288 SPAVIN. 
its feelings are sensitive to gentleness. The one is often injured, and 
the others are frequently vitiated by the master it too literally obeys. 
Spavin and splint both are the change of ligamentous structure into 
bone: spavin occurs at the inner and lower part of the hock; splint 
also may be sometimes found at the same part of the knee. The name 
splint is likewise applied to any bony enlargement upon 
the shins or below the hocks and the knees. 
Splints in the fore leg are mostly seen on the inner side. 
On the hind limb, however, such growths principally 
favor the outer side. The advent of splint, when near 
the knee, is generally accounted for by saying the inner 
' side of the joint lies more under the center of gravity, 
PEN Neste Hae and, therefore, is the more exposed to injury. Such an 
cee aN interpretation, however, leaves the preference for the outer 
eee pat of locality—when splints are witnessed on the hind leg— 
unexplained. Perhaps the reader will—after having con- 
templated the two following engravings, and subsequent to having 
observed that the artery of the hinder limb crosses the inferior part of 
the hock, to take its course down the outer side of the leg, while in 
the fore extremity the vessel continues along the inner side of the shin- 
rae inside OF THE FORE LEG, SHOWING THE THE outside OF THE HIND LEG, DISPLAYING 
VESSELS PROPER TO THAT PART OF THE THE VESSELS NATURAL TO THAT PART OF 
LIMB GENERALLY AFFECTED BY OSSEOU8 THE LIMB WHICH IS COMMONLY THE SEAT 
DEPOSITS. OF OSSEOUS DEPOSITS. 
bone—conclude with the author that, in splint, the distribution of the 
blood is more to be regarded than the weight, which, originally conveyed 
through a ball-and-socket joint, can hardly afterward affect one part to 
the release of the rest. 
Having explained the peculiarity attending some bony tumors on the 
