. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). 806 DISEASES AND THEIE TREATMENT. side of the extremity of the bone, and one similar in liind, but less extensive, exists on the retrorsal m
. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). 806 DISEASES AND THEIE TREATMENT. side of the extremity of the bone, and one similar in liind, but less extensive, exists on the retrorsal margin on the other side. Apart from the lesions of hoof, soft structures, cartilage, and bone, atrophy of the coffin and navicular bones, with deep excavation of the latter, existed to the same extent in both fore feet. The termination of this case was extraordinary in its occurrence, and more than justifies, it seems, a short digression froni my sub- ject; the termination was by sudden death. The incident which I am about to narrate happened nine years ago. While in the per- formance of my duty at the Edinburgh New Veterinary College, I was called in haste by a groom to attend a horse that had acci- dentally fallen in a street close by. I accompanied the man in-. stantly, and when we reached the stable found the horse lying quite dead; onl^' a few minutes had elapsed from the time the groom left the horse standing in his stall, and only about twenty minutes from the time the horse fell. The immediate occurrence, as related by the man, happened thus: The horse, hune on both fore feet, was being ridden by the groom, who was returning to the stable with a sackful of forage placed before him on the horse's back. The ani- mal, so encumbered, was being trotted on the pavement of a narrow street, and tbe way he was going was on a decline. The horse stunibled, and after making efforts to recover himself, fell, pitching the man and sack over his head. The man escaped injury, but the ho
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