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bleeding and blistering will give relief. Some use 

 setons to the throat. Mr. Youatt says, " A more 

 frequent and previously unsuspected cause of roaring, 

 is the habit of tight reining. There can be no doubt 

 that many more carriage-horses become roarers than 

 those that are used for the saddle alone ; and the ex- 

 planation of this at once presents itself in the continued 

 and painful pressure on these parts, caused by reining 

 in the carriage-horse and teaching him to bear himself 

 well. We have seen the larynx and that portion of the 

 windpipe immediately beneath it, flattened and bent, 

 and twisted in the strangest way, which could not have 

 been produced by disease, but by mechanical injury 

 alone. The mischief is usually done with young horses. 

 The arched neck and elevated head of the carriage- 

 horse is an unnatural position, from which the animal 

 most habituated to it is eager to be relieved." 



The same author states that this disease may be 

 generated in the young colt. 



CRIB-BITING. 



This generally originates in a want of proper powers 

 of digestion ; it comes under the denomination of a 

 vice : this is improper, as undoubtedly it can be traced 

 to bad feeding, which soon begets indigestion. Its 

 name is derived from the habit horses afflicted thus 

 have of hiting their stall, at the same time accompanied 

 with a convulsed motion of the windpipe, as if suck 

 the ivind, which it is erroneously called at times. The 

 habit of buckling straps tightly round the neck in this 

 disease, and thus compressing the larynx, is very apt 



