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 . d the ])laee Avhere he was, inAyrshire. With the splendid carcasslying extended before me, I made in-quiries into the history of the case, andafter receiving tlie necessary replies formy i)urpose, and obtaining permissionto bring aAvay the feet of the animal,1 removed t
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 . d the ])laee Avhere he was, inAyrshire. With the splendid carcasslying extended before me, I made in-quiries into the history of the case, andafter receiving tlie necessary replies formy i)urpose, and obtaining permissionto bring aAvay the feet of the animal,1 removed them and returned Aviththem to Edinburgh. The disease from which the horse had suf-leied Avas inflammation of the feet, and death ensued throughlong-continued ii-ritant fever, ending in a blood-contaminatedsystem. Fig. 728 is that of the inner half of the hoof of the off fore foot;the section, made longitudinally, passes through the middle of thefrog, sole, and Avail. The bulging down of the sole and its thinstate are apparent; the Avhite spot represents an opening throughAvhich an excrescence of the inflamed texture jjrotruded. Fig. 729 represents the coffin and navicular bones, upon thelatter of Avhich no further remarks are necessary than to state thatthat bone Avas found in perfect health. 33ut to the coffin-bone and. Fig. 728. PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF FEET. 825 hoof together 1 must devote myself, with the view to make intel-ligible what 1 have to state. 1 must premise my description of the case by stating that allfour of this horses feet were alike affected, and almost in the samedegree, the ravages sustained by the two fore feet somewhat pre-ponderating. 3Iy information obtained on the origin of the diseaserecompensed the journe} to Ayrshire; I learned that one hind footwas first affected; a -fissure appeared in the front of the hoof,always a painful affection until the cause is removed, and a cureeffected. Lame of one hind foot, and all the hoofs in a weak state,inflamm
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