An Address On the Natural History And Pathological Osteology of the Horse
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Such a condition of the system might well be termed, in the language of pathology, an exostosi- cal diathesis. Though every bone in the skeletal frame-work of the horse is liable to an attack of exostosis, yet the joints are the most frequently the seat rheumatism, or " founder, " which periosteum of the bones of the chest, you will occasionally find, upon post-mortem ex- amination, that the lower end of the ribs and their appendages are affected with this same malady. At Figure 2 will be seen ...a case of "chest-founder," so called, in which the first and second ribs of the right side are firmly grown together, and are attached by a bony union to the first rib of the opposite side. This specimen was taken from a horse thirty years of age, which was noted for its general usefulness, yet we imagine that this creature must have suffered in its respiratory func- tions, inasmuch as the anterior part of the thorax, or chest, was a solid bone hoop. May not this form of the disease ac- " Chest Founder." of this disease.
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