124 | EXAMINATION OF HORSES 
The senses of the two sides of your body are always, at 
best, a little dissimilar. No physician would attach much 
weight to your opinion if he caught you comparing the 
respiratory murmurs of the two sides of the chest, one 
side with one ear, the other side with the other ear. No.- 
Compare the spavin place of the two hocks always by 
the ¢owch, but let it be by the same touch. Recollect, of 
course, that it is the small spavin you have need to do 
this in the case of—not in the case of the spavin on 
which you can hang your hat. And you will find that it 
is the small, just perceptible spavin, which lames a horse. 
The spavin that is forming. In comparing the two spavin 
places use a gentle touch, and at once pass your same 
touch to the opposite spavin place. By the same touch 
I not only mean the same part of your person, but let 
it be from the index ¢o the middle finger in each case. 
I saw one of you the other day trying to accomplish 4 
tremendous physiological feat. He felt the right hock 
very properly with the fingers I have named of his right 
hand, and then zent round to the other side of the horse 
and felt the other hock with his other hand. This at 
once led me to the conclusion that he and’ Kirke 
-were not boon companions. The larger spavins can, of 
course, be quite well seen, and we frequently do see them 
the first thing, but in the all-important spavins, the very 
small spavins situated far forward, never trust to your 
sense of sight, as the very least deviation in the aspect of 
the two limbs you are comparing will lead you wrong. 
The wearing away of the toe of the shoe is also a mis- 
