AS TO SOUNDNESS. 105 



You are supposed to have run your fingers down the 

 tendon, the hgament, and the cannon bone successively, 

 while the horse has been bearing his weight upon the 

 limb ; you are now to lift the limb and hold it by the 

 pastern with your right hand, and by pushing aside the 

 tendon with your left thumb, you will be enabled to feel 

 the back of the cannon bone. Occasionally splints occur 

 in this situation, and do not appear on the outer aspect 

 at all. You will now be enabled also to feel the upper 

 part of the suspensary ligament before it bifurcates. 



We now pass on to the fetlock joint; look for evi- 

 dence of neurotomy ; the back of the pasterns ; and come 

 down upon the top of the back of the foot and try the 

 lateral ligaments ; observe the width of the heel, then 

 lift the foot and hold it with the sole looking well up- 

 wards and observe — 



1. If the shoe is evenly worn. 



2. The amount of concavity of the sole. 



3. The frog, its size, shape, etc. 



4. The cleft of the frog, for thrush. 



Seeing that all matters pertaining to the foot, and there- 

 fore these last conditions, have had a full share of atten- 

 tion, we now pass on to other parts. 



