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in certain horses whose hairs have the curly aspect of astracan. The 

 Hackney Cab Company has had several such horses in their service. 

 They were of Danish origin. 



This peculiarity can be indicated by the expression curly or friz- 

 zled. 



Example : with chestnut sorrel hair, frizzled. 



7. Discoloration of the Hairs or of the Skin. 



The hairs and the integument itself are in certain cases the seat of 

 discolorations which it is important to note. They include the washed 

 hairs and the leprous spots. 



Washed Hairs. This expression signifies a general or partial 

 discoloration of the coat, as if the hairs had been subjected to the action 

 of water in order to make its primitive color disappear. 



Examples : dappled burnt sorrel, washed at the elbows and the stifles ; 

 brown bay, washed at the axilla, the flank, and the buttocks ; light sorrel, 

 washed. 



Leprous Spots (Ladre). These terms, used to describe the in- 

 tegumentary .lesions in lepers, are applied, in the exterior, to the parts 

 of the integument which are destitute of their normal coloration in 

 consequence of the absence of the cutaneous pigment in these places. 

 The skin in these locations is of a pale or rosy color, which greatly 

 contrasts with the surrounding black surface. Irregular spots, ordi- 

 narily denuded, thus result, which can be compared to the surface, at 

 times variously colored, of the leprous skin. 



The discolorations are most often met around and in the interior of 

 the natural openings (mouth, nostrils, eyes, sheath, anus, vulva), or 

 upon the testicles, the mamma}, the internal face of the thighs, the 

 perineum, and the trunk of the tail ; at times they are disseminated 

 over the body in the different regions, and then the presence of the 

 hairs renders them less visible. It is interesting to know that they 

 are capable of increasing both in extent and in number, as well as of 

 disappearing, although the causes of these singular phenomena cannot 

 be explained. 



Leprous spots are named 



Mixed, when the skin, which is their seat, is still provided with 

 hairs. 



Bordered, when, hairless in its centre, it is prolonged under the pe- 

 ripheral hairs and forms with them a sort of border around the given spot. 



Marbled, when it presents here and there black spots or very dark 

 points, at the level of which the skin is not discolored. 



