CONTENTS. 



LECTURE IX. 



FACE 



Evils of Calkins — Evils of Paring and so Weakening the Sole 

 — Flat Soles — Degrees of Flatness — Positive Flatness and 

 Seedy Toe — Low Heels — Calkined Heels — Knuckling 

 Fore Legs — A Horse with Low Heels may be Quite 

 Sound — Long Toes and Sprain on Back Tendons — 

 Pasterns Short and Upright — Toes Out-turned — Brushing 

 — In-turned Toes, Digging and Stumbling — The Unnerved 

 Foot .......... 6; 



LECTURE X. 



The Unnerved or " Nerved " Fore Foot — Discovers itself in 

 the Gait — The Tissues of the "Nerved" foot degenerate 

 — Brittle Hoof — Pricks in Shoeing — Gathered Nails — 

 Bruised Sole — Bruised Coronet — Speedy Cut — Diseases 

 Obvious — Grease — Ringbone — Sidebones — Corns . . 72 



LECTURE XL 



Navicular Disease . . . . . . . . .81 



LECTURE XII. 



Sandcrack — Thrush — Thrush as a Constitutional Disease com- 

 pared to Fistula in Ano — Thrush always a Bad Form of 

 Unsoundness — Elbow : Tumour on Elbow — The Back 

 Tendons examined — "Wind-gall" — "Thoropin " — Filled 

 Legs ............ 90 



LECTURE XIII. 



Mallanders — The Back Tendon — Signs of Injury to the Back 

 Tendon — Suspensary Ligament — Its Signs of Injury — The 

 Sesamoid Bones — Splints — The Foot Lifted . . . 100 



LECTURE XIV. 



Fractured Ribs — Herniae — Down in the Hip or Fractured 

 Ilium — The Stifle Joint — The Tibia — Fracture of Tibia — 

 The Hocks — Curbs in Human Beings — Mechanism of the 

 Hocks — Coarse Hocks — Spavin ..... 106 



