SEATS OF DISEASE. 497 



" The trunk and quarters. Each side of the chest ; 

 for marks of blisters and rowels. The space between 

 the fore-legs ; for the same. The stifle ; for en- 

 largement. The groin ; for rupture. 



" The hock ; for capped hock, curb, thorough-pin 

 bone spavin, and bog spavin, (no blood spavin.) 

 Then the horse should be mounted, and ridden a 

 few hundred yards at a gallop, in order to quicken 

 his breathing, and thereby display the presence or 

 absence of roaring, thick-wind, or broken-wind. 



" This brief summary will assist the memory, 

 bringing, as it does, the seat and causes of unsound- 

 ness into one point of view. It includes, however, 

 some ohjectionables^ which, properly speaking, do 

 not constitute unsoundness ; such as windgalls, 

 thorough-pin, capped hock, and string halt. The 

 first two are objectionable, as indicating that the 

 horse has been severely exerted, and may be other- 

 wise more seriously injured. The two last are 

 eye-sores, and only to be avoided as such." 



We will remark on a few of the points here 

 specified which relate to fraud and warranty. The 

 eye is a point difficult to decide upon, and often 

 a subject for fraud, particularly amongst the lower 

 orders of dealers, who used formerly to have very 

 bright ivhite walls, against which they showed 

 their horses, when the reflection concealed cata- 

 racts, which are in themselves white. But this 

 important organ is difficult to judge of, even in its 

 healthy state, by reason of the varieties in itis 

 organisation ; and still more so to detect the extent 

 of disease which may have, at some time or an- 

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