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in any way altered in its structure, we may also come to 

 the conclusion that some of the bones of the foot, as well 

 as the cartilages, are affected, and the animal hable to go 

 lame at any moment. 



QuiddijSTG is an unsoundness when confirmed, and can- 

 not be stopped by various means; for instance, quidding 

 might be caused from a sore mouth, and after the sore is 

 healed he ceases to quid ; also, from sharp edges of his 

 teeth, or from irregularity of them, which could be reme- 

 died by filing off the edges, or filing off, or extracting the 

 teeth or tooth that causes the irregularity, and he will 

 cease to quid. But if he quids from none of the causes 

 named, or from any cause that cannot be treated so as to 

 remove the continuance of the habit, then it is unsound- 

 ness, as it materially impairs the usefulness of the animal, 

 and his constitution so affected as to make him almost a 

 living skeleton, as in many instances a morbid state of the 

 pharynx is induced by giving balls improperly, which ren- 

 ders deglutition difficult, and sometimes impossible. Mr. 

 Armatage says, ^' Sometimes there is a partial palsy of the 

 muscles employed in deglutition, by which the animal has 

 been gradually starved ; therefore such a termination to 

 any disease, or vice, or whatever it may be termed, must 

 be considered as unsoundness." 



Ringbone is to be considered as unsoundness, no matter 

 how small the tumor may be, or the animal traveling with- 

 out showing any signs of lameness; the situation of this 

 disease is such, that, from the action of the foot, and the 

 stress upon the part, the inflammation and the formation 

 of bone may acquire a tendency to spread so rapidly, that 

 we must pronounce the slightest enlargement of the pas- 

 terns, or around the coronet, to be unsoundness ; according 

 to Mr. Youatt, it is somewhat similar to ossification of the 

 lateral cartil aires. 



