140 EXAMINATION OF HORSES 



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LECTURE XVII. 



Sallanders — Ring-bone — Sandcrack — Tuberosity of Ischium knocked 

 off — Go over the off side like the near side, but look under the 

 Mane for Poll-evil — Case — Time required for the whole of 

 these Movements Five Minutes — Advised to Practise these 

 Movements on a Sound Horse — The Third Part of the 

 Examination — Testing for Lameness — Testing the **Wind" — 

 How best accomplished. 



Gentlemen, — I trust that our survey of the hock and 

 its defects and diseases — such as you would have to 

 grapple with in an examination for soundness — has been 

 sufficiently perfect to enable you to do justice to so 

 important a part. 



AVe next proceed downwards in front of the leg, having 

 looked for and not found " sallanders," a skin disease 

 affecting the skin in front of the hock that is creased 

 during flexion of the joint. 1 have already spoken of 

 its analogue, " mallanders," and the same remarks very 

 well apply to both. We proceed just in the same way 

 below the hock in front as below the knee in front, but 

 expect to find any important disease, such as ring-bone 

 and sandcrack, va front of the limb, as it is on the front 

 of the limb that most pressure comes in its function of 

 body propeller. 



