"Recumbency" Quotes from Famous Books
... young horses that are not accustomed to pulling and that walk in a manner to cause side draft, injury to the nerve occurs, and partial or complete paralysis supervenes. Some writers state that it may be produced by confining an animal in recumbency, with the casting harness. The common cause of paralysis or paresis of this nerve in cases such as one observes in country practice, is bruises from the collar in colts that are put to heavy farm work or where ill fitting collars ... — Lameness of the Horse - Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 • John Victor Lacroix |