4Q HORSE DOCTOR. 



unsound for ever, because there arc no means by which 

 we can raise the coffin-bone again into its place. 



aUIDDING. 



If the mastication of the food gives pain to the animal, 

 in consequence of soreness of the mouth or throat, he 

 will drop it before it is perfectly chewed. This, as an 

 indication of disease, constitutes unsoundness. Q,uid- 

 ding sometimes arises from irregularity in the teelh, 

 which wounds the dieek with their sharp edges ; or a 

 protruding tooth renders it impossible for the horse to 

 close his jaws so as to chew his food thoroughly, duid- 

 ding is unsoundness for the time ; but the unsoundness 

 will cease when the teeth are properly filed, or the sore- 

 ness or other cause of this imperfect chewing removed. 



QUITTOR 



Is manifestly unsoundness. 



RING-BONK 



Although when the bony tumor is small, and on one 

 side only, there is little or no lameness — and there are a 

 few instances in which a horse with ring-bone has 

 worked for many years without its return — yet from the 

 action of the foot, and the stress upon the part,4he in- 

 flammation and the formation of bone may acquire a 

 tendency to spread so rapidly, that we must pronounce 

 the slightest enlargement of the pasterns, or around the 

 coronet, to be a cause of unsoundness. 



SANDCRACK 



Is manifestly unsoundness. It may, however, occur 

 without the slightest warning, and no horse can be re- 

 jected on account of a sandcrack tiiat has sprung after 

 purchase. Its usual cause is too great brittleness of the 



