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that the shoulder is stramed, or otherwise injured j 

 and turning his attention there, leaves the part 

 actually diseased to its chance. I have so fre- 

 quently been told by men that their horses are 

 lame in the shoulder, and it so often occurs that 

 under this conviction they part with them as in a 

 case admitting of no cure, that I have thought 

 myself justified in departing a little from my 

 avowed object, to caution people against being too 

 easily led into this mischievous error. If there is 

 a suspicion that the seat of the disease is the 

 shoulder, the horse should be tried in various 

 ways, to ascertain if difference of ground or pace 

 will diminish or increase the lameness. Where the 

 shoulder is injured, the horse will be equally lame 

 on turf, straw, or the road ; he will not easily be 

 stimulated to a trot or a canter, and if he is, the 

 limp in the action will become yet more apparent : 

 the reverse is usually the case, when the feet or 

 legs are in fault. He will lie down and rise with 

 great difficulty. In all these cases, of course, much 

 depends on the degree of injury ; but however 

 trifling, it is likely to show itself more in propor- 

 tion as speed is increased or continued; and in 

 this respect, it differs essentially from slight injury 

 in other parts of the leg. It is well known that 

 this is often concealed from the eye, by urginor the 

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