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large. Eafe and Reft (efpecially if the Part be daily 

 bathed with Spirit of Wine) will foreftrift it, as to 

 be imperceptible for the time. 

 Spavin* 

 Below the Curb and Variffe, but more upon the in- 

 £de, beneath the bending of the Hamme, do the Spa- 

 vins come, which are marked 31, in the Figure of 

 the firft Plate, which are very troublefome, and do 

 commonly at la ft lame the Horfe. They are of 

 two kinds, viz.* the Ox Spavin, and the Dry Spavin. 

 The Ox Spavin is a callous and griftly Swelling, hard 

 as a Bone, and fo painful that it makes a Horfe lofe 

 bis Belly. Some Horfes halt with them at the firft 

 coming out of the Stable only, when the Spavins 

 are but young : And I have feen Horfes with large 

 and fmall Ox Spavins, which yet did not lofe their 

 Flanks with them, but trotted very equally, and 

 were fold at the fame Rates as if they had wanted 

 thefe Spavins, becaufe no body obferved them *, for 

 when they were handled they felt as hard as the 

 Bone. Many half-skill'd People fay, that fuch Swel- 

 lings are not Spavins, but the real Bones of the Legs, 

 which grow bigger in fome Horfes than in others. 

 When Ox Spavins do firft feize upon Horfes, they 

 are the more difficult to be obferved, becaufe they 

 do not rife much above the Subftance of the Legs •, 

 but yet at their firft piercing they commonly make 

 a Horfe halt, and afterwards the Swelling growing 

 bigger, the Horfe halts no more with it : But firice 

 they rarely come equally in both theHammes, the 

 one Hamme is eafily perceived to be bigger than the 

 other, which you may better difcern, placing your 

 felf before the Horfe, a little towards one of the 

 Shoulders, than if you were juft behind him : For a 

 Spavin in its Infancy is larger towards the Ply and 

 Bending of the Hamme, than behind it ; and by de- 

 grees it will fo eacreafe, that it will at laft quite 

 lame the Horfe, 



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