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bone. It is caused by concussion, and renders the animal 

 sore and travel-short a day after he has had any work, 

 especially over hard and rugged streets. 



Pumiced Foot is considered unsoundness when the 

 union between the horny and sensible laminae, or little 

 plates of the foot, is weakened, and the coffin-bone is let 

 down and presses upon the sole ; " when the sole yields to 

 this unnatural weight, and becomes rounded, and is brought 

 in contact with the ground, and is bruised and injured, 

 that horse must be unsound, and unsound forever, because 

 there are no means by w^hich we can raise the coffin-bone 

 again into its place," says Mr. Youatt. 



Paealysis is to be considered as unsoundness, as it is a 

 disorganization of some part of the nervous system, and 

 must be considered as such ; although great difficulty may 

 arise to trace it to its seat, yet sufficient is known of the 

 disease to designate it as an unsoundness. Various causes 

 might be the means of bringing on this trouble, but no 

 matter the cause, the result is what we are to deal with ; 

 an animal having been once affected, is very much predis- 

 posed to a future attack, besides the actual weakness that 

 must remain for some time at the spot where the disease 

 was seated ; and the onl?/ manner in which a horse that 

 has had paralysis could be warranted, is, after the animal 

 has been worked as an ordinary horse, and for a time 

 not less than twelve months, without showing any signs of 

 its return. 



Qtjittor is to be considered as unsoundness, (no matter 

 jf the abscess ceases to discharge its humor and the wound 

 healed,) should any enlargement of the coronet remain, or 

 the foot in any manner altered in its size or shape from its 

 fellow ; for if an enlargement remain, we might be certain 

 that the cartilages have been affected ; and if the foot be 



