THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXVIII, 
No. 328. 
APRIL, 1855. 
Fourth Series, 
No. 4. 
Communications and Cases. 
SESAMOIDITIS ; 
OR THE SEAT OF OBSCURE LEG-LAMENESS OF HORSES 
UNMASKED. 
By James Turner, M.R.C.V.S., Regent Street. 
( Continued from the e Veterinarian 9 of November, 1847.) 
Domestic troubles, in rather quick succession, during the 
last few years, have pressed somewhat heavily upon me, or 
certainly I should not have allowed the subject of so for- 
midable a malady as the above to have slumbered so long. 
Favoured by admission into your valuable columns, I am 
induced to renew the investigation from the following motives : 
Firstly, to redeem my promise to the profession generally. 
Secondly , because I flatter myself that it may render good 
service to the junior members of the profession when they 
find themselves launched into active practice, and thrown 
solely upon their own resources, in meeting the exigency of 
these cases. 
Let us assume that, in a case of obscure lameness, the 
seat of mischief shall be somewhere below the knee of the 
horse, and that the foot is not involved. The tyro’s first care 
will be to ascertain that the suspensory ligament is intact, 
also the main back sinew, together with its sheath, and that 
there is likewise an absence of ringbone, splint, and other 
exostoses, in the region of the coronet. At this stage of 
the examination (when perhaps narrowly watched by an un- 
friendly eye) great, indeed, would be the pity if cc Sesa- 
moiditis ” had never entered into the young man’s philosophy 
or his nosology. 
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