50 EXAMINATION OF HORSES 
LECTURE VII. 
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The Fore Foot (continued)— Horse Examination very Difficult : Why; 
Cases as Examples—A Classification: I. Anomalies of Siz 
II. Anomalies of Shape; III. Anomalies of Position# 
IV. Injuries; WV. Diseases—Feet compared with each other, 
and with the Horse’s Bulk—Too Large Feet—Feet too Small, 
Signs of previous Fever in the Feet—Test for a previous Inflam- 
mation in the Feet—Frogs Atrophied—Frogs too Large. 
GENTLEMEN,—It occurs to me that the last lecture and 
the present one will give you some idea of the great diffi 
culty of the task of any one, I don’t mind how wide his 
experience may be, who undertakes to examine a horse 
as to soundness. The points you have to look to at 
this stage are so numerous that we cannot do better than 
classify them first, and then go over them in detail, but 
not necessarily one by one, because you will find thaf 
there occur endless combinations. These combinations 
are often extremely embarrassing, for whilst the least 
experienced can at once give an opinion and have no 
doubt in his mind upon well-marked cases of disease— 
such as corn, sand-crack, and so on—we find the most 
experienced sometimes at a loss when eeinbinaiions of 
minor defects are met with. Let us suppose a few cases 
