The art of taming and educating the horse : 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, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . iscovered in the foot,the lameness is supposed to be in theshoulder. Now there is no lameness thatreveals itself more plainly than shoulderlameness; because when the muscles ofthe shoulder or arm are strained or in-jured, the mobility is so seriously im-paired that the
The art of taming and educating the horse : 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, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . iscovered in the foot,the lameness is supposed to be in theshoulder. Now there is no lameness thatreveals itself more plainly than shoulderlameness; because when the muscles ofthe shoulder or arm are strained or in-jured, the mobility is so seriously im-paired that the limb is lifted and broughtforward with a sort of dragging is easy to see if a man were to inj ure his shoulder or arm, thatwith the greatest cflbrt he would be scarcely able to lift it to put onhis coat. But were the trouble in his hand, or below the elbow, hecould do it without the least difficulty. The effect is the sameupon the horse. By moving him back and forward, if the troubleis in the foot, or below the knee, the foot will be raised and car-ried forward naturally, but put down tenderly, as if trying toprotect it from the force of concussion; whereas, if in the shoulder,as explained, the mobility of the limb is greatly unpaired, whichis shown by the difficulty with which it is raised and Fig. 690.—Posterior view ofbones of the foot. NAVICULAE-JOINT LAMENESS. 78S I would call particular attention to these symptoms, from thefact that after an examination by persons who do not under-stand the nature of the difficulty, and finding no apparent troublein the foot, the conclusion is arrived at that it must be in theshoulder, which is treated with liniments, blistering, etc., as ex-plained, without doing any good, not only punishing the horse un-necessarily, but occasioning a loss of valuable time. I would also remind, in this connection, that when the lame-ness continues in one foot for some time, on account of throwingthe weight so much upon the op
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