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Section IX.— LAMENESS. 



SPEAIN OF THE FLEXOE 



TENDONS. 

 SPAYIN. 



NAVICULAE DISEASE. 

 EING BONE. 

 CTJEB. 



BOG SPAVIN. 

 WIND GALLS. 

 THOEOUOH PINS. 



PEICKS FEOM SHOEING. 



SAND CEACK. 



THEUSH. 



SPLINT. 



SIDE BONE. 



SHOULDEE SPEAIN. 



QXJITTOE. 



COENS. 



CANKEE. 



PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 



It is impossible, in a small treatise like this, to give the reader 

 an adequate account of every form of lameness which, from 

 time to time, is known to affect the horse; to do so would 

 require a volume equal in size at least to the present. I shall, 

 therefore, only treat upon some of its principal and most 

 common forms. 



Lameness, as Mr. Percival truly observes, "is but a 

 symptom of disease — not of itself disease." Its causes are 

 innumerable ; the majority of them, however, or what may be 

 termed its exciting causes, are mechanical. The predisposing 

 causes of lameness are vital and hereditary. " The diseases and 

 accidents, of which lameness is commonly a symptom, are 

 inflammation and ulceration of the joints, inflammation 

 and ossification of the periosteal and cartilago-ligamentous 



