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These minute splinty particles often produce obscure 

 forms of lameness in the fore-Hmb, and require very 

 careful manipulation to detect their presence. They 

 are easily overlooked. 



Strictly speaking, it is the duty of every veterinary 

 surgeon to reject for splint, because one can never 

 give a positive forecast as to what may or may not 

 happen. Moreover, it is a deviation from the normal 

 condition, no matter whether it interferes with the 

 present or future utility of the animal — the latter 

 having been given as a legal definition of soundness. 



Sometimes the splinty deposit is on the outside of 

 the canon bone, but towards the front of it. 



When examining the limb for splint, care must be 

 taken not to confuse the button of the splint bones 

 (inner and outer) with splint. The Editor remembers 

 a horsekeeper asking him to look at a cart foal born 

 with splints, but it was the buttons of the splint 

 bones that were very prominent that deceived the 

 innocent — one must add ignorant — horsekeeper. The 

 writer was thankful that he had sufficient of that 

 necessary commodity — tact and modesty, not to let 

 the horsekeeper appear such a simpleton before his 

 stable subordinates. 



Lameness through splint is not at all uncommon, 

 though mostly occurring during the formative period. 



STAKED HORSES 



It may be readily supposed that, from the number 

 of years I have followed fox-hounds in the strongest 

 inclosed counties of England, I have witnessed the 



