spavin

• He says he's going to put Jim out to grass in the Colonel's back sheep pasture, and when Aunt Meda comes home lie about sudden spavin or something. —  Flamsted quarries
• Hence, an active bone spavin or ringbone, causing lameness, is more objectionable than that in which the inflammation and lameness have both passed, and an active ophthalmia is more to be feared than even an old cataract. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• With no enlargement perceptible to sight or touch the animal may yet be disabled by an occult spavin, an anchylosis in fact, which has resulted from a union of several of the bones of the joint, and it is only those who are able to realize the importance of its action to the perfect fulfillment of the function of locomotion by the hind leg who can comprehend the gravity of the only prognosis which can be justified by the facts of the case--a prognosis which is essentially a sentence of serious import in respect to the future usefulness and value of the animal. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• If they are discovered on both hocks, it proves merely that they are not confined to a single joint The characteristic lameness of bone spavin, as it affects the motion of the hock joint, presents two aspects. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• We are fully persuaded that but for the loss of the time wasted in the treatment of purely imaginary ailments very many cases of bone spavin might be arrested in their incipiency and their victims preserved for years of comfort for themselves and valuable labor to their owners Treatment._--To consider a hypothetical case: An early discovery of lameness has been made; that is, the existence of an acute inflammation--of periostitis--has been detected. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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