Excerpt from The Spavin Group of Lameness Historically, spavin is perhaps the oldest lameness of the horse. Standing in the foremost rank economically, it has received at least as much, if not more study than any other. Grouped about this malady and certainly allied, if not identical, to it, in cause and pathology, is a long'list of separately de scribed affections, some of which may well challenge the suprem acy of spavin itself in their frequency and power of diminishing or destroying the usefulness of the horse. We have, therefore, elected to give spavin the title role, rather from convenience than from an inherent right of this one affection to dominate the nomenclature of this extensive group. Among the most com mon and important members of the group, in their approximate order of frequency and economic importance, we would mention spavin, navicular disease, ringbone, sidebone, sesamoiditis, spinitis, gonitis, carpitis, humero - radial arthritis, scapulo-humeral arthritis, etc. In the observations of Dr. Fisher spavin should occupy third or fourth place in frequency. Taken as' a group, they constitute by far the most important lamenesses and, in the destruction of the value of the horse, take high rank among all diseases to which this animal is liable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.