DISEASES AND AILMENTS OK HORSES, ETC. l07 



tlio animal is sufTcrinf^ from structural injurv, 

 and, as has beeu repeatedly shown before, that is 

 a certain test of unsoundness. On this defect the 

 case of Ons/oic v. Eames {/i) should he read, where 

 it was decided that roaring was a malady which 

 rendered a horse less serviceable for a per- 

 manency, and, therefore, unsound. This decision 

 was qualified in Bnnnctt v. Coll is (/), but the latter 

 case is doubtful. 



Diseases of the Head and Throat. — In 

 treating of broken wind, reference was made to 

 coughs. These may proceed from the lungs or 

 intestines, as in broken wind, or from the throat, 

 as in bronchitis, and it will not bo necessary to 

 say anything further here respecting coughs than 

 that they are unsoundness. The principal disease 

 affecting a horse's head are glanders, strangles, 

 influenza, catan-h and blindness. 



Glanders are, of course, unsoundness. The Gianciera 

 symptoms in the advanced stage are unmistake- Jlounced to 

 able. The disease is incurable ; but sometimes a ^f »"cur- 



' able. 



horse is alleged to bo glandered when it is only 

 suffering from strangles or catarrh. A horse does 

 not become glandered in a few hours, that is, witli 

 the disease fully developed ; the complaint is one 

 that takes some time to come out. If, however, a 



(/() 2 Starkie, X. V. C. 81. (,) 2 Campbell. .V22. 



