. Elements of hippology. Horses. 64 ELEMENTS OF HIPPOLOGY. consequence. He is not a good drill-horse, although he has very comfortable gaits and is kind and willing. The horse shown in Figure 45 is a saddle-horse "de ; His neck is thick at the base, but it is light at the crest and tapers nicely. He should be able to control it easily. A ewe-necked horse is one whose crest is concave. The nasal membranes should be smooth, moist, of uniform color, and of a bright appearance. Any dullness of these mem- branes, any discharge from the nostril, and any ulceration, or scars of old ulc
. Elements of hippology. Horses. 64 ELEMENTS OF HIPPOLOGY. consequence. He is not a good drill-horse, although he has very comfortable gaits and is kind and willing. The horse shown in Figure 45 is a saddle-horse "de ; His neck is thick at the base, but it is light at the crest and tapers nicely. He should be able to control it easily. A ewe-necked horse is one whose crest is concave. The nasal membranes should be smooth, moist, of uniform color, and of a bright appearance. Any dullness of these mem- branes, any discharge from the nostril, and any ulceration, or scars of old ulcers, should be viewed with gravest suspicion in examining a strange horse. Glanders is a highly conta- r- r~ gious disease of germ origin, incurable, and, in this latitude. i ju? usually fatal. It is, of all dis- eases incidental to the horse, the most malignant and the most to be dreaded. It is high- ly contagious to human beings also, and necessarily fatal to them. In dealing with a case of glanders, the greatest care should be taken to protect one's self from the germs. If the glanders germ attacks - &P the internal organs of the horse, the disease is known as glan- -- • (lers; but if it attacks the skin Figure 44.—An Overweighted Neck, or the vessels of the skin, the disease is called farcy. Glanders usually manifests itself by a clear, watery discharge from one nostril, lighter in color than in the case of a common cold. "A singular characteristic of glanders is that it generally attacks one nostril only, and that is the left one; only a few cases having. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Marshall, F. C. (Francis Cutler), 1867-; United States Military Academy. Dept. of Tactics. Kansas City : Hudson press
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