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parts of the body. Professor Coleman and Mr. White on the 

 bursa mucuscc or windgalls. Strains in the back sinews. Break- 

 ing down. Ligamentary shoulder strains, difficult to be distin- 

 guished from lameness in the legs or feet. Strained in the loins, 

 or megrim horses. Lameness in the stifle — of the hip-joint, round 

 or whirl-bone. Jardons or capped hocks. Stringhalt. Rheu- 

 matism, p. 57 — 62. 



SECTION XI. p. 62. 



General appearance and condition of the horse, of consequence to 

 a purchaser. Lean and unthrifty. Hide bound or surfeit. War- 

 bles or small tumours on the back, indications of high keep and 

 want of exercise. The dreadful and incurable glanders. Lam- 

 pascus — the lampas in the mouth. Gigs, bladders or flaps. 

 Barbs or paps. The cankered or ulcerated mouth. Hurts from 

 heavy and lacerating bits. Wolves' teeth. The legs. Chronic 

 lameness from derangement of the internal structure of the foot, 

 a lost case. The navicular lameness, said to have been discovered 

 by Messrs. Turners of Croydon and Regent Street. The patten- 

 shoe. The author's deference to the superior authority of Mr. 

 Goodwin. The horrible, damnable, and useless conti- 

 nental OPERATION OF TEARING OUT, OR DRAWING THE SOLE 

 — now, or ought to be, universally and utterly exploded in 

 Britain. Shoeing. The common methods. Osmer's seated shoe. 

 Mr. Goodwin's shoe. This man's shoe, and that man's shoe — 

 fancy articles, p. 62—68. 



SECTION XII. p. 68. 



Fanciful theories. La Fosse's half-moon shoes. The patent iron 

 frog. Expansion. Necessity of iron shoes. The legs univer- 

 sally fail before the feet. The great consequence of this branch 

 of art, p. 68—72. 



SECTION XIII. p. 72. 



The bar shoe. Mr. Goodwin's bar shoe. And old experiment with 

 those shoes. Snape. Grass shoes or tips. Hunting and racing 

 shoe, or plate. Probable use of Cherry's portable forge for the 

 running stables. Ancient screw shoe. The moveable toe for 

 hard wearing horses. Frost shoes. Frost nails in racing piates 

 for dry and slippery courses. Old sweepstakes over Epsom, by 

 officers of the Guards. Spectacles for Jockeys in wet seasons 

 and deep courses, p. 72 — 77. 



SECTION XIV. p. 78. 



Striking and wounding the legs. The common cause. Osmer's 

 proposed remedy. Moorcroft's experiments. The only resource 



