4 Roaring in Horses. 



neither will they have a cough with it, and therefore they 

 cannot be purs3^" 



These remarks of Wallis are chiefly based on the observa- 

 tions and description of Solleysel/ one of the celebrated 

 French " ecuyers hippiatres " of the seventeenth century, 

 and who is the flrst writer who alludes to Corn age, as he 

 then designated the noise, and as it is still designated in 

 France. 



Until the early part of the present century, nothing more 

 definite with regard to this morbid condition was known in 

 England than was published by Wallis. 



In France, however, nearly a century after Solleysel had 

 described the different kinds of sonorous respiration in the 

 horse — though in a somewhat imperfect manner, it is true 

 — Bourgelat, the illustrious founder of the French veteri- 

 nary schools, and pioneer of modern veterinary medicine, 

 gives a similar description in the great " Encyclopedic " 

 (art. "Cornage"), published in Paris in 1762. Lafosse, 

 sen., in his " Dictionnaire d'Hippiatrique " (Paris, 1775) 

 only briefly alludes to it when giving the definition of the 

 term " Cornard," as applied to a horse emitting a noise in 

 breathing. Huzard, sen.,- however, compensates for this 

 brevity in the references of his predecessors by giving a 

 somew^hat long article on Covnage, in a memoir addressed 

 to the Parliament of Normandy in 1783, though he deals 

 with the subject chiefly from a jurisprudence point of view. 



After Huzard, Chabert, Flandrin,^ Fromage de Feugre,"^ 

 and Gohier,^ deal in their treatises with this condition, but, 

 like Huzard, only as it aflected the soundness of horses and 

 the law of w^arranty (garantie redluhitoire). Hurtrel 



1 " Parfait Mareschal," Paris, 16G4. 



- "Memoire sur la Cornage," Paris, 1783. 



^ "Instructions Yeterinaire," Paris, 1795. 



4 " Correspondance sur la Conservation et Amelioration des Animaux 

 Domestiques," Paris, 1810-11. 



^ " Memoires et Observations sur la Medecine et la Chirurgie Yeteri- 

 naire," Lyons, 1813. 



