CHAPTER II 



SPECIAL PARTS AND THEIR DIS- 

 EASES IN RELATION TO UN- 

 SOUNDNESS. 



When choosing a horse, in order that undue 

 advantage may not be taken of the intending 

 purchaser, it is particularly necessary that the 

 latter should take special notice of certain 

 regions, in order to ascertain the presence or 

 absence of those diseases which are acknow- 

 ledged by horsemen either to interfere with 

 the animal's utility or cause it to be of less 

 marketable value than when free from one or 

 more of the diseases hereafter enumerated. 



The plan adopted by the veterinarian is that 



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