Advice to purchasers of horses : being a short and familiar treatise on the exterior conformation of the horse, the nature of soundness and unsoundness, the laws relating to sale and warranty, with copious directions for discovering unsoundnesses prior to purchasing / by J. Stewart.

  • Stewart, J., veterinary surgeon.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Advice to purchasers of horses : being a short and familiar treatise on the exterior conformation of the horse, the nature of soundness and unsoundness, the laws relating to sale and warranty, with copious directions for discovering unsoundnesses prior to purchasing / by J. Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obstructing them, produces a noise, varying in character according to the seat, and degree of the disease. The obstruction is rarely so great as to produce any noise in the breathing while the animal is at perfect rest. He should therefore be mount- ed, and get a gallop, either up hill, or in deep ground, or sufficiently far on any ground, to in- crease the breathing; and if the examiner does not ride, himself, he should stand close to the horse as he comes in, that the unnatural noise, if there be any, may be the more readily heard. When the dealer wants to conceal the noise of roaring, &c., he takes the horse out a considerable dis- tance before putting him to the gallop; and in returning he slackens the pace, so that the breathing may become tranquil before the horse reaches the examiner. This is called the long trot. Roaring of all kinds constitutes unsoundness. Immediately after the horse has been gallop- ped, notice should be taken whether the acceler- ation in the breathing be greater than it usually is by the same exertion in a healthy horse: for, if the lungs are diseased, the breathing will be more or less la])orious. Some allowance,