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obvious, that one would wonder, how common 

 fenfe could poflibly avoid {tumbling upon 

 them. Hones, which plainly tell of themfelves, 

 that they are lame from hard and hot feet, and 

 over- {trained back-line ws, are ufually contra- 

 dicted by their keepers or doctors, who rather 

 choofe they mould be lame in the flioulders. 

 Should the cheft be of a peculiar thin make, 

 and have a cavity in front, the bufinefs is done 

 at once, and the cafe declared a chert-founder. 

 That difeafe is then perhaps hereditary, as I 

 have more than once feen foals, of only a few 

 days old, with the faid cavity, and all the 

 appearance of a waited cheft. To be ferious, 

 I have alfo feen a cafe of a recent and fudden 

 foot- founder, with the cheft remarkably {hrunk, 

 and a violent palpitation in the cavity, for 

 which Ofmer accounts very rationally. The 

 flioulders feldom receive any other damage 

 from labour, than concuffions, which occafion 

 ftiffnefs and cramp. It is very plain, that the 

 articulations of the lower joints and the hoofs, 

 enduring the fevereft fervice from being obliged 

 to fupport the whole natural and im poled 

 weight, muft be mod exoofed to accidents. 



When the horfe wounds his pattern joints, 

 in going, it is called knocking. If the places 

 be healed, an efcar will be difcovered by the 

 finger, or the frefh-grown hair will be long 

 .and uneven. The fpcedy-cut, and knock ar 



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