American Veterinary Review, 
JUNE, 1880. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
STUDY ON CRIBBING-CAUSES-MEANS OF PRE¬ 
VENTION AND CURE, 
By M. Ch. MAETIN. 
Cribbing is a vicious habit consisting, in the horse, in an ab¬ 
normal inspiration of air , which is always followed by ingurgi¬ 
tation and frequently by the swallowing of that gaseous fluid. 
This vice impairs the functions of digestion and nutrition, often 
producing colic and emaciation in the affected animal, and by 
seriously diminishing his power of continued labor, depreciates 
his value while forming the habit, and renders him wholly worth¬ 
less when it has become confirmed and established. 
The horse cribs with or without taking a point of rest, but 
what characterizes essentially the vice, is the noise, or eructa¬ 
tion produced by the shock of the air against the walls of the 
pharynx at the time of aspiration. 
