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practised eye, and by this only with care and attention. 
Frequently we find a horse with this disease coming out of 
his stable stiff and crambly, and after he has gone awhile 
he will go sound. If you suspect him to have groggy 
lameness of an obscure nature, do as the late Professor 
Dick used to do. He would have the horse stabled and 
have him brought out at intervals throughout a whole 
day. This of course was when he had either seen 
symptoms of lameness or thought he had. Prolonged 
rest ina loose box has sometimes a wonderful remedial 
effect in the more chronic forms. .When this is so, I 
suspect the disease is in one of two conditions: it is 
either at the very beginning of the disease, before patho- 
logical changes have far advanced; or there are adhesions, 
or a state suitable for adhesions, between the ulcerated 
navicular bone and the ulcerated flexon tendon, the rest 
allowing these adhesions to organise and attain resisting 
power. Of course this is a mere guess, but you can take 
it for what it is worth. But what I wish to impress upon 
you is that you may have to all appearance a sound 
horse who all the time has navicular disease, and you 
are therefore to take means for discovering it. Have 
the horse warmed with exercise and taken straight into a 
stable, and let him stand wrong end first in his stall 
secured by pillar reins, and leave the stable door open. 
You can watch him and see if he “ points,” then in half 
an hour or so have him quietly led out of the stable and 
notice his shoulders and pasterns. If he has any navicular 
disease at all, no matter whether he has been cured by 
