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clearly as though you were looking at a piece of crystal. 

 The best position one can generally adopt is to put his 

 head in the stable-door, placing yourself in the shade, 

 inside the stable, and looking through one of the eyes 

 with great care, towards the light. When satisfied with 

 the inspection, proceed with equal deliberation and pains 

 to examine the other eye. Now stand opposite the 

 animal's face, and examine both eyes well, by looking 

 through them towards the stable or shade. It does not 

 always follow that, because one eye is perfect, the other 

 may not be tainted, although this may not be obvious 

 at the moment. 



Any disease in the eye, even from the slightest cold 

 or inflammation, until it be completely cured, or until 

 it has terminated in total blindness, stamps the animal 

 as UNSOUND. 



All eyes predisposed to inflammation, although not 

 actually affected by this complaint at the time of 

 the warranty being drawn up, must be considered to 

 stamp the horse as UNSOUND. 



Where there is reason to suppose that all tendency to 

 inflammation in these organs has ceased, whether from 

 the animal's age or otherwise, if there are any marks 

 of injury remaining as is mostly the case from the 

 smallest cataract, not larger than a needle's point ; or if 

 there is the slightest dilatation of the pupil, the horse is 



UNSOUND. 



