The veterinary surgeon; or, Farriery taught on a new and easy plan : being a treatise on all the diseases and accidents to which the horse is liable ... with instructions to the shoeing-smith, farrier, and groom / by John Hinds.

  • Hinds, John, active 1803-1830.
Date:
1827
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Credit: The veterinary surgeon; or, Farriery taught on a new and easy plan : being a treatise on all the diseases and accidents to which the horse is liable ... with instructions to the shoeing-smith, farrier, and groom / by John Hinds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    worthy of note, too, that the horse which exe- cutes this change with the least trouble, and oftenest, has most power and command of his limbs. [See Index—Fever in the feet.] When both legs before are attacked, the horse exhibits a crippling uncertain gait, not unlike that of a drunken man, whence the term groggy has been applied (in Yorkshire pronounced graw-gy); and, if he is not timely indulged in rest and a run at grass, he is a ruined horse, and becomes soon what is termed foundered, of which dis- order there are several kinds. The mistaking one kind of founder for another generally costs the animal his life, sooner or later, and the studious inquirer had better turn to the next Chapter (at sect. 21, paragraph S), where he will find a few words on chest founder, many of the symptoms whereof are not unlike this of the feet. Horses full of feed, and requiring purgative physic, stand with the legs stretched, more than our second cut, at page 18,—inordinately at times. Old Gibson attributed it to vice, and a disposi- tion to kick, when a horse holds his toe scarcely resting on the ground ; this is not always the case, for his fore-leg is as frequently so held a-trip as his hind one; and I consider it the token alike of sore foot, of tiresomeness, or of incipient founder. 12. Besides the disproportion the fore and hind legs bear to each other, another series of defects in construction exists between the length of the fore limbs and that of the trunk, being sometimes