. Diseases & disorders of the horse : a treatise on equine medicine and surgery. Horses; Horses -- Diseases; Horse Diseases. 164 many of the other diseases of the foot, of which we have ah-eady spoken, on the violent and continued concussion on the hard roads. The heavy weight of the animal, and the shoeing with high heels or calkins, are additional factors in the causation. High calkins deprive the foot of the uses which the frog serves as a buffer, and the concussion, received at every step by the heels, is thus directly transmitted to the cartilages, which suffer in consequence. The pre
. Diseases & disorders of the horse : a treatise on equine medicine and surgery. Horses; Horses -- Diseases; Horse Diseases. 164 many of the other diseases of the foot, of which we have ah-eady spoken, on the violent and continued concussion on the hard roads. The heavy weight of the animal, and the shoeing with high heels or calkins, are additional factors in the causation. High calkins deprive the foot of the uses which the frog serves as a buffer, and the concussion, received at every step by the heels, is thus directly transmitted to the cartilages, which suffer in consequence. The pressure on the heels is, moreover, greater than it would otherwise be, were high calkins dispensed with. Again, the sensitive frog is pressed downwards, by this practice of using high calkins, and the horny covering, being elevated from the ground, does not afford the support it otherwise would do. As in so many other diseases of man and animals hereditary influence also, no doubt, predisposes very strongly to the contraction of this form of bony degeneration. The practical conclusion to be drawn from this fact is, that one should not breed from animals sO' affected. The formation of a side-bone is often spread over a long period of time. When met with in aged cart-horses, whose progression is often thereby not much affected, they are not of any great moment. When, however, they are met with in the lighter breeds of horses, whether they cause lameness or not, and when they affect the gait of the cart horse, they are of much more importance. Now, although side-bone constitutes unsoundness, it is not necessary, or even advisable, to condemn an animal as unsound, unless the progression be affected thereby. Side-bone is in most instances accompanied. Pedal bone of the horse, showing the ossification of the lateral. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustratio
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