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Then came the question of warranty for crib-biting. 



Dr. Zlnmal said crib-biting- was very detrimental, 

 because all the other horses in the stable with a 

 crib-biter contract the same habit.* 



Dr. Stichel said, that in Russia military horses 

 were fed by nose-bag's, and still they were crib-biters. 



Dr. Zlamal thought this observation deserved 

 great consideration. 



After this came the question of cataract. 



Dr. Zlamal was decidedly in favour of warranty 

 for black cataract but not for grey. Of the green 

 cataract he did not intend to speak. 



Dr. Pill wax believed it to be an established fact, 

 that a horse which is half blind cannot altogether be 

 depended on. 



Dr. Siefman agreed with Dr. Pillwaxj that ob- 

 jects which a horse could not distinctly see might 

 frighten it. 



Dr. Frank thought the law of warranty ought to 

 extend to green cataract. 



Nothing was said about cataract of any other 

 colour. 



The next subject was ringworm. 



Dr. Gerlach protested against the expression 

 (C ringworm." 



* Contagion again. Of course this is the old delusion, as in 

 the case of almost all these supposed contagious diseases. The 

 same bad management produces in all the horses the same crib- 

 biting habits, and the first that begau it gets the credit of giving 

 it to the others. 



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