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owners still decrees that the external ear, which nature has provided as 

 a protection to a most delicate organ, shall be cut away in obedience to a 

 vulgar fancy. 



Crown Scabs.— Applied to a scurfiness and humourous discharge round 

 the coronet. It should be treated in the same way as Grease. 



Docking* is the shortening of the substance of the tail. 



Falling Evil, or Falling Sickness (also ealled Planet-struck, Night- 

 mare, or Palsy). 



Feltoric— Another name for Anticor or Anticow. 



Frettige. — Another name for founder. 



Grogginess. — A term applied to a horse when he goes unsteady and 

 blunderingly without apparent cause. It is also called surbaiting, and 

 may be caus d by hard travel on macadamised reads, battering the hoofs, 

 and producing stiffness and inflammation of the legs. It is characterised 

 by a tottering gait or knuckling of the fetlock joint, showing weakness, 

 and is often associated with disease of the navicular bone, or the tendon 

 running over it. 



Grunters are horses unsound in wind. 



Hammer and Pincers.— A term applied to horses overreaching and 

 striking the fore heels with the hind toes. 



Hungry Evil.— Or er greediness in eating is so called, bat, of course, 

 it is only a symptom, not a disease. 



Interfering or Shackle Galls.— Striking one leg against the other. 

 Shackle galling is any galling under the fetlock. 



Javart. — Another name for quittor. 



Kernels in the Throat.— Lumps, as strangles. 



Lask, or Bloody Flux.— Dysentery. 



Matlong. — An ulcer on the coronet. 



Moon-eye.— Dimness of sight, often preceding a cataract. 



Mules. — Eats'-tails, which see. 



Nicking.— Four or five cuts, ons made across the under side of the 

 tail— the object was to produce a cock-tail. 



Oslets. — A kind of splint near the knee bone on the inside is so called. 



Pearl Pin and Web.— A film on the eye, dimming the sight. 



Quidding".— Chewing the food into balls, and dropping it out of the 

 mouth. 



Rats' Tails. — Excrescences discharging ichorous matter, extending* 

 from the middle of the shank to the fetlock. 



Scrupin.— A splint. 



Sleeping* Evil.— Stomach staggers. 



Tetters.— A cutaneous disease, with itchiness, prurigo. 



