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Case 5. — A horse sound in every other respect is 

 brought to you ; you find him aged, wearing leather 

 soles, has been newly shod, his feet neatly rasped, has 

 rather upright short pasterns, and has the slightest touch 

 of hypertrophy of both fetlock joints, frogs half atrophied, 

 but no corns. 



Case 6. — A horse sound in every other respect has 

 long, very oblique pasterns, long toes, low heels, has 

 lYiarks of speedy-cut on both heels, has flat feet, and 

 brittle, as shown by their being chipped, and has a very 

 small hypertrophy of one fetlock joint. 



In these cases you are supposed to have to say 

 whether the horse is or is not sound. Could you give 

 an opinion at once, without having any doubt, in any 

 one of these cases? I don't think you could; and 

 yet I might have multiplied these cases a hundredfold 

 and still not have given you examples of a tenth part. 

 They are practically unlimited, and the only satisfac- 

 tory method of dealing with so wide a subject will be 

 for us (i) to go over each departure from the normal 

 one by one, and (2) to enumerate and discuss the 

 more common combinations. With this method in 

 view I will now proceed to plaoe Jpefore you the fol- 

 lowing classification : — 



I. Anomalies of Size : 



1. Feet too small. 3. Feet unequal in size. 



2, ,, ,, large. 4. Frogs atrophied. 



5. Frogs large, "fleshy." 



