WHAT DISEASES CONSTITUTE UNSOUNDNESS OR VICE. 



Enlarged 

 Glands. 



Enlarged 

 Hock. 



Ewe neck. 

 False Quarter. 



Farcy. 



and so much fluid accumulates as to obstruct the beating 

 of the heart. This is called Dropsy of the heart {h), and 

 each of these diseases is an Unsoundness {i). 



Simple Catarrh will occasionally, and severe affection 

 of the chest ■will generally, be accompanied by a swelling 

 of the Glands under the jaw, and this does not subside 

 for a considerable time after the cold or fever has appa- 

 rently been cured. If the Enlargement is considerable, 

 and especially if tender, and the gland at the root of the 

 ear partakes of it, and the membrane of the nose is redder 

 than it should be, the commencement or lurking of some 

 insidious disease is to be feared (A') ; and a Horse under 

 such circumstances is Unsound. 



When the Hock is enlarged, the structure of this com- 

 plicated joint is so materially affected, that although the 

 Horse may appear for a considerable time to do ordinary 

 work well, he will occasionally fail even as to that, and a 

 few days' hard work will always lame him (/). A decided 

 case of Enlarged hock is an Unsoundness, unless it is a 

 mere blemish, the result of external injuries. 



For Eu-e Neck see Star-gazer {ni). 



Where the coronary ligaments by which the horn of the 

 coronet is secreted, is either divided by a cut or bruise, or 

 eaten through by caustic, there will be a division of the 

 horn as it grows down, either in the form of a permanent 

 Sandcrack {n), or of one portion of the horn overlapping 

 the other. This is not only a very serious defect, and a 

 frequent cause of lameness, but it is exceedingly difficult 

 to remedy (o) ; and must be considered Unsoundness. 

 Sometimes the horn grows down whole, but the ligament 

 is unable to secrete that which is perfectly healthy, and 

 therefore there is a narrow strip of horn of a different and 

 lighter colour. 



Farcy, which is a disease of the absorbents of the skin, 

 ' an Unsoundness. It is immediately connected with 



IS 



Glanders ( p) ; they will run into each other, or their 

 symptoms will mingle together ; and before either arrives 

 at its fatal termination, its associate will almost invariably 

 appear. An animal inoculated with the matter of Farcy 



(h) Lib. TJ. K. " The Horse, "171. 



(i) See Eaves v. Dixon, 2 Taunt. 

 343. 



(k) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," 

 363. 



{I) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," 

 363. See also Lib. U. K., Ed. 



1862, App. 523; and see Capped 

 Hocks, ante, p. 79. 



{»i) Star-gazer, post. 



(ii) Sandcrack, post. 



(o) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," 

 301. 



(p) Glanders, post. 



