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indication of it is shown. A deep-seated bruise 

 will often be followed by a secretion of matter 

 under the horny sole, without any visible enlarge- 

 ment or depression of the cavity of the hoof; 

 sometimes (though rarely) the injury is detected 

 by the appearance of matter exuding from fissures 

 in the coronet ; but where external symptoms like 

 these are wanting, the inexperienced farrier assumes 

 that the shoulder is strained, or otherwise injured, 

 and turning his attention there, leaves the part 

 actually diseased to its chance. I have so fre- 

 quently been told by men that their horses are 

 lame in the shoulder, and it so often occurs that 

 under this conviction they part with them as in a 

 case admitting of no cure, that it is important to 

 caution people against being too easily led into this 

 mischievous error. If there is a suspicion that the 

 seat of the disease is the shoulder, the horse should 

 be tried in various ways, to ascertain if difference 

 of ground or pace will diminish or increase the 

 lameness. "Where the shoulder is injured, the 

 horse will be equally lame on turf, straw, or the 

 road ; he will not easily be stimulated to a trot or 

 a canter, and if he is, the limp in the action will 



