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 . ation pro-duced in the foot, there would be ulceration of the coronet andloss of the hoof, making the destruction of the horse led to the operation being brought into great disrepute andsuspicion. It is, of course, advisable in all cases to have a compet
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 . ation pro-duced in the foot, there would be ulceration of the coronet andloss of the hoof, making the destruction of the horse led to the operation being brought into great disrepute andsuspicion. It is, of course, advisable in all cases to have a competentveterinary surgeon employed, if available, to perform this opera-tion . PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF FEET. 803 Description of Some of the Pathological Conditions ofHorses Feet, Commonly Present in the VariousStages of Chronic Lameness.* The morbid specimens selected for the drawings which illus-trate this section of my Avork. comprise some of the most impor-tant conditions commonly met with in lame horses, the occurrenceof which it is my object to prevent and remedy. The chronic anomalous conditions of horses feet, entailing lame-ness of more or less acute degree, present two quite opposite ap-pearances to our view; the one a wasting and the other an e?i-grossment of structures, the textures of the parts affected being. Fig. 704. in both instances greatly changed. In describing these conditions,I shall laake use of the appropriate short terms,—Atrophy andHypertrophy. Fig. 704 represents a transverse section of the hoof of a fore footof an aged cart-horse, in which the sole had become flattened, and atsome points had even passed the plane, and assumed the convex, incontrast to the normal concave form of surface. Fig. 705 represents tlie coflin-bone of the same foot, as thatof the hoof described, and shows how exactly the outhne and sur-faces of one accord with those of the other, which characteristicsare made more manifest when the parts are handled. It is truethat these surf
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