DISEASES, DEFECTS, ETC. 71 



com {r), quittor (s), and thrusli {f). It is extremely 

 di£B.cult to cure {u), and is an unsoundness. 



Capped hocks may be produced by lying on an unevenly- Capped hocks. 

 paved stable, with, a scanty supply of litter, or by kick- 

 ing («), in neither of which cases would they constitute 

 unsoundness, though in the latter they would be an indica- 

 tion of vice; but in the majority of instances they are 

 either the consequence of sprain in the hock, or are 

 accompanied by enlargement of it, when they would be an 

 unsoundness (y). 



A horse with a cataract is unsound. See Blindness (s) . Cataract. 



The muscles of the breast are occasionally the seat of Chestfounder. 

 a singular , and somewhat mysterious disease. The old 

 farriers called it anticor and chestfounder. The horse has 

 considerable stiflEuess in moving, evidently not referable to 

 the feet. There is a tenderness about the muscles of the 

 breast, and occasional swelling, and after a while the 

 muscles of the chest waste considerably (a). It is evidently 

 an unsoundness, and was formerly supposed to proceed from 

 rheumatism ; but now, according to later opinions (b), 

 chestfounder is pronounced to be the result of navicular 

 disease, which, preventing the forelegs from being exercised 

 to the same extent as before, produces an absorption of the 

 muscles of the chest. Anticor is distinguished from chest- 

 founder, and declared to be an abscess of the breast of the 

 brisket. 



But where an action was brought on the warranty of a 

 horse, and the plaintiff obtained a verdict on the ground 

 that the horse was chestfoundered, the Court of Common 

 Pleas refused to grant a new trial on the grounds that there 

 was no known disease to coustitute such an unsoundness, or 

 that the defendant was taken by surprise, the plaintiff 

 having before trial refused to inform him of the cause or 

 nature of the unsoundness (c). 



For chinked in the chine, see Broken-backed (d). Chmked in the 



(r) Corns, post. that it is never occasioned by strains, 



(s) Quittor, post. and is therefore no more than a 



(t) Thrush, post. blemish. 



m) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," (z) Blindness, ante, p. 67. 



308. {a) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," 



(x) Kicking, post. 171. 



{«/) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," (A) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," 



361. See, however, App. to Lib. Ed. 1862, App. 491. 



U. K. "The Horse," Ed. 1862, 522, (c) Atterbury v. Fairmanner, 8 



where an opinion is given that it is Moore, 32. 



not an unsoundness, on the ground (d) Broken-backed, ante, p. 69. 



