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have not a doubt in my own mind, that crib-biting 

 constitutes unsoundness, so long as the doctrine is 

 held to be law, that indications of approaching 

 disease fall under that term. A crib-biter will 

 never retain his condition; and a horse that will 

 not retain his condition, is never fit for constant 

 work. Veterinary surgeons are divided as to the 

 pathological cause of this falling off in condition, 

 but all are agreed upon the fact ; and 1 think it not 

 improbable, that the habit may affect the secretion 

 of the glands from which the saliva proceeds, and 

 thereby impede digestion. 



There is a very strong case upon the subject of 

 hereditary disease, in 1 Ryan and Moody, 136 ; it 

 is the case of Joliiff v. Baudell. The following is 

 a marginal note of it : — 



Certain sheep, apparently healthy and sound in 

 every respect, were sold, warranted sound; two 

 months afterwards, great part of them died. There 

 was nothing to connect the disease of which they 

 died with their previous condition, but it w^as, in 

 the opinion of farmers and breeders, an hereditary 

 disease, called the goggles, and incapable of dis- 

 covery, until its fatal appearance. It was held 

 that this disease was an unsoundness existing at 

 the time of the sale, the jury being of opinion, 

 that " it existed in the constitution of the sheep at 

 that time." 



