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SIXTH PAPER. 



MORBID PHENOMENA CONNECTED WITH CHRONIC 

 LAMENESS OF THE FEET OF HORSES, WHICH ARE NOT 

 CONTAINED IN THE DETAILS OF ANY WRITER ON 

 THE FOOT. 



[Read at the Veterinary Medical Society, December, 1831.] 



Gentlemen, 



On the last occasion, when I tried to substan- 

 tiate my opinion by the production of diseased spe- 

 cimens, and contrasted them with healthy ones, I 

 only asked you to agree with me in the existence 

 of a 7norhid elevation of the navicular bone and 

 heels of the coffin bone ivithin the hoof, as an ac- 

 companiment to navicular lameness ; but the spe- 

 cimens I am now about to produce are so conclu- 

 sive, so incontrovertible, that I would assert, no 

 rational man will deny the presence of both these 

 facts, with a third, of equal importance, in addition. 



It is an old adage, "that, when the truth is at 

 hand, all circumstances concur to establish it." 

 Now, the concurring testimony that I have to offer 

 (and which I think, when proved, must of neces- 

 sity form a section of every future work on the 

 diseases of the foot) consists in the expulsion or Elevated posi- 



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displacement of the small pastern hone from the partem bone. 



