Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . Fig- 95-—Clean hock. Fig. 96.—Slight spavin. Fig. 97—Well-^^^^^l^ed^spavin. weight being put on the inside of the foot than on the to the fact that the grooves on the bones (tibia and astraga-lus) which form the true hock joint are directed obliquely outwardsas well as forwards, the toe of a hind foot is rotated slightly in-wards, when the limb is straightened out to the rear, w^hile thefoot is on the ground. The occasional occurrence of bony en-largements on the outside of the hock (p. 2^5), shows that
Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . Fig- 95-—Clean hock. Fig. 96.—Slight spavin. Fig. 97—Well-^^^^^l^ed^spavin. weight being put on the inside of the foot than on the to the fact that the grooves on the bones (tibia and astraga-lus) which form the true hock joint are directed obliquely outwardsas well as forwards, the toe of a hind foot is rotated slightly in-wards, when the limb is straightened out to the rear, w^hile thefoot is on the ground. The occasional occurrence of bony en-largements on the outside of the hock (p. 2^5), shows that excessof strain is not always confined to the inside of that joint. COMPARATIVE GRAVITY OF justly laysstress on the fact that horses should not be condemned indis-criminately on account of having a so-called low spavin, which,he contends, is in many cases a veritable splint, and has no con- 256 DISEASES OF BONE. nection with the small bones of the hock, which are above thecannon bone and splint bones. 1 believe that a splint, having the appearance
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