140 EXAMINATION OF HORSES 
LECTURE XVII. 
Sallanders —Ring-bone—Sandcrack—Tuberosity of Ischium knocked 
off—Go over the off side like the near side, but look under the 
Mane for Poll-evil—Case—Time required for the whole of 
these Movements Five Minutes—Advised to Practise these 
Movements on a Sound Horse—The Third Part of the 
Examination—Testing for Lameness—Testing the ‘‘Wind”— 
How best accomplished, 
GENTLEMEN,—I trust that our survey of the hock and 
its defects and diseases—such as you would have to 
grapple with in an examination for soundness—has been 
sufficiently perfect to enable you to do justice to so 
important a part. 
We next proceed downwards in front of the leg, having 
looked for and not found “sallanders,” a skin disease 
affecting the skin in front of the hock that is creased 
during flexion of the joint. I have already spoken of 
its analogue, “‘ mallanders,” and the same remarks very 
well apply to both. We proceed just in the same way 
below the hock in front as below the knee in front, but 
expect to find any important disease, such as ring-bone 
and sandcrack, in fron¢ of the limb, as it is on the front 
of the limb that most pressure comes in its function of 
body propeller. 
