AS TO SOUNDNESS. 79 
We now come to the last of our subdivisions, which 
contains six. They are— 
1. Commonly met with. 
2. All concealed (more or less). 
3. All unsoundnesses. 
Coms are among the Jast things you look for at an 
examination, because in order to make sure of finding 
them you must remove the fore shoes and have the corn 
places carefully pared out. Removing the fore shoes is 
deferred to the last by -all veterinarians for obvious 
reasons. You will constantly meet with those who do 
not remove the shoes in searching for corns at an 
examination as to soundness. This, however,.is un- 
pardonable in all cases where you have an opportunity. 
Extremely bad corns can quite easily be detected with a 
searcher without removing the shoe, but then such dis- 
cover themselves also by causing lameness. It is the 
slight corns for which you are looking, quite as much as 
for the more aggravated ; and, in order to find them, you 
will have to have the heel pared out thoroughly. You 
must remember that the extravasated blood constituting 
a slight corn is not embedded in the crumbly exfoliating 
material that the knife first cuts through, but is embedded 
in the /évimg horn beneath, so that you will have to clear 
away all this déé7is thoroughly before you will find a 
small corn. All corns are very properly regarded as 
unsoundnesses ; because, if they do not already lame the 
horse, the feet require more than ordinary skill on the 
