DISEASES, DEFECTS, ETC. 



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It is a disease not only infectious to beasts (to), but also Infectious to 

 to man. Therefore, knowingly to bring a glandered horse ™'*°'""'^- 

 into a public place is held to be an indictable offence (x). 



By the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. Diseases of 

 0. 57), s. 22 (xxxv.), (xxxvi.), the Board of Agriculture may Animals Act, 

 make such orders as they think fit, subject and according *" 

 to the provisions of the Act, for extending, for all or any of 

 the purposes of the Act, the definition of disease in the 

 Act, so that the same shall for those purposes, or any of 

 them, comprise any disease of animals in addition to those 

 mentioned in the Act, and in like manner for extending 

 the definition of animals in the Act, so that the same shall 

 for the purposes of the Act, or any of them, comprise any 

 kind of four-footed beast, in addition to the animals men- 

 tioned in the Act. Accordingly, by the Glanders or Farcy 

 Order, 1894, horses, &c., are to be deemed " animals," and 

 glanders, including farcy, a " disease." And it shall not be 

 lawful to expose a diseased horse in a sale-yard or other public 

 or private place where horses, &c., are commonly exposed for 

 sale. Provisions are also made against placing a diseased 

 horse in a lair, &c., adjacent to a market or fair, and also with 

 regard to the carriage and pasturing of diseased horses. 



Glaucoma is a dimness or obscurity of sight from an Glaucoma. 

 opacity of the vitreous humour. It is difB.cult to ascertain, 

 and is only to be discovered by a very attentive examina- 

 tion of the eye. It prevents a horse from appreciating 

 objects, and is therefore an unsoundness {y) . 



Swelled legs, although distinct from grease, are apt to Grease. 

 degenerate into it. It is an inflammation of the skin of 

 the heel ; sometimes of the fore, but oftener of the hind, 

 foot. The skin of the heel of the horse somewhat diSers 

 from that of any other part. There is a great deal of 

 motion in the fetlock, and to prevent the skin from ex- 

 coriation or chapping, it is necessary that it should be kept 

 soft and pliable ; therefore in the healthy state of the part 

 the skin of the heel has a peculiar greasy feel. Under in- 

 flammation, the secretion of this greasy matter is stopped, 

 the heels become red, dry, and scurfy ; and being almost 

 constantly in motion, cracks soon succeed ; these sometimes 



that the moment symptoms of glan- 

 ders appear in a horse he is unsound ; 

 and that whether or not the symp- 

 toms are in fact the seeds of the 

 disease is to be proTed by the future 

 history of the horse. 



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(w) ^eeBairdY. Graham, 14 Court 

 of Sess. 615 (Sco.). 



ix) Reg. T. Henson, 1 Dears. & 

 Pearce, C. C. 24. 



(y) Settle T. Garner, cor. Martin, 

 B., Westminster, Feb. 10, 1857. 



