SOUNDNESS IN HORSES. 



LECTURE I. 



Introduction — Horse Examination might well form a Specialty — 

 General View — The Horse remains a Living Testimony to 

 your Opinions — Importance of Method — Professor Dick's 

 Method — Watch the Horse in his Stall — Cribbing, Weaving, 

 Windsucking — Weaving — Attitude in Standing — Spavin and 

 Stringhalt — Latent Spavin — Examination of Eyes -^ 

 Ophthalmia — Iritis — Tension compared. 



Gentlemen, — It is customary, on delivering the first 

 lecture of a course, to refer the students attending 

 the class to the best text-books on the subject; but, 

 unfortunately for me and for you, there are no works 

 at all on the matter which is to occupy our attention 

 now; so that you will have to rely entirely on what 

 you hear and see, and take notes as best you may. 



There is possibly no subject in connection with horses 

 of more importance than their examination as to sound- 

 ness and fitness; and I venture to assert that if the 

 same spirit for specialism existed in our profession as 



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