4 Roaring in Horses. 



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

 cannot be pursy." 



These remarks of Wallis are chiefly based on the observa- 

 tions and description of Solleysel/ one of the celebrated 

 French " dcuyers hippiatres " of the seventeenth century, 

 and who is the first 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 " Encyclopedie " 

 (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. ,2 however, compensates for this 

 brevity in the references of his predecessors by giving a 

 somewhat long article on Cornage, 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 affected the soundness of horses and 

 the law of warranty {garantie redltibitoire). Hurtrel 



1 " Parfait Mareschal," Paris, 1(564. 



- " M(?moire sur la Cornage," Paris, 1783. 



' "Instructions Veterinaire,'' Paris, 1795. 



^ " Correspondance sur la Conservation et Amelioration des Animanx 

 Domestiques," Paris, 1810-11. 



^ " Memoires et Observations sur la M^decine et la Chirurgie Vutferi- 

 naire," Lyons, 1813. 



