New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-20

complete rlbg round the loot IL produces the same
lsmeness, and lie equally incurabe. 1t is common to
both fore and hind feet although far moro frequent
before. Il easily be detected by the hand passed
carefully over the part. OF navicular disease and
other deep-eated lamenesses there are no exterior
sgns, and, if the animal do not go lame, they are
undi-eoverable and beyond suspicion; it needs not
therefore, alude to them. Clean legs are those free
from all pents, bony e1crescences and protuberances
the effect of accident or knocking about Fresh legs
are those in which there windgaIs or puffy ex-
crescerces of the skin but in which the bones news
yamens and cutice are all in their normal and proper
condition.
In the hind legs the join, mos, to be looked to is the
hook and the aimen most to be dreaded the SPAWN
The SPAWN is either bone, blood or bog all equally
producing desperate and dangerous lameness but the
first curable the two last utterly incurabe The first
is bony Of the inward and lower anterior
portion of the hook joint. 1t is dscovsrable by the
eye, looking from before backward or by the hand
1t sometimes produces total lameness; sometimes
severe lameness on first starting which passes
entirely away as soon as the animal gets warm
to his work and sometimes, though rarely exists
without producing any smeness at all. 1t is some.
times durable by firing and bistering; sometimes
utterly ncurable. 1t is always absolute cause for
not purchasing any horse but not always an absolute
cause for selling otherwise G. horse. We once
drove gray grandson of Messenger for five years,
who had very large bone SPAWN in the very worst
place. He invariably took his three first steps from
onary position, however momentary the duration
OF tie time be had been at rest like deadame horse
but then went sound any horse in the world until
lie again stood still. No day too long for him,
was every day in month too often. But, after ALL
II
Their
Bog SPAWN is the eytravasaton of the synovia fluid
which ubicaes the Joint, and its collection in sac
in the inward and lower anterior portion of the hook
JOINT, somewhat within and before the point at which
the lone SPAWN occurs. 1t may be seen partially in
profile but be felt readily by pressure of the hand,
under which it fuctuaes Blood SPAWN is similar
exravasation of artera blood and formation nearly in
the same place Of sort of aneurisma sac. 1t is de-.
tected as before and may be distinguished from the
bog spawn by the fact that it pulsates. Both these
spavins are incurable under any ordinary treatment
the former absolutely II is possible that tying the
artery might reduce the latter but We not aware
that the operation has ever been tried Thoroughpin
is similar extravasation of the synovia fluid, and
the formation Of sac, running between
the bones of the hook joint, not from
the front backward but across the joint, from side to
side 1t can be easily detected by the fingers, under
the pressure Of which the fluid be felt to ebb and
flow from tide to side. Thoroughpin like the kindred
spavns is ncurabe. 1t is needless to say that every
horse with determined BONE bog blood spawn, or
with thoroughpiD, must be summarily rejected; but
not needless to say that every one with any tendency
to irregular bOny enlargement, or to pufiness in the
places indicated, should be peremptorily refused as
something more than suspicious. These are the points
which it is most necessary for the purchaser to look to-
STILL even if he be really good amateur judge of
horse he will be wise not to buy except of person
of whom he knows somethng-not to buy without a
guaranty of soundness; and above ALL not without the
opinion of reputable veterinary surgeon, whom he
knos TO have interest in the sale friendship with
the seller. Even so, he will never be perfectly sure
that he will not himself be sold for as distinguished
novelist has well observed, although there s no hon.
ester beast in the whole range of creation than horse
no other has singular faculty for making men dis
honest