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tern-joints is well known. Some horfes are 

 very little fubjeft to them, even if hard-work- 

 ed; others will have them before they have 

 done any work at all. If not too large, and 

 they feel elaftic and difappear on reft, they do 

 not render the horfe unfound ; but if large, 

 and foft to the touch, they become exceeding 

 painful, and the horfe foon grows lame. The 

 only radical cure is excifion, which I have 

 experienced, and mall defcribe in its place. 



The ring-bone, is a hard, or bony excref- 

 cence, upon the coronet, which fometimes al- 

 moft furrounds the top of the hoof, occahoned 

 perhaps, by the iron lock, which has faftened a 

 clog or fetter; it alfo may proceed from no via- 

 ble caufe, and is then fuppofed to be hereditary. 

 However, I have never yet known it effectually 

 cured; the horfes fuppofed to be cured, never 

 (landing found in work. 



A QUITTOR, Or HORNY QUITTOR, Or whlt- 



low, is alfo fituated on the coronet, or between 

 hair and hoof. Thofe which I have feen, were 

 immediately above the infide quarter; when 

 deeply feated, is no otherwife curable, than 

 with the lofs of part of the hoof, whence a 

 feam, or apparent partition, up above the heel, 

 called a false quarter. In this latter cafe, 

 the foundnefs of the horfe can fcarce ever be 

 depended on, and he is liable to drop down 



fuddenly 



