THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XX, No. 237. SEPTEMBER 1847. New Series, No. 69. 
LAMENESS IN HORSES. 
By William Percivall, M.R.C.S . and V.S. 
[Continued from p. 372.] 
Permanent Navicul arthritic Lameness. 
PERMANENT Lameness of the affected foot is the result to 
be anticipated from such relapses, and this may be expected to 
set in at a period more or less remote according as circumstances 
prove favourable or otherwise ; relapse following relapse at inter- 
vals, long or short, as the case may be, until, in the end, such 
morbid changes take place in the diseased foot as render restora- 
tion of normal function and feeling impracticable, and the conse- 
quence is irremoveable lameness. And such will too frequently 
happen even under every advantage of treatment and repose. 
When, however, neither rest nor remedial treatment are had re- 
course to, but, on the contrary, the horse, lame as he is, is worked 
on, permanent lameness, of course, will become established at a 
much earlier period : nor will the case experience any decided 
remission of lameness ; though, in general, a good deal more lame- 
ness, even by such a case, will be shewn at one time than at 
another, owing to attendant circumstances, such as work, rest, 
shoeing, dryness or humidity of hoof, &c. A lame horse, thus 
neglected or abused, will commonly come before us with marked 
symptoms of the inveteracy and irremediableness of his ailment. 
From continual uneasiness or actual pain in it, he is in the con- 
stant habit of pointing the lame foot; and this removal of the weight 
off the foot while standing, combined with the little impress of 
weight upon it during action, in the course of time, becomes the 
indirect cause of certain physical alterations in the external foot, 
independent of any of another kind that may be going on in its 
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