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 . Fig. 718. both subjects is alike unknown; the specimens were obtained at theplace of slaughter, to which the lame horses were taken at Edin-burgh, and the dissections and observations were carefully carriedon by me, and much time was devoted to the work. The causeand or
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 . Fig. 718. both subjects is alike unknown; the specimens were obtained at theplace of slaughter, to which the lame horses were taken at Edin-burgh, and the dissections and observations were carefully carriedon by me, and much time was devoted to the work. The causeand origin of the disease in this instance differed from those of theformer, and so, in the sequence and termination, obvious differencesin external appearances and conditions were observable. The original and essential scat of disease in the case representedby Fig. 717 was caries of the pyramidal process of the coffin-bone,Avhich the drawing admirably shows; the foot represented is thenear one, and an enlargement and deep excavation of the bone isseen in the lateral aspect of that projection. The disease had beenof very long standing, as all the changes the foot had undergone 814 DISEASES AND THEIll testify. The front of the Ioavi;]- surface of the coffin-bone, uponwhich aloiio the limb rested, hud become absorbed, the object beingto constitute a straight column, since the parts were incapable of performing any of themotive functions of thehealth} foot, for leverageetfect. The hoof necessa-rily took the vertical linoof forjn Avith the Avholeregion—the heels weredee]). All bearing wasconveyed to the point atwhich part the shoe wasworn, proving that the an-imal had been worked tothe last in the state inwhich the foot was foundafter death, there beingno signs of recent changein the case, nor any meansof relief having been re-sorted to. This figure. No. 718, insome of its phases, is arepetition of the last (notincluded because not ofsufficient interest to be desirable), fo
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