The heavy-looking man on the little brown horse that keeps coughing and is suffering apparently from bone spavin?
Either firing alone or stimulation with blisters is of great efficacy for the relief of lameness from bone spavin.
The characteristic lameness of bone spavin, as it affects the motion of the hock joint, presents two aspects.
disease of the hock joint of a horse, early 15c., from Middle French espavain, perhaps from Frankish *sparwan "sparrow" (see sparrow), so called perhaps from comparison of the bird's awkward gait to that of a horse affected with spavin.
