stringhalt
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One summer he wandered through South Dakota selling farmers a home-remedy book with cures for lump jaw and scabies in cattle, stringhalt in horses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Foot-ball produces what may be called the endogenous or ingrowing toenail, stringhalt and mania.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
She had learned the symptoms of epizoötic—whatever that was—and poll-evil and stringhalt, and had gone from that to making a shopping tour through a Montgomery Ward catalogue.
From The Quirt by Fischer, Anton Otto
Melanotic tumors have been found in the brain and meninges in the form of small, black nodules in gray horses, and in one instance are believed to have induced the condition known as stringhalt.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
But if he does the same thing with his hind-legs they call it springhalt or stringhalt, or something of that kind, and set him down as a beastly old plug.
From The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews by Bangs, John Kendrick
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