64 THE HORSE. 



in the mouth, are old terms, for soft bladders or pus- 

 tules with black heads, growing withinside the lips, 

 level with the great jaw teeth. These are chiefly 

 found in cart and the coarser breeds of horses, and 

 have been known to equal the size of a walnut, being 

 then exceedingly painful, and an impediment to mas- 

 tication. Barbs or paps, are small excrescences 

 beneath the tongue. The cankered, or ulcerated 

 mouth, may ensue on the neglect of the above 

 excrescences. Hurts in the mouth, tongue, and jaw 

 bone, from the senseless and inhuman torture of 

 heavy and lacerating bits, are sufficiently conspicuous, 

 and demand instant and patient attention. Wolves' 

 teeth, are two small superfluous ones, growing in 

 the upper jaw next the grinders, and are very painful 

 to the animal during mastication. The old method 

 of their removal with a mallet and gouge, was a very 

 dangerous one, and it may be hoped a more safe 

 practice has been discovered. 



Round, gourdy legs, grease, moist frogs, and run- 

 ning thrushes discover themselves. 



Chronic lameness in the bones, or derangement of 

 the internal structure of the foot, ever so difficult to 

 ascertain or identify, so far as I have experienced, is 

 a lost cas\ Lameness of the coffin bone is an old 

 subject of complaint, but until of late we have not 

 heard of navicular lameness; that is to say, of the 

 navicular bone ; but I should suppose that an affec- 

 tion of the one would be communicated to the other. 

 Mr. Turner, of Croydon, and of Regent-street, is said 

 to have discovered the navicular lameness, and its 

 remedy, of the details of which I have no information. 

 I have formerly spoken with decision against the 



