ON LAMENESS. 105 



active materials. Therefore, as lameness arising 

 from disease in the bones, whether it occupies 

 the coronet of the foot, or the hough of the 

 hind leg, may be reduced to the same prin- 

 ciples, it follows that the same prescription will 

 be adapted for the attainment of a cure in either 

 case. 



Farmers and breeders of horses ride them 

 from three years of age, until their legs and 

 feet, from premature exertion, are so much in- 

 jured as to render their soundness doubtful, and 

 this state often comes on before they are six 

 years old. Under these circumstances they are 

 offered for sale, and generally warranted per- 

 fectly sound. But although such horses do 

 not manifest lameness in any particular leg, by 

 a want of harmony in their motion, yet their in- 

 jured state may be detected by their stepping 

 short with their fore legs, and pressing princi- 

 pally on the toe; and upon examining their 



legs 



