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deeply seated for external stimulants to have very great eflect, 

 yet a blister will properly be resorted to, if the lameness is not 

 speedily removed.* 



SLANTING DIRECTION OF THE SHOULDER. 



It will be observed, that (see G and J, Fig. 1 .) the shoulder-blade 

 and the lower bone of the shoulder are not connected together in 

 a straight line, but form a very considerable angle with each 

 other. This will be more evident from the following cut, which 

 represents the fore and hind extremities in the situations which 

 they occupy in the horse. 



Fig. 83. 



This angular construction of the limbs reminds us of the 

 similar arrangement of the springs of a carriage, and the ease of 

 motion, and almost perfect freedom from jolting, which art 

 thereby obtained. 



* Note by Mr. Spooner. — The symptoms of aboulder lameness as pointed 

 out in the text, are for the most part correct. A horse, however, never points 

 in this disease, but wiU sometimes keep the lame limb further back than the 

 other. The pain is almost entirely felt in motion, and not in sustaining the 

 weight ; whilat, in strains of the flexor tendons, there is no pain in extending 

 the limb, but only when the weight comes upon it ; so that a horse, in the 

 latter case, steps short with the sound leg and long with the lame one, and 

 the very revei-se in shoulder lameness. Bleeding from the arm, and mildly 

 blistering the shoulder, generally succeeds in effecting a cure. 



