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NAVICULARTHRITIS. 



No class of persons feel the inconvenience of a defective nomen- 

 clature, in any branch of science or art on which they may be 

 engaged, more than writers and lecturers. Tn titles and names in 

 particular, the obligation to use two or more words to denote that 

 which admits of having its signification expressed equally well by 

 one, is a tax they are continually paying ; until at length the repe- 

 tition of the periphrasis becomes so tiresome that they begin to 

 bethink themselves if they cannot devise some substitute for it in 

 the shape of a single word. It is this consideration, coupled with 

 the one that really it is disreputable to our profession not before now 

 to have had an appropriate name for the disease I am about to treat 

 on, that has induced me to offer for acceptation the one superscribed. 

 NAVICULARTHRITIS — a compound of the radical words Nai»5 or navis 

 or navicula, Afi^ov, and itis — literally signifying NAVICULAR-JOINT- 

 INFLAMMATION — is, to my mind, the term we have long wanted. 

 Naviculitis means but navicular-inflammation, and therefore is 

 indefinite in its signification. 



Dr. Brauel, Professor at the University of Cazan, whose ad- 

 mirable Essay has recently been translated and inserted in The 

 Veterinarian, calls the disease Podotrocholitis ; and a very 

 significant and appropriate appellation this is — classically derived, 

 as it is, from <c7ov(;, a foot, and Tpo%^^o?, a pulley — an appellation only 

 inferior in my mind, for our use at least, to navicularthritis, from 

 the circumstance of one being so much more familiar to our ears 

 and tongues than the other. 



Definition. — By navicularthritis is to be understood, disease 

 of the navicular joint giving rise to lameness. 



The History of Navicularthritis will embrace its discovery 

 and its PROMULGATION. I never myself heard the navicular disease 

 or navicular joint disease so much even as mentioned before Mr. 

 Turner published his papers on the subject. My study of veteri- 

 nary science, as a pupil, commenced and ended under Professor 

 Coleman; and certainly never by my teacher, that I have the most 

 distant recollection of, was the word " navicular," in connexion with 



