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WHAT DISEASES CONSTITUTE UNSOUKDNESS OR VICE. 



Contagious 

 Diseases 

 (Animals) 

 Act. 



Glaucoma. 



Grease. 



Grogginess. 



fore, knowingly to bring a Griandered Horse into a public 

 place is held to be an indictable offence («•). 



By the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878 (41 & 

 42 Yict. c. 74), sect. 32, sub-ss. xxsii., xxxiii., the Privy 

 Council may from time to time make such general or special 

 orders as they may think fit, subject and according to the 

 provisions of the act, for applying all or any of the pro- 

 visions of the act to Horses, Asses, and Mules, and to 

 glanders and farcy, and other diseases thereof ; and for 

 extending for all or any of the purposes of the act the 

 definition of disease in the act, so that the same shall for 

 those purposes comprise any disease of animals in addition 

 to the diseases mentioned in the act. Accordingly, by 

 Order 442, Horses, &c, are to be deemed " animals," and 

 glanders and farcy "diseases;" and it shall not be lawful to 

 expose a diseased Horse in a sale-yard or other public or 

 private place where Horses, &c. are commonly exposed for 

 sale. And provisions are also made against placing a 

 diseased Horse in a lair, &c. adjacent to a market or fair, 

 and also with regard to the carriage and pastming of 

 diseased Horses. 



Glaucoma is a dimness or obscurity of sight from an 

 opacity of the vitreous humour. It is difficult to ascertain, 

 and is only to be discovered by a very attentive examina- 

 tion of the eye. It prevents a Horse from appreciating 

 objects, and is therefore an Unsoundness {x). 



Swelled legs, although distinct from Grease, are apt to 

 degenerate into it. It is an inflammation of the skin of 

 the heel ; sometimes of the fore, but of tener of the hind, 

 foot. The skin of the heel of the Horse somewhat differs 

 from that of any other part. There is a great deal of 

 motion in the fetlock, and to prevent the skin from 

 excoriation or chapping, it is necessary that it should be 

 kept soft and pliable ; therefore, in the healthy state of 

 the part, the skin of the heel has a peculiar greasy feel. 

 Under inflammation, the secretion of this greasy matter is 

 stopped, the heels become red, dry and scurfy ; and being 

 almost constantly in motion, cracks soon succeed ; these 

 sometimes extend, and the whole surface of the heel 

 becomes a mass of soreness, ulceration and fungus (y) . 

 "When this disease renders a Horse unfit for immediate 

 work, it must be considered an Unsoundness. 



The peculiar knuckling over of the fetlock- joint and 



{w) Req. V. Senson, 1 Dears. & B., Westminster, Feb. 10, 1857. 

 Pearce, C. C. 24. (y) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," 



(.r) Settle V. Garner, cor. Martin, 276. 



