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WHAT DISEASES CONSTITUTE UNSOUNDNESS OR VICE. 



Vicious to 

 fllean. 



Vicious to 

 shoe. 



Wall-eyed, 



AVarbles. 

 Warts. 



Water-farcy. 

 Weak-foot. 



called a bad habit, and is, therefore, not a vice, but in some 

 cases it indicates an alteration of structure. 



A great many horses, perfectly quiet in other respects, 

 are vicious to clean, and this probably is the consequence of 

 great sensibility in the skin, and of maltreatment at some 

 time or other ; and although it may be gradually overcome 

 by kindness {x), yet, when it exists in such a degree as to 

 be dangerous, it is a vice. 



The same may be said of being vicious to shoe as where 

 a horse is vicious to clean, except that it is much less 

 common ; however, when it is dangerous to shoe such a 

 horse, he must be considered to have a vice {y). 



Horses perfectly white or cream-coloured have the iris 

 white and i\ie pupil red. When horses of other colours, 

 and they are usually pied ones, have a white iris and a 

 Uack pupil, they are said to be wall-eyed. Vulgar opinion 

 has decided that a wall-eyed horse is never subject to 

 blindness, but this seems altogether erroneous, as there 

 appears to be no difference of structure which can produce 

 this exemption (%). 



As to warhles see Saddle-galls (a). 



Warts are tumours of variable size, arising first from the 

 cuticle, and afterwards connected with the true skin by 

 means of the vessels which supply the growth of the 

 tumours. They are found sometimes on the eyelids, on 

 various parts of the skin, and on the prepuce (6). Unless, 

 however, they exist to such an extent as to impede any of 

 the natural functions, or in such a situation as to prevent a 

 saddle, bridle, or harness being put on a horse, they are 

 not unsoundness (c). 



For imter-farcy see Farcy (tf). 



Weak-foot often arises from disease, but in many in- 

 stances from the natural construction of the foot. In the 

 slanting of the crust from the coronet to the toe, an angle 

 is formed, amounting probably to not more than forty 

 instead of forty-five degrees ; and after the horse has been 

 worked for a year or two, the line, instead of being straight, 

 becomes a little indented or hollow midway between the 

 coronet and the toe. Horses with these feet can never 



{x) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," [a) Saddle-galls, ante, p. 91. 



338. (b) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," 



(y) See Lib. U. K. " The Horee," 381. 

 App. Ed. 1862, 521. (c) KiddellY. Burnard,9 M. feW. 



{z) See Lib. U. K. "The Horse," 670. 

 App. Ed. 1862, 93. {d) Farcy, ant«, p. 80. 



