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eighteen inches apart, which is caused by a fuhiess, 

 and continual uneasiness about the chest : the cavity 

 being too small to contain the lungs, &c. in their 

 enlarged situation with ease. 



The hind legs are free from the palsied appearance 

 of those before, and it is not difficult to distinguish it 

 from a common founder, as it is wanting in all its 

 symptoms, except the stiff and numbed appearance of 

 the legs. 



Large bleedings and half an ounce of aloes, given 

 internally in a ball, have sometimes afforded momen- 

 tary relief No effectual remedy has yet been dis- 

 covered. A horse labouring under this disease, is 

 worth but little more than his board, as he is unable to 

 bear fatigue, or undergo severe service. 



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NARROW HEELS, 



Is a disease that often produces lameness without 

 the master of the horse knowing from what cause it 

 proceeds ; often examining his legs, cleaning his hoofs, 

 paring the frogs of his feet, &c. &c. without paying 

 any respect to the shape of the horse's heels, which 

 are always close together and unaturally shaped. 



A horse with narrow heels is unfit to travel, as he 

 is tender footed, and goes cramped, short, and is al- 

 ways subject to lameness, more or less. 



Narrow heels is the eifect of shoes being permitted 

 to remain on a horse that is not used, for three or four 



