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bone spavin which has become completely ossified 

 (that is, the bunch become solid bone), that, in such a 

 case, the enlargement will be removed. 



In any bony growths, like Spavin or ringbone, it will 

 be exceedingly difficult to determine just when there 

 is a sufficient deposit of phosphate of lime so that it is 

 completely ossified, for the reason that in some cases 



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 Spavin. 



the lime is deposited faster than in others, and there- 

 fore one case may be completely ossified in a few 

 months, while in another it will be as many years. 



The cases which are not completely ossified are those 

 that I claim to remove. One of this class which I have 

 seen lemoved was a large bone spavin of four or five 

 years standing, and I think that a large per cent of 

 cases are not fully ossified for seveial months or years. 



I am well awaie that many good horsemen say that 

 it is impossible to cure spavins, and, in fact, this has 



