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ELEMENTS OF HIPPOLOGY. 



before the bony deposit begins, results in bone spavin. Its usual 

 seat is shown opposite the upper turn of the letter S in the 

 word "seat," Figure 78. 



The usual treatment of a spavin, after the bony deposit 

 has fairly begun, is to stimulate the deposit by artificial inflam- 

 mation until 

 the lowest 

 b n es are 

 united to the 

 cannon-bone; 

 then to stop 

 the inflamma- 

 tion. Such a 

 spavin is said 

 to be ''cured," 

 but it has 

 been cured at 

 the expense 

 of the joint, 

 which has 

 been perman- 

 ently destroy- 

 ed. When the 

 spavin occurs 

 between the 

 bones , no 

 visible en- Figure 78. 



largement results at first, but distressing lameness, due to ulcer- 

 ation of the cartilage, is caused, that is very difficult to locate. 

 This is an occult spavin. 



A spavined horse goes truer after being warmed up. 

 If, after a sharp gallop, in which he travels true, he is allowed 

 to stand for thirty minutes, and then sharply galloped, he will. 



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