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CHAPTER VIII. 



Teeth of foal — Teeth : structure of ; six months old ; eighteen 

 months old — Wolf teeth : two years old — Bishoping — Anecdote 

 of bishoping — Soreness of mouth during dentition — Mouth : 

 three years old ; three and a half years old ; four years old ; four 

 and a half years old ; five years old ; six years old ; seven years 

 old ; eight years old ; nine, ten, and eleven years old ; fourteen 

 and seventeen years old ; twenty-one years old — Marks of old age 

 — Paganini (thirty-one years old) — Diseases — Ignorance of horse- 

 show judges — Ignorance of dealers — The horse compared to a 

 machine — Glanders- — Mistaken opinion of veterinary surgeons 

 respecting glanders — The frontal sinus — Treatment for mistaken 

 glanders, and the detection of the true disease — The ear — Inten- 

 tion and disposition indicated by the motion of the ear — Power of 

 hearing in the horse — Cropping condemned — The eye — The 

 feelers — The haw — Eye too prominent, or the reverse — Trans- 

 parency and cloudiness — Care necessary in examination of sight of 

 liorse prior to purchase — Mode of examination — Frequent cause 

 of ophthalmia — Soundness of sight imperative in breeding stock — 

 Carpet of the eye — The choroid coat of the eye — -Varying colour 

 of eye in different animals — The pupil of the eye— Dilation and 

 contraction of the pupil of the eye — -The eye indicative of dis- 

 position — Care necessary in singeing — Cataract. 



Since I remarked in the prefatory pages of the present 

 work that it is my desire to make it instructive as 

 well as amusing so far as in me lies, I think that a 

 few pages devoted to the method of ascertaining the 

 age of a horse, as also reference to some of the 

 diseases which horses are liable to, will be hardly out 

 of place, and may also prove of service to the reader. 

 A few days after the birth of a foal the first and 



