. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 452 2Pe ^vcjcder and ^ygrtsman. May 2 CONSTITUTES a SOUND HORSE? A Dissertation for Hereditary and Non- Inherent Diseases. A Good Idea. Who can answer? One authority has safd tint when ap- plied to horses "sonnd" me ins "; bnt this detinilioa has been overthrown, for there is scarcely a perfect horse in existence. The most skillful veterinary surgeon cannot manj times tell whether a horse is sound or not. Tne internal organs are hidden from view and symptoms of their affec- tion are not always clear and plain. Toe organs of res
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 452 2Pe ^vcjcder and ^ygrtsman. May 2 CONSTITUTES a SOUND HORSE? A Dissertation for Hereditary and Non- Inherent Diseases. A Good Idea. Who can answer? One authority has safd tint when ap- plied to horses "sonnd" me ins "; bnt this detinilioa has been overthrown, for there is scarcely a perfect horse in existence. The most skillful veterinary surgeon cannot manj times tell whether a horse is sound or not. Tne internal organs are hidden from view and symptoms of their affec- tion are not always clear and plain. Toe organs of respira- tion vary in different animals under different conditions; and any apparent abnormal respiration, for ins'ance, might in one case indicate disease and in another not. even though the apparent or real abnormal respirations were exactly alike. Similar undecisive conditions may prevail in the osseous anatomy. No two horses are alike in their 03seons develop- ments, hence arise those strange anomalies in limbs and joints about which experts are so prone to differ in opinion as to the presence or absence of disease. Tbe hocks, for in- stance, present such variety in conformation, and in some in- stances such unusoal development of bony structure, as to render a correct diagnosis a matter of: the greatest uncer- taintv. If the extraordinary osseous development is con- genital, then so far as this point is conoerned the animal is sonnd/ but otherwise not. Not knowing the animal from birth up, no one coull tell whether he were Bound or not. There are several different conformations of horses and gaits in travel that often inchoate unsoundness in eome re- spect when nooe exists. A certain construction of the ramp, when existing in an exaggerated form, imparts to the action behind the appearance of lameness in one hied limb when the horse goes from you and in the other when he ap- proaches. A slight inclination inward of ODe fore-foot con- veys the impression of lameness in the opp
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