2 ON THE NAVICULAR DISEASK. 



made on ray mind ; and although twelve years' ex- 

 perience in active practice since that period have 

 induced me to draw some other inferences, which 

 may not exactly accord with the first impressions, 

 yet they will be seen to harmonize in the aggre- 

 gate*. 



I believe I am correct in stating, that before the 

 year 1816, the College Museum, splendid as it 

 then was, contained but a solitary specimen of the 

 navicular disease, and which was simply a diseased 



Navicuiai joint navicular bone, divested of its ligaments and ten- 

 disease Ull- 1 , T. «- >-M 1 1 1 



known as tiie dou ; but Mr. Colcmau has, on several occasions 



f^eneral seat of i • i • i I 



chronic lame- gincc, caudldly acknowledged m his lectures, that 



iiess of the lore :; ^ o 



feet. j^g j^ad looked upon it previously to that time as a 



specimen of disease of a very rare occurrence. I 

 shall, however, attempt to shew that it is a very 

 prevalent disease, and that it is the general cause of 

 the groggy foot lameness instead of the occasional, 

 chance, false-step disease, which some of the very 

 old writers on farriery are said to have described 

 liearly a century ago. That they took only a super- 

 ficial view of this truly formidable complaint, and 

 altogether omitted to connect it with the general 

 foot lameness, I think is ({uite manifest ; or surely I 

 should not have it in my power to say, that not an 



* The importunt paper to which Mr. Turner here alludes, ami 

 which, in our opinion, fully establishes his claim as the first person 

 who broujjht this disease fairly under the notice of the profession, we 

 are reluctantly compelled, by the press of other matter, to omit. It 

 shall be inserted at an early o]>portunity. — EdUvrxaf The f'\tcrin(ii'iiin. 



