ELEMENTS OF HIPPOLOGY. 



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If they are soft to the pressure of the finger, and cool, they are 

 little more than blemishes; if they are soft and hot, indicating 

 inflammation, they are the result of a strain to one of the ten- 

 dons; if hard and inflamed, they result from some injury to the 



bone or its 

 covering . 

 Both of these 

 two latter con- 

 ditions are 

 serious and 

 demand a t - 

 tention. 



Under the 

 back part of 

 the fetlock is a 

 horny growth, 

 called the 

 ergot. It 

 seems, like 

 the other hor- 

 n y gi-owth 

 higher up on 

 the inside of 

 the ' radius, 

 call e d the 

 chestnut 

 (Figure 7 2), 

 to be of no 

 functionalval- 

 ue. Any bony 

 deposit upon 

 the pastern 

 bones is termed a ringbone. If the deposit is above the joint 

 between the two pastern-bones, it is a high ringbone. This 



Figure 63. — Wind-Galls. 



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