. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : 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 .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). NAVICULAR-JOINT LAMENESS. 789 ary %ht driving on mud roads, but when subjected to such severe and continued concussion, they became a direct
. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : 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 .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). NAVICULAR-JOINT LAMENESS. 789 ary %ht driving on mud roads, but when subjected to such severe and continued concussion, they became a direct cause of irritation and disease. As a good illustration of this cause of danger, I copy the remarks of a very excellent author (White) on the danger of lowering the heels too suddenly and subject- ing them to severe strain: " It has appeared in a great num- ber of dissections of the feet of horses affected with chronic lameness, that the small bono of the foot, called navicular or nut-bone, is diseased either on the surface over which the great tendon of the foot passes, or on that which articulates with the smaU pastern and coffin ; In speaking of the cause, ho says: "I once knew an excellent trotting- horse that had won several matches. Thin-heeled shoes were put on his feet, but it was soon found that he could no longer trot; that when urged he would go into a can- ter. The shoes were therefore taken off, and a common shoe applied, but it was too late. He was no longer able to trot. caused by inflammation of the coffin-joint, or of the parts con- nected with it, in consequence of lowering the heels and throw- ing so much stress on the tendon and navicular ; In talking with an intelligent veterinary surgeon on this sub- ject, he referred to a case in his own practice that had strained the perforans tendon. The owner called him in to treat it, and by proper management soon relieved the lameness; but in conse- quence of the horse's being driven a
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