106 EXAMINATION OF HORSES 
LECTURE XIV. 
- Fractured Ribs—Hernia—Down in the Hip or Fractured Ilium— 
The Stifle Joint—The Tibia—Fracture of Tibia—The Hocks 
—Curbs in Human Beings— Mechanism of the Hocks—Goarse, 
Hocks—Spavin. 
GENTLEMEN,—Having now finished the “fore hand” we 
pass along the trunk to the hind limb. 
The walls of the chest are usually free from disease, 
but occasionally we find evidences of broken ribs. Some 
shoeing smiths have a vicious habit of striking a horse 
with a hammer with which they are nailing on the shoe 
when he happens to be restless during the process. 
Should a rib have been fractured and have healed, well 
and good, the only evidence remaining will most likely 
be an enlargement on the rib which is of little conse- 
quence if the injury is of old standing. It sometimes 
happens, however, that you have disease of the rib remain- 
ing, and a discharging sinus leading to it, which is rather 
serious, inasmuch as remedial measures may have to be 
adopted that will endanger the horse’s life, or at least 
that will lay him off work. 
Herniz are the next things you look for. We frequently 
