DISEASES, DEFECTS, ETC. 107 



Upon this his Lordship said, " It is a question for the 

 Jury whether String-half produces those effects which in 

 the eye of the law renders him Unsound." And in sum- 

 ming up shortly afterwards his Lordship said to the Jury, 

 " You have heard the evidence as to Strincj-halt ; if you 

 are satisfied that it is a disease calculated to impair the 

 natural usefulness of the Horse you must find for the 

 plaintiff, it being admitted that the Horse had it." The 

 Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. 



For Thicliening of the Back Sinews see Sprain and Thickening 

 Thickening of the Back Sinews (/.:) . _ Sinews^"""^ 



Thick-wind consists of short, frequent and laborious -Ph' 1 " ' l 

 breathings, especially when the Horse is in exercise ; the 

 inspirations and expirations often succeeding each other 

 so rapid as evidently to express distress, and occasionally 

 almost to threaten suffocation. Some degree of it fre- 

 quently exists in round- chested and fat Horses, and heavy 

 draught -horses are almost invariably Thick-winded, aud 

 so are almost all Horses unused to exercise or violently 

 exercised on a full stomach. The principal cause, how- 

 ever, of Thick-wind is previous inflammation, and par- 

 ticularly inflammation of the bronchial passages. Thick- 

 wind is often the forerunner of Broken- wind (/), and 

 when it proceeds from inflammation it is an Unsound- 

 ness {m). 



Thinness of Sole which does not afford sufficient pro- Thinness of 

 tection to the inner or sensible sole makes a Horse liable to ^'-•1<'- 

 lameness. 



In a case tried at Liverpool before Mr. Justice Cress- Held not an 

 well, it appeared that a Horse, whose feet were Thin- "linsoimdness. 

 soled, was sold warranted sound. Some time after sale 

 he went lame, and an action was brought on the warranty. 

 Witnesses were called for the defendant, who stated that 

 the mere fact of a Horse's feet being formed in this 

 manner would not of itself render him Uisound. And 

 Mr. Justice Cress well in summing up said, " The plaintiff 

 must, in order to recover in this action, make out that the 

 Horse was Unsound at the time of sale ; a defective 

 formation, however, not producing lameness at the time 

 of sale, is not, in my opinion. Unsoundness." His lordship 

 then referred to the case of Brown v. Elkington {n), where 



{k) Sprain and Thickening of the 193 ; Atlcinson v. Eorridge, Appen- 



Back Sinews, ante, p. 104. dix. 



[1) Broken-Avind, ante, p. 78. («) Brown v. Elkington, 8 M. & 



(w) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," W. 132. 



