ON THE HACKNEY AND HUNTER. 210, 



teeth. I know not why, but I think bred cattle 

 mod fubject. to it. 



A variety of rules have been laid down, to 

 determine the feat of lamenefs in Horfes, few 

 of which, I believe, to be infallible. Very little 

 elfe is to be difcovered by the old method of 

 turning a horfe, which is lame before, fhort 

 round, than that you have increafed his pain. 

 Ofmer fays, if a horfe drags his toe upon the 

 ground, the ligaments of the fhoulder are cer- 

 tainly drained, or perhaps even the fcapula, 

 or blade-bone diflocated, backward or for- 

 ward. But drains of lefs confequence may 

 happen to the fhoulder, which are very diffi- 

 cult to diftinffuifh from thofe feated in the 



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lower extremities. In fuch cafe, I know of no 

 other rule by which to judge of the foundnefs 

 of the moulders, than that which I have al- 

 ready noted in Italics, a few pages back. Both 

 the hand and the eye mould be feduloufly em- 

 ployed, in the endeavour to form a correci 

 judgment; the former much more than is 

 ufually the cafe. The paftern-joint mould be 

 turned by the hand, in order to difcover any 

 lurking uneafmefs. The patient himfelf, al- 

 though unable to fpeak, will give very plain 

 indications, in particular, by conflantly at- 

 tempting to favour the injured part. In ltrains 

 of the coffin-joint, or bone of the foot, the 

 horfe will ftand with the toe only touching the 



ground. 



