48 RURAL VETERINARY SECRETS 



CRIBBING AND WINDSUCKING are two diseases due to 

 idleness, or the habit may have started in the colt during teething. 

 It is a very unpleasant vice and affects the condition of a horse more 

 or less due to its detriment. The application of a neck-strap when 

 in the stable and plenty of work are so far the most satisfactory 

 measures to adopt. These vices are considered as UNSOUND- 

 NESSES in horses, therefore, in the examination of a horse the 

 edges of the front teeth should be looked at to see if those edges are 

 worn or chipped, the impress of the neck-strap upon the hair may 

 sometimes be detected, and the prospective buyer will draw conclu- 

 sions accordingly. 



DISCHARGES FROM THE NOSTRILS are of common oc- 

 currence, some are quite serious in their import, others not so much 

 so; briefly we may class them as follows : 



1. If chronic and no smell, yellowish or greenish in color, 

 sticky and from one nostril, often the left, suspect glanders. 



2. If chronic and from one nostril, the discharge being of 

 a stinking nature, suspect a decayed tooth. 



3. If chronic from both nostrils, white, glossy, flaky, not 

 sticky, more abundant during mastication, the discharge is like- 

 ly from the guttural pouches. 



4. If chronic, becoming of the nature of pus, and stinking, 

 catarrh, the bones of the head being affected. 



ACUTE DISCHARGES are seen in common colds, inflamma- 

 tion of the larynx, bronchitis, pneumonia and lung gangrene (rot- 

 ting). 



