File:The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management (1906) (14585635509).jpg

Identifier: horseitstreatm05axej (find matches)
Title: The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London, Gresham Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
r severalof the internal organs. It is seldomthat the patient recovers from suchan attack so as to be again useful. Chronic Ostitis.—Tliis is the form in which ostitis most frequentlypresents itself in the horse. Eing-bones, some splints, and various otherexcrescences on the bones of the limbsand other parts of the skeleton arefrequently of this nature. At first the affected bone becomesporous and spongy (fig. 319), as theresult of the inflammatory exudationpressing upon the vascular canals ofthe bone and promoting their absorp-tion and enlargement. As a result ofthis the bone tissue becomes changed from a close compact structure to a loose and spongy condition,is what is known as rarefying ostitis. As the inflammation abates, the material thrown out of the vessels intothe structure of the bone, by which the rarefaction was produced, is itselfconverted into bone. The effect of this is to change the part from a soft spongy conditionto a state of great density and hardness (fig. 320).
Text Appearing After Image:
Fig. 319.—Rarefying Chronic Ostitis This 212 HEAl.TH AND DISEASE

Note About Images