ON LAMENESS, 103 



RECAPITULATION 



In concluding this chapter it will be proper 

 to state, that a peculiar conformation of the 

 limbs renders a horse more subject to lameness 

 of one kind than another. Thus horses with 

 short pasterns, and whose fore legs incline 

 much under the body, are most liable to bony 

 excrescences, such as splents, ring bones, and 

 ossified cartilages of the foot, all of which, in a 

 great measure, arise from concussion, for a 

 horse whose legs stand far under him, will put 

 them down during progression in a perpendi- 

 cular direction, whence the concussion will be 

 greater than when the leg is advanced before 

 the body, and alights in an oblique direction. 

 Contracted heels also are generally the fruits of 

 this conformation. Horses with long pasterns 

 are more liable to ligamentary lameness than 

 others; but as the great length of the pastern 

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