102° «EXAMINATION OF HORSES 
oblique pasterns. Increased functional requirements ‘in 
giving rise to hypertrophy usually stop short of inflamma- 
tion, but when they do not, of course lameness results. 
When you have no lameness, but have extreme hyper- 
trophy, which is on the verge of inflammation, you will 
do well to reject such a one as unsound, and leave the 
onus of proving that there is only hypertrophy and no 
inflammation to others. You can scarcely call a house a 
sound house whose end wall is bulging, and has to have 
a wooden stay to prop it up. 
Next, slide your left fore-finger and thumb down the 
cannon bone and feel for splints. Splints most often occur 
on the inside, but are found on the outside, or scattered 
over the bone indefinitely. They are— 
Of two kinds. 
. Variously situated. ' 
. Varied in size. 
Recent. 
Old. 
. Single. . 
Multiple. 
. May interfere with the functions of 
other parts. 
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Splints are of two kinds, the first kind being due to 
uritation of the cartilage between the large and small 
metacarpal bones at a time when this cartilage is being 
converted into bone. The second kind is periosteal 
entirely, and due to excitation of the periosteum, which 
