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payment is not made, he can be sent to prison for a while, or till 

 he can claim the benefit of the insolvent act. 



Few persons will bring an action at court for swindling or get- 

 ting money under false pretences, by horse dealing, for it will be 

 difficult to maintain such an action, and get a verdict upon it. 

 (See Soundness.) 



Warbles. — rSee Skin Diseases.) 



Water Farcy. — (See Dropsy and Farcy.) 



Weeping Eye. — As its name indicates, this is a flow of tears 

 from the eye down the side of tlie face, instead of through their 

 proper channel. 



Causes. Obstruction in the lachrymal sac, or nasal duct, from 

 a disease called fistula lachrymalis. 



Treatment. This is the province of the surgeon and anatomist. 



Wens. — The common name for external tumors. 



Wheezing. — This is a sound given from a horse having en- 

 larged glands, or thickening of the membrane of the wind-pipe, 

 or the glands pressing upon the head decreasing its calibre. Whist- 

 ling is caused by the same alteration of structure in the wind-})ipe. 



Whirl- Bone, a Sprain of the. — (See Sprains and Hock.) 



Wind Galls. — Are soft but elastic swellings or enlargements. 

 They are non-inflammatory in character, and are produced by the 

 same cause, governed by the same laws, and present the same 

 phenomena as bog, blood spavin, and other enlarged or distended 

 bursa of joints, which are all produced by, and are evidences of, 

 hard work. No treatment for them will be satisffictory, as they 

 will return again, even if they have been removed. 



'Wind- Sucking. — (See Crib-biter.) 



Worms. — The worms which inhabit the body of the horse are 

 of many varieties. Some of them are harmless, while others in- 

 terfere with his health. They are, 1st, The bot or oesirus equi, found 

 inhabiting the stomach. 2nd. The xstrus Hsemorrlioidalis or Fun- 

 damental bot found in the rectum, and often seen about the anus, 

 and under the tail. 3rd. The strongylus, and Filaria, found in 

 the aorta, and other blood vessels. 4th. The ascarides vermicukms, 

 found in small cells within the mucous covering of the coecum, or 

 blind gut. 5th. Filaria, found in the aqueous humor of the eye. 



(1.) Stomach Bot. — These worms are the result of turning 



