52 ON THE XAYICIJLAR DISEASE. 



anotlicr duty to perform : tliis is, to warn the ouner 



against the slow ihoufjh certain evil tliat will airain 



Liability of this accrue to this joint if the animal is suhiected tolon^ 



disease 10 re- ^ u r^ 



SaiEg' intervals of confinement in a stall, one of the remote 

 Tontintetyfh ^^ prcdisposing causcs of this disease, and which is 

 Tn aSr""" f^lmost invariably applied to the greater proportion 

 of the most valuable horses kept in London. 



Servants have an aversion to dirty their horses' 

 legs when their masters omit to work them. 

 - Touching my remarks on this unnaturally qui- 

 escent state of the foot, together with the various 

 concurring circumstances which establish this de- 

 structive and prevalent disease, I beg leave to refer 

 you to my navicular paper, published in " The 

 Veterinarian'' of February (1829). 



I feel particularly anxious not to be misunderstood 

 as to the kind of navicular cases that I have confi- 

 dence in being able to cure. 

 SiZ'"vviS,r With the acute or recent case, accompanied by 

 .Z'irl'J,!;;;'''''^'^'^^' considerable lameness, there will be abetter 

 chance of a radical cure than with a chronic case, 

 attended by only a slight lameness, though both 

 such cases may, nevertheless, be widiin the i)ale of 

 perfect recovery. 



A large number which we arc called upon to treat 

 are cases of long standing, but yet not notoriously 

 lame horses. Some of these that may not admit of 

 a radical cuie, owing to the duiation of the disease 

 and consequently defective organization of (he joint, 



