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CHAPTER V. 



BLEMISHES. 



Blemishes are the osseous excrescences or tumours 

 which are to be found arising in the vicinity of articula- 

 tion detrimental to motion, and so depreciatory to the 

 animal. Some of these blemishes are hereditary. 



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Osseous or hard blemishes are : the spavin on the internal 

 inferior face of the hock. It is an exostosis on the 

 internal fibula at the superior portion of the head of the 

 canon. In this case it is termed hard. That which 

 commences with a tumour, not as yet ossified, is called 

 the ox-spavin {eparvin de bceuf.) 



The curb, osseous blemish, is situated at the base of 

 the tibia, in the internal superior part of the hock. 



The jarde is an osseous tumour at the inferior portion 

 of the hock, or the head of the external fibula. When 

 the exostosis makes a posterior protuberance and falsifies 

 the line of the tendon by the convexity of its develop- 

 ment, it is designated by the name jarde. Both in 

 painting and sculpture, antique artistic productions have 

 this blemish very prominent. Phidias is, I believe, the 

 only one who knew how to avoid it in his lengthy series 

 of bas-reliefs of the Parthenon. 



One might be led to believe that, in olden days, this 



