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W. J. MARTIN. 
imous resolutions inviting the National Association to come to 
Atlantic City, putting forth the advantages offered, the fact 
that New Jersey has never been honored by its presence, and 
that the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo will insure reduced 
transportation. 
The Veterinary Medical Association oe New Jer¬ 
sey is taking hold of the Army Bill in earnest, having ap¬ 
pointed a number of delegates in every congressional district to 
further its interests with the representatives. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
SPAVIN: ITS ETIOLOGY AND TREATMENT. 
By W. J. Martin, M. D. C., Kankakee, Ike. 
Read before the American Veterinary Medical Association, Sept. 5, 1900. 
Etymology of the Word Spavin. —Old French, Esparvain ; 
New French, Esparvin; Spanish, Esparavan; Italian, Spav- 
enio and Spavento. From Old French, Espervien ; Old High 
German, Sparwari , a sparrow hawk, so named from the pecul¬ 
iar gait of a horse lame from this disease, and which makes a 
horse lame from this disease raise the lame leg like a sparrow- 
hawk.— Webster's Dictionary and the Standard Dictionary. 
Definition. —Spavin is an inflammatory ostitis affecting the 
component structure of the bones and also of the ligamentous 
tissues that compose the equine tarsus, and which sooner or 
later (in the majority of cases at least) produces ossific ostosis 
and anchylosis of two or more bones of the articulation. This 
anchylosis may be partial or complete. The ostitis and accom¬ 
panying exostosis usually first appears at the inner angle of the 
cuneiform magnum and the articular facets of the parvum and 
the inferior surface of the scaphoid bones ; though quite fre¬ 
quently the disease involves the articulating surfaces of the 
scaphoid, inferior surface of the astragulus and cuboid bones. 
