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had treated the animal in the usual manner, and was 

 quite right in applying the embrocation to the sides, if 

 the hair was removed. 



Mr. Thomas Dollar, jun., M.R.C.V.S., said that he and 

 his father attended plaintiff's horses. He was called to 

 the horse on the 22nd September, and found the animal 

 much distended and in great pain ; it was suffering from 

 tympanitis and coUc impaction, caused by wind-sucking, 

 and was very ill ; he thought it would not recover. Mr. 

 Ward met him in consultation ; the horse did recover. 

 He should consider a wind-sucker like this animal 

 unsound. The horse would be liable to indigestion and 

 colic. He knew Professor Williams' work and agreed with 

 him in his remarks on the habit, on page 503. 



Mr. George Fleming, F.R.C.V.S., said that he had 

 twenty-five years' experience ; had listened attentively to 

 the evidence given by Mr. Ward, and quite coincided with 

 it. " Wind-sucking" was most undoubtedly unsoundness ; 

 it would increase, and tend to shorten life — certainly to 

 impair the animal's usefulness ; and would produce 

 alterations in the digestive organs, the walls of which 

 would become thinner ; the digestive functions would also 

 become impaired. There was no cure ; the habit would 

 continue to increase ; rupture of the stomach frequently 

 occurred. In reply to his lordship, he should not pass 

 such a horse for tlie Army under any circumstances ; 

 indeed, he would not have a horse in his regiment that 

 was a wind-sucker, as other horses acquired the habit, and 

 it would therefore be dangerous for them to be allowed 

 to stand with one so affected. Indigestion would arise 

 from it ; the vision would be affected during acute 

 tympanitis; the oesophagus would become dilated in time, 

 and the larynx altered. He quite agreed with the opinion 

 of Professor WiUiams in liis work, page 503 (paragraphs on 

 crib-biting and wind-sucking). 



