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 . FiG. 694.—Attachment of perforans tendon to bottom of pedal-bone. From manikin of the foot. NAVICULAE-JOIKT LAMENESS. 789 ary light driving on mud roads, but when subjected to suchsevere and continued concussion, they became a direct cause ofirritation and disease. As a
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 . FiG. 694.—Attachment of perforans tendon to bottom of pedal-bone. From manikin of the foot. NAVICULAE-JOIKT LAMENESS. 789 ary light driving on mud roads, but when subjected to suchsevere and continued concussion, they became a direct cause ofirritation and disease. As a good iUustration of this cause ofdanger, I copy the remarks of a very excellent author fWhite) onthe danger of lowering theheels too suddenly and subject-ing them to severe strain: Ithas appeared in a great num-ber of dissections of the feet ofhorses affected with chroniclameness, that the small boneof the foot, called navicular ornut-bone, is diseased either onthe surface over which thegreat tendon of the foot passes,or on that which articulateswith the small pastern andcoffin bones. In speaking ofthe cause, he says: I onceknew an excellent trotting-horse that had won severalmatches. Thin-heeled shoeswere put on his feet, but itwas soon found that he couldno longer trot; that whenurged he would go into a can-. FiG. 695.—Excellent view of perforanstendon. From photograph ofmanikin of the foot. And this, I have no doubt^ was ter. The shoes were thereforetaken off, and a common shoeapplied, but it was too was no longer able to trot,caused by inflammation of the coffin-joint, or of the paits con-nected with it, in consequence of lowering tlie heels and throw-ing so much stress on the tendon and navicular bone. In talking with an intelligent veterinary surgeon on this sub-ject, he referred to a case in his own practice that had strainedthe perforans tendon. The owner called him in to treat it, andby proper management soon relieved the lameness; but in conse-quence of t
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