“AS TO SOUNDNESS. ai 
LECTURE XV. 
SPAVIN (continuea). 
GENTLEMEN,—It is to be sincerely hoped that you give 
the subject of each lecture room in your already much ’ 
occupied thoughts after leaving this theatre. If you 
have done so with regard to the subject of our last dis- © 
course, I venture to assert that you will have concluded 
that if. “concussion” were the cause of spavin—I mean 
the concussion produced when the horse puts his foot to 
the ground—then the s¢tvazght hock, and not the dent 
one, ought to be the more frequent subject of spavin. 
Now this is not so, as any judge of “horse flesh”’ will 
tell you. It is your bent hock that is alike the most 
frequent subject of spavin and of curb—the hock that 
can be extremely flexed. 
We come next to the important question—what 
spavins lame horses? This to some of you may seem 
an absurd question. Most horsemen think that a// 
spavins lame horses. And yet they do not, as all veteri- 
-narians and all really good judges of horses will tell you. 
We know, for a certainty, that it is the spavin that is 
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