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such as you will frequently have to decide upon. I^et 

 us take six cases, of minor combinations, but quite sound 

 in every other respect. 



Case i. — A gentleman asks you to examine a six- 

 year-old carriage gelding in hard working condition. 

 The horse has been in regular work. You find his knees 

 tremble just a very little when he comes to stand; his 

 feet are just a shade warmer than common ; he has soles 

 not too flat, but inclined to be flat ; and he is shod with 

 shoes having a little more cover than common, and with 

 a shade more iron in them. 



Case 2.— A seven-year-old carriage gelding is sent for 

 your examination. You find him sound in every other 

 respect, but you find him " leggy," flatsided, wearing 

 " calkined " fore shoes, shreddy half-atrophied frogs, with 

 no discharge (thrush), but the bottom of the cleft of the 

 frog has a white appearance. 



Case 3. — A horse, sound in every other respect, is 

 brought to you. You find him five years old ; fore feet 

 small ; lateral cartilages less yielding than common, but 

 yet not at all ossified ; toes turned a little in, and the 

 least possible hypertrophy on the top of one hoof on the 

 outside, and the part of the shoe immediately under this 

 hypertrophy a little more worn than is common in this 

 situation. 



Case 4. — A carriage horse, sound in every other re- 

 spect, has fore feet of unequal size, and the wall of the 

 smaller foot is dry and brittle, yet so far there is plenty of 

 wall to nail to, and no undue heat. 



