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Case 5.—A horse sound in every other respect is. 
brought to you; you find him aged, wearing leather 
soles, has been newly shod, his feet neatly rasped, has 
rather upright short pasterns, and has the slightest touch. 
of hypertrophy of both fetlock joints, frogs half atrophied, ; 
but no corns. 1 
CasE 6.—A horse sound in every other respect has/ 
long, very oblique pasterns, long toes, low heels, has 
marks of speedy-cut on both heels, has flat feet, and 
brittle, as shown by their being chipped, and has a vEM, 
small hypertrophy of one fetlock joint. 5 
In these cases you are supposed to have to say’ 
whether the horse is or is not sound. Could you give 
an opinion at once, without having any doubt, in any. 
one of these cases? I don’t think you could; and 
yet I might have multiplied these cases a hundredfold : 
and still not have given you examples of a tenth part. ’ 
_ They are practically unlimited, and the only satisfac 
tory method of dealing with so wide a subject will be 
for us (1) to go over each departure from the normal 
one by one, and (2) to enumerate and discuss the 
more common combinations. With this method in 
view I will now proceed to place before you the fol- 
lowing classification :— 
I. ANOMALIES OF SIZE: 
1. Feet too small. . 3. Feet unequal in size. 
2: 4, 4, large. 4. Frogs atrophied. 
5. Frogs large, “ fleshy.” 
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