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CHAP. XLII. 



0/ a Shoulder-Wren chy Shoulder-Slip, SinefW" 

 Sprain, &c. 



BEFORE the Reader enter into this Chapter, 

 his Notions and Judgment fhould be full 

 fraught with the Properties of an Animal Thread or 

 Fibre, for of fuch are the Mufcles, Tendons, ^c. 

 concern'd in the Grievance, compofed. And thefe 

 Properties have been explained before. 



Horfes above all other Creatures are fubjefted to 

 thefe Kinds of Ailments, and yet fcarce any Thing 

 is more difficult in the Art of Farriery than to tell, 

 in fome Cafes, whether the Complaint be in the 

 Shoulder, Back-Sinew, or Foot : And tho' every 

 Farrier v/ill, at the f rft flight View of a lame Horfe, 

 pretend to tell you the Affair is in this or that par- 

 ticular Place ; yet I would no more believe or truft 

 them, than a young, unfledged Phyfician {who has 

 juft received his Difpatches from his College) in the 

 Cure of any obftinate and ilubborn Diftemper, not- 

 withllanding the Phyfician and Farrier are alike po- 

 fitive in their Way ; therefore if your Hcrfe be lame 

 before or in his Fore-Parts, confider rightly his Way 

 of going. But firll: I mull inform the Reader, that 

 a Horfe' s Shoulder-Blades are not fixed to his Body 

 by any Kind of Articulation or Joint, but by Ap- 

 portion or being laid on along the Side of the Ribs, 

 and there failen'd by the Mufcles, ^c. which lie 

 below and above them ; fo that when a Horfe re- 

 ceives a Hurt in the Shoulder, it is the Mufcles, 

 Tendons, iffc. which are relaxed or ftretched at that 

 JuntSlure of Time, beyond their natural Tone of 

 Elafticity or Springinefs. 



If the Lamenefs be in the Foot (except it be a The Signs 

 hot furbated Foot ) the Horfe will halt more the o ' Lame- 

 further he travels ; that is, if the Complaint be the H.^^^ ^" ^^ 

 Gravel, or a Crulh with the Shoe, or a Nail that ^^' 

 bears too hard upon a Vein, b'V. he will not mend 



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