VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XX, No. 231. MARCH 1847. New Series, No. 63. 
LAMENESS IN HORSES. 
By William Percivall, M.R.C.S. and V.S. 
[Continued from p. 68.] 
NAVICULARTHRITIS. 
NO class of persons feel the inconvenience of a defective nomen- 
clature, in any branch of science or art on which they may be 
engaged, more than writers and lecturers. In titles and names in 
particular, the obligation to use two or more words to express that 
which admits of having its signification expressed equally well by 
one, is a tax they are continually paying ; until at length the repe- 
tition of the periphrasis becomes so tiresome, that they begin to 
bethink themselves if they cannot devise some substitute for it in 
the shape of a single word. It is this consideration, coupled with 
the one that really it is disreputable to our profession not before now 
to have had an appropriate name for the disease I am about to treat 
on, that has induced me to offer for acceptation the one superscribed. 
NAVICULARTHRITIS — a compound of the radical words N or navis 
or navicula, Ap6§o*, and itis — literally signifying NAVICULAR- joint- 
INFLAMMATION — is, to my mind, the term we have long wanted. 
Naviculitis means but navicular-inflammation, and therefore is 
indefinite in its signification. 
Dr. Brauel, Professor at the University of Cazan, whose ad- 
mirable Essay has recently been translated and inserted in The 
Veterinarian, calls the disease Podotrocholitis ; and a very 
significant and appropriate appellation this is — classically derived, 
as it is, from *rous, a foot, and rpo^o?, a pulley — an appellation only 
inferior in my mind, for our use at least, to navicularthritis, from 
the circumstance of one being so much more familiar to our ears 
and tongues than the other. 
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