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MANUAL OF MODERN FARR I MY. 
plaint is first noticed when the horse is just taken oui 
of the stable. The animal lifts his leg high, suddenly 
elevating it towards his belly, and puts it to the ground 
with considerable force. Should both limbs be affected, 
then it gives the appearance as if the horse had very good 
and high action in his hind limbs, and many a purchaser 
has been deceived in consequence This shows the utility 
of all possessors of horses having a general knowledge of 
the complaints incidental to this useful animal. String- 
halt soon disappears after the horse has been heated a little, 
and it is no detriment to him after he has been warmed ; 
for we have seen and ridden some of the best of hunters 
which have had that affection, and which were first in at the 
death. 
We are not in possession of any means for the remedy ol 
this affection ; and although it is unpleasant to the rider 
upon first setting out, yet it is no positive detriment to the 
animal, nor is it reckoned unsoundness. Indeed the true 
nature of the affection is not known. By some it has been 
supposed to exist in the spinal marrow, and by others to be 
situated in the nerves supplying some of the muscles of 
the leg. 
BONE-SPAVIN. 
A bone-spavin is an increased growth of bony consistence 
situated on the lower and most prominent part of the inside 
of the hock-joint. (See plate 7, fig. 9, d.) A well-formed 
hock-ioint gradually tapers down so as to unite almost 
imperceptibly with the soft or fleshy parts. In examining 
a horse, the hand should be passed over the inside of the 
hock in a downward direction, when horses having this 
injury will be found to have a little prominence, near 
the lower point of the r>one This is an enlargement of 
