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that the horfe may tread as eafy as poflible, 

 and the flopping to be daily renewed. Drefs 

 with wound ointment, in which is mixed 

 myrrh, ma{l:ich,and ohbanum, very finely pow- 

 dered. In cafe of fungus ; precipitate, fubH- 

 mate water, &c. Should the coffin be found, 

 a good new hoof will be produced ; but it muft 

 be noted, the old hoof will fall fpontaneoufly, 

 and ought by no means to be removed by 

 violence, or the knife ; unlefs indeed when it 

 may comprefs the new, 



I^AMENESS FROM RELAXED OR CON- 

 TRACTED SINEWS. 



The ufual feats of thefe lameneffes in horfes, 

 are the Knee-joints ; the Back-sinew^s, or 

 Tendo Achilles \ the Pastern, and Coffin- 

 joints ; the Loins, or Couplings; the 

 Hip, or Whirl-bone ; the Stifle, and the 

 Hock. 



Alternate extenfion and contra61ion, or elaf- 

 ticity, feem to be the grand fource, or medium 

 of motion, in all animated bodies; the mufcular, 

 tendinous, and nervous fibres, the ligaments of the 

 joints, the mufcles themfelves, and their appeit*- 

 dages the tendons, are all endowed with their 

 appropriate portion of this elallic power. The 

 animal fibre I fuppofe to be in its perfeft ftate, 

 when its powers of extenfion and retradion 



are 



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