Part I. PerfeB Farrier. 3 2 



Every Saddle- horfe which hath a Splint fliould be 

 lefs valu'd than if he wanted it ; and fo proportion- 

 ably if he have two. In Coach- horfes the Imper- 

 fection is not fo confiderable. Some deny that a 

 Splint mounts upwards, but that it only dilates and 

 extends it felf to the very Knee. But what way 

 foever it cometh thither, it is certain that a Splint 

 joining to the Knee always lames the Horfe. 



Horfes have in the fame place where the Splints 

 come, that which we call Furies, which are two 

 Splints joined by the ends, one above the other, and 

 are more dangerous than a fimple Splint •, and there- 

 fore 1 would never buy a Horfe which had them. 

 Ojfelets. 



There are fome Horfes which have little Bones or 

 hard Excrefcences in theKnees, call'd in French, Ojfe- 

 lets; which is an I m perfection not very common,' 

 and the harder to be difcover'd, becaufe they appear 

 to be of the fame Subftance with the reft of the Knee. 

 It is a kind of large Splint juft upon the Knee, 

 which defcends about the breadth of two Fingers 

 lower on the inflde of the Shank-bone than on the 

 outfide. Some Horfes have two of them, one up- 

 on each Fore-leg. If a Horfe have any of thefe Im- 

 perfections (excepting the fimple Splint) viz.. the 

 peggd Splint, the Splint joyning to the Knee, or Back- 

 finew, theF«Ju>, and the Ojfelet, he is worth little 

 or nothing. 



Mallender. 



There cometh in the bending of the Knee a Cre- 

 vice or Chop, called a Mallender : It is fometimes fo 

 painful as to make a Horfe halt. Every Horfe with 

 a Mallender mould be the lefs efteemed for it *, for as 

 he grows old, the pain will increafe {0 as to make 

 him halt at fir ft going out of the Stable. 

 Forme. 



Below the Paftern-joint, and in the very Paftern, 1 

 you muft feel if there be not that which is called in 



D French 



