48 LESSONS IN HORSE JUDGING. 



and felt as a large hard prominence which moves up 

 and down when we swallow. It is also called 

 pomum Adami, or Adam's apple. When the nose 

 is held in towards the neck by the bearing-rein 

 being over tight, this delicate box, which is made 

 up of pieces of hard cartilage, moved by numerous 

 delicate muscles, gets pressed out of shape and 

 causes roaring, or grunting, or trumpeting. 



This box is quite between the branches of the 

 jaw in most positions of the head, and is a most 

 delicately organised structure, and therefore soon 

 thrown out of order, causing the above noises in 

 moving. Now there is a disease called the Strangles 

 affecting young horses, in which a gathering or 

 abscess takes place in the space between the jaws, 

 and therefore close to this delicate box, the ' larynx.' 

 During the time the abscess is ripening there is 

 necessarily great inflammation about this box, and 

 if it lasts unduly long by being treated by so-called 

 * home' remedies, or worse still by the farrier, 

 the inflammation is apt to injure the delicate little 

 muscles of which the box is partly composed, and 

 leave the animal a ' roarer.' 



39. — All badly treated gatherings or abscesses 

 are apt to leave behind them two evidences of their 

 former presence, viz : thickening of the skin and 

 parts beneath, and ragged scars. Therefore, always 

 look for these between the jaws of a horse. The 

 skin in this situation should be fine, the hair silky, 

 and you ought to be able to bury your stretched 



