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. 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
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. 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 opposite foot to relieve the lame onein standing or walking, there is liability to bring on the same. Fig. 691.—Position of bones of the foot too oblique. a. Pastern bone; h. Coronary bone; c. Os pedis, or coffin-bone; d. Usualseat of the lameness; e. Perforans tendon. trouble in the well one,—a not uncommon occurrence,—when thelameness will be equally marked in both fore-feet. The horse willgo worse when the heel is lowered by putting on a thin shoe, orby losing the shoe, and will go better when the heel is raised, andespecially so if the toe is rounded so as to aid mobility. Causes.—The coffin-joint is composed of three bones; viz., thelower or pedal bone, and the navicular and pastern bones. Byreferring to Figs. 865 and 392, in chapter on Shoeing, and , which were copied and engraved from photographs ofa manikin, and also from a natural foot, showing different viewsof the bones, ligaments, and tendons of the parts, a good idea 784 DISEASES AND THEIK TKEATMENT. can b
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