“Meee” 
SKETCH OF THE HORSE. 
Principal Points and Parts to be Examined for Defects, Injuries and Disease, 
1. Muzzle. 
Place of Fistula from Teeth. 
Place of Mumps. 
Place of Poll-evil. 
. Angle of Jaw. 
6, 6. Crest. 
G Place of Fistula from Vein. 
. Throttle, Thropple, or Wind- 
pipe. 
g. Shoulder-point: place of 
Sores from Flarness. 
10, 10. Shoulder-blade. 
11. Withers; sometimes the seat 
of Fistula: height of horses 
reckoned from the ground to 
the Withers. 
12. Front of Chest or Breast. 
13,13. The True Arm. 
14. Elbow; sometimes the seat 
of Tumors, 
15 Arm, or Fore-arm. 
16. Knee, or Wrist; sometimes 
swelled, having a fungous 
owth; or the skin may have 
een broken, 
17,17. Back Sinew: place of 
Curb. 
18. Place of Disease of Skin 
above the Coronet—Crown 
scab, 
19, 19. Fetlock, or Pastern- joint. 
20. Coronet. 
21,21. Heel. 
22. Contracted Hoof. 
24. Mallenders; 24a, Sallenders. 
25. Seat of Splint, or Exostosis, 
on side of Cannon-bone. 
26, 26, 26. Seats of Bursal En 
largements. 
2K Back, or spine. 
. Place of Saddle-galis, 
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29. Girth, or Circumference 
in Measurement. 
Place of Injury from Pres- 
sure of Girth. 
Barrel, or Middle-piece. 
Loins. 
Seat of Warts. 
Sheath, or Prepuce. 
38. Gas-skin, or Lower Thigh. 
Root of the Dock, or Tail. 
Hip-joint—Round or Whirl- 
bone. 
Rat tail. 
The Quarters. 
Point of the Hock: 
Capped -hock. 
seat of 
44,44. Cannon-bone. 
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Place of Spavin, 
46. Hoof, 
