loo EXAMINATION OF HORSES 



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. 



Gentlemen, — Having satisfied yourselves that there is 

 no tendency to filled legs, which condition you must 

 remember passes away with exercise, and of itself shows 

 the folly of examining a horse while warm, you now pro- 

 ceed down the limb and examine each part separately. 

 We are now supposed to have found no enlarged burs^e, 

 so that the skin at the back of the knee claims our atten- 

 tion. Here we look for what we seldom find, namely, 

 " mallanders," a skin disease occurring only from shameful 

 neglect. It is a very trifling ailment, but is an unsound- 

 ness while it lasts. If neglected, the skin cracks and a 

 most intractable sore results, necessitating absence ot 

 motion (rest) for a longer or shorter period. Withhold 

 your certificate until the malady, a most trivial one under 

 proper treatment, disappears. 



If the limbs are clean and cool, your left thumb and 

 fore-finger grasps the back tendon and slides down it 

 from the knee to the fetlock. It ought to be quite free 



