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CLASS I. 



SPLENTS, SPAVINS, WINDGALLS, 

 LAMENESS, AND STRAINS. 



SPLENTS. 



Of which various accounts have been given 

 without any thing satisfactory as to their ori- 

 gin or cure, except that ** they are hard ex- 

 '^ crescences of different shapes and sizes on 

 *' the shank bone, which often disappear of 

 '' themselves;" that ^^ they are not danger- 

 '' ous but when situated near the joints, or 

 '' appear very large upon the back part of 

 ^' the bone, and press against the back si- 

 '^ new/' All this is most certainly true, and 

 generally believed to be so. Now let us re- 

 mark what follows as directions for cure : 

 *' That the hair is to be shaved, the part to 

 be rubbed with a '^ round stick tillit is almost 

 ^^ raWy and then touched with oil of origanum 



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