self-nurse

Updated: May 24, 2025

There is to be considered, however, the fact that the young animal is more agile, a better self-nurse, and in a general way more apt to recover than is the adult, under similar conditions. Rheumatic arthritis, if one is justified in classifying rheumatic inflammation of joints as a metastatic form of arthritis, is not a common condition, though seen in mature and aged animals.

John Victor Lacroix - Lameness of the Horse: Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1