I answered to this, "are more or less severe, according to the nature of the predisposing and exciting causes.
Sleeping Sickness is not known, which immunity is attributed by the priests to the fact that the natives have plenty of fresh meat and eat little kwanga. Apparently the disease is due to a bacillus. It is however, at least possible that the new diet of the civilised native may be a predisposing factor.
In this examination, type, conformation and temperament are taken into account at once, for each of these qualities is in itself, a determining factor in predisposing a subject to certain ailments or inherent attributes, which may exert a favorable or unfavorable influence upon existing conditions and thus make recovery probable or otherwise.
For a concise discussion of this subject the most practical classification is one made on a chronological basis and we may then consider tendinitis as acute and chronic. Etiology and Occurrence. Causes of tendinitis, as in almost all diseases, may be considered under the heads of predisposing and exciting. Among the predisposing causes of tendinitis may be mentioned, faulty conformation.
The other class of diseases, as dropsy of the brain or effusion, probably includes a number of maladies, due some of them to scrofula, and to the predisposing causes of that disease; others, to the kind of influences which seem to favor convulsive disorders.
Percivall defines curb as "a prominence upon the back of the hind leg, a little below the hock, of a curvilinear shape, running in a direct line downwards and consisting of infusion into, or thickening of, the sheath of the flexor tendons." Occurrence. Certain predisposing factors seem to favor the occurrence of curb.
Speaking of the causes leading to drunkenness, he says: "Occupation has a powerful controlling influence in developing or warding off the disease. In-door life in all kinds of business, is a predisposing cause, from the fact that nearly the whole force of the stimulant is concentrated and expended upon the brain and nervous system.
Degenerative changes which take place in tendons following constitutional diseases such as influenza may also be classed as a predisposing cause.
Laxness of the muscles and ligaments in young animals is a predisposing factor. Hard work that tires the muscles and causes them to become relaxed, strains, unusual movements, as kicking in the stable and slipping, may cause this accident. Congenital displacement results from imperfect development of the external lip of the trochlea. Such a deformity subjects the animal to frequent luxations.
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