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often go apparently soundly, though they are ever after- 

 wards liable to accidents. When this cure occurs they 

 do not move in pain, but are still UNSOUND. 



Where the disorganization is only in front of the pas- 

 tern bone, and not in the way of any joint, or approach- 

 ing the heels, all inflammation or disease has disappeared. 

 The animal will suffer no inconvenience from quick work, 

 and is therefore sound, but shows a BLEMISH. 



CANKER. 



Thrushes neglected will turn to canker. This disease 

 in the hoof is easily detected, and is very troublesome to 

 cure. A cankered horse is UNSOUND. 



WINDGALLS. 



Wind galls are situate at the bottom of the cannon 

 bone on each side of the leg, just above the pastern joint, 

 at the union of these two bones. They yield to pressure. 

 They appear to the eye like small enlargements, and feel 

 soft to the hand when it is passed over them. They are 

 not an UNSOUNDNESS in themselves, unless, as in rare 

 instances and very extreme cases, they occasion lameness. 



They are a proof that the horse has done work, their 

 size depending upon the age at which this work was done, 

 and the neglect the horse was subjected to at the time. 



Unless they are of the worst kind (the largest size), 

 I never would reject a superior horse for windgalls. 

 They are no inconvenience to him, and are not an unsound- 

 ness, becoming less and less as the work is decreased 

 till they disappear altogether; they are never seen in very 

 old and fairly- worked horses. With the exception of the 

 above-mentioned case, horses having windgalls are SOUND. 



