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DISEA.SES 



Locomotive Organs. 



Lamenesses — Including Founder (or Laminitis), Corns, Quitters, 

 Navicular Disease, &c. 



Exostosis — Spavins. Splints and Ringbones. 



Injuries— Sprains, Capped Hocks and Elbows, Fractures and Dislo- 

 cations, Open Synovial Joints and Cavities, Broken Knees, &c. 



Wounds— Punctured, Contused, Abraded, Lacerated, Incised. 



LAMENESS IN GENERAL. 



These constitute a most important class of injuries, com- 

 monly named Lame?iesses, in contradistinction to the Sicknesses 

 of the Horse, or diseases of the feet and limbs. Lameness 

 is the one symptom of these diseases most apparent to the 

 senses of ordinary people, and hence they cannot under- 

 stand how an animal may be lame without having any disease, 

 or have diseased feet and limbs without any perceptible 

 lameness. An exhaustive work on these and kindred injuries 

 would require an octavo volume of 800 pages for their eluci- 

 dation, and how to compress within the limits of a popular 

 work in any lucid manner an understanding of their diag- 

 nosis and treatment is far from an easy performance. It 

 will be necessary to digress a little from the plan of this 

 little work to enter very briefly into a description of the 

 structure and function of the different tissues which enter 

 in the formation of the horse's foot. When we consider the 



