AS TO SOUNDNESS. 19 



LECTURE III. 



Examination outside the Stable— Place on Level Ground — Great 

 Superiority of Automatic Movement — Nostrils — Mouth — 

 Milk Teeth Extracted — Lampas — Parrot Mouth — Worn and 

 Broken Incisors — Iiregular Molars — Signs of Hard Mouth- 

 Intermaxillary Space— Poll — "Poll Evil" — Cribbing Strap — 

 Parotid Gland — ^Jugular Vein — Obliteration, Partial and Com- 

 plete — Evidence of Phlebotomy may indicate Serious Disease — 

 Shoulder^ — Pined Shoulder — Collar Marks. 



Gentlemen, — With your permission I will preface the 

 remarks I have to make on the second part of the 

 examination by a few words on the three methods of 

 performing it ; also, on the advantage of going through 

 the movements of the method we adopt, until by their 

 repetition they are removed from the sphere of thought 

 and become automatic. 



Most veterinarians begin by placing the horse on 

 level ground ; after that they adopt one of three 

 methods : either they begin at the nose on the near 

 side and go back-wards, finishing at the near hind 

 foot ; or they go entirely round the horse, passing 

 along the off side from behind forwards. The third 

 mode I shall not dignify by the name of method, as 



