SOUND AND UNSOUND HORSES 



time noting whether the elbow is 

 all sound. 



The examination of the pectoral limb 

 must be carried out by regarding it, 

 from the forearm to the coronet, as 

 having anterior, posterior, inner and 

 outer surfaces. 



Begin with the anterior and ghde the 

 right hand over the forearm (sprain, 

 etc.), until the carpus is reached. Draw 

 the limb forwards and carefully inspect 

 the skin of the knee (blemishes and 

 broken knee), feel the sub-cutaneous 

 tissue for thickening, or for any disten- 

 sion of the carpal sheaths. 



Continue this examination over the 

 metacarpus — noting whether there be 

 an exostosis, blemish, etc. — go over the 

 fetlock (ringbone) to the coronet, 

 remembering that a sandcrack at the 

 top and front of a " fore " hoof 

 is not uncommonly met with, 

 though usually at the quarters. Now 



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