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ground. In a hot, or surbated foot, he will 

 be alternately changing, or lifting up his feet. 

 If a foot be pricked, or gravelled, or if the 

 fhoe fet hard upon the foal or heel, or in (hort, 

 if the horfe have any complaint againfl the 

 fmith, he will frequently fhew it, by fetting the 

 injured foot upon the other. Going fhort, 

 and catching up the feet, as if the horfe was 

 treading upon hot iron, alfo denotes uneafy 

 (hoes, or tender feet. Horfes with cramped or 

 contracled finews, or hurt in the knee joints, as 

 poft-hacks frequently are, will fall down fudden- 

 ly in their walk. If a horfe trot fideways, fome- 

 times with one, fometimes with the other foot 

 firft, or if he perpetually tend to one fide of 

 the road, it (hews univerfal fliffnefs from hard 

 labour, and the want of a long run at grafs. 

 Hurts in the loins are known by a rolling or 

 wavering motion of the hind-quarters. In a 

 fudden jerk or drain of the loins, the horfe 

 will feem to go, as it were, whole, and fixed 

 behind, and upon his heels, as if foot-foun- 

 dered. Horfes are not fo often lamed in the 

 back-finews, behind, as before; but I have 

 known feveral cafes of the tendon of the hind- 

 leg being fuddenly let down, and, in the courfe 

 of two or three weeks, by the help of bandage 

 and aftringents, braced again and placed in 

 Jiatu quo. The fymptoms were, lamenefs, and 

 drooping fuddenly at intervals ; inflammation 



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