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such as you will frequently have to decide upon. Let 
us take six cases, of minor combinations, but quite sound 
in every other respect. 
Casr 1.—A gentleman asks you to examine a six- 
year-old carriage gelding in hard working condition. 
The horse has been in regular work. You find his knees 
tremble just a very /ittle when he comes to stand; his 
feet are just a shade warmer than common; he has soles 
not too flat, but zzclimed to be flat; and he is shod with 
shoes having a little more cover than common, and with 
a shade more iron in them. 
CasE 2.—A seven-year-old carriage gelding is sent for 
your examination. You find him sound in every other 
respect, but you find him “ leggy,’’ flatsided, wearing 
“ calkined ” fore shoes, shreddy half-atrophied frogs, with 
no discharge (thrush), but the bottom of the cleft of the 
frog has a white appearance. 
‘ CasE 3.—A horse, sound in every other respect, is 
brought to you. You find him five years old ; fore feet 
small; lateral cartilages less yielding than common, but 
yet not at all ossified; toes turned a little in, and the 
least possible hypertrophy on the top of one hoof on the 
outside, and the part of the shoe immediately under this 
hypertrophy a little more worn than is common in this 
situation. 
Case 4.—A carriage horse, sound in every other re- 
spect, has fore feet of unequal size, and the wall of the 
smaller foot is dry and brittle, yet so far there is plenty of 
wall to nail to, and no undue heat. 
