1 06 EX A MINA TION OF HORSES 



LECTURE XIV. 



Fractured Ribs — Hernia — 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. 



Gentlemen, — Having now finished the "fore hand " we 

 pass along the trunk to the hind limb. 



The walls of the chest are usually free from disease, 

 but occasionally we find evidences of broken ribs. Some 

 shoeing smiths have a vicious habit of striking a horse 

 with a hammer with which they are nailing on the shoe 

 when he happens to be restless during the process. 

 Should a rib have been fractured and have healed, well 

 and good, the only evidence remaining will most likely 

 be an enlargement on the rib which is of httle conse- 

 quence if the injury is of old standing. It sometimes 

 happens, however, that you have disease of the rib remain- 

 ing, and a discharging sinus leading to it, which is rather 

 serious, inasmuch as remedial measures may have to be 

 adopted that will endanger the horse's life, or at least 

 that will lay him off work. 



Herniae are the next things you look for. We frequently 



