DISEASES, DEFECTS, ETC. 109 



old lameness (tr). As it arises from such causes it cannot 

 be called a bad habit, and is therefore not a Vice, but in 

 some cases it indicates an alteration of structure. 



A great many Horses, perfectly quiet in other respects, Vicious to 

 are Vicious to clean, and this probably is the consequence clean, 

 of great sensibility in the skin, and of maltreatment at 

 some time or other ; and although it may be gradually 

 overcome by kindness {a), yet, when it exists in such a 

 degree as to be dangerous, it is a Vice. 



The same may be said of being Vicious to sJioe as where Vicious to 

 a Horse is Vicious to clean, except that it is much less shoe, 

 common; however, when it is dangerous to shoe such a 

 Horse, he must be considered to have a Vice (i/) . 



Horses perfectly white or cream-coloured have the iris Wall-eyed. 

 icJiite and the pujv'l red. When Horses of other colours, 

 and they are usually pied ones, have a ickife iris and a 

 black pupil, they are said to be Wall-eyed. Yulgar 

 opinion has decided that a Wall-eijed Horse is never 

 subject to blindness, but this seems altogether erroneous, 

 as there appears to be no difference of structure which can 

 produce this exemption {z) . 



As to Warbles see Saddle-galls {a). Warbles. 



Warts are tumours of variable size, arising first from the Warts. 

 cuticle, and afterwards connected with the true skin by 

 means of the vessels which supply the growth of the 

 tumours. They are found sometimes on the eyelids, on 

 various parts of the skin, and on the prepuce (b). Unless, 

 however, they exist to such an extent as to impede any of 

 the natural functions, or in such a situation as to prevent a 

 saddle, bridle, or harness being put on a Horse, they are 

 not Unsoundness (c). 



For Water-farcy see Farcy [d). Water-farcy. 



Weak-foot often arises from disease, but in many in- Weak-foot, 

 stances from the natural construction of the foot. In the 

 slanting of the crust from the Coronet to the toe, an angle 

 is formed, amounting probably to not more than forty 

 instead of forty-five degrees ; and after the horse has been 

 worked for a year or two, the line, instead of being 

 straight, becomes a little indented or hollow midway 

 between the Coronet and the toe. Horses with these feet 



(«') Lib. U. K. "The Horse," {a) Saddle-galls, ante, p. 100. 



344. [b) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," 



{x) Ibid. 338. 381. 



(V) See Lib. U. K. "The Horse," (c) Kiddell v. Burnard, 9 M. & W. 



App. Ed. 1862, 521. G70. 



{:) Ibid. 93. {il) Farcy, ante, p. 88. 



