A Loose, Weak Neck

Horses so formed are extremely unpleasant to ride; they get their heads up, cannot see where they are going, and it is impossible to feel their mouths.

Twisted Fore-Legs

Horses with this defect, when put to work, hit the inside of the fetlock joint, and very often under the knee as well. Both are highly dangerous, as the parts soon become swelled and sore, from repeated blows, rendering the horse liable to fall.

Capped hocks are very unsightly, but seldom cause lameness.

Diseased eyes, from any cause, are sure to terminate in blindness.

Stringhalt

Catching up one or both the hind legs. When considerable, it renders the horse very unpleasant either to ride or drive.

All bony enlargements of the joints - viz., spavin, ringbone, sidebones, etc, as causing lameness, very difficult and doubtful of cure.

Laminitis, or inflammation of the laminae, generally resulting in pumiced or convex soles of the feet.

Corns, unless small, as if not properly treated, they are very troublesome, often causing temporary lameness, and rendering the horse cramped in his action, and liable to fall.

Chronic Cough

Frequently terminates in broken wind.

Megrims

An attack of giddiness, more or less violent, that frequently attacks some horses, rendering them for the time highly dangerous. Since condition has been better understood, and horses are fed more on manger food and do not have so much hay, megrims are not so common as formerly. Fast free horses are more liable to it than others. The cause is supposed to be determination of blood to the head.

Navicular Disease

Lameness in the navicular joint, and incurable.

An unnerved horse, as showing the horse's feet are diseased. Many unnerved horses will with care do a great deal of work either on the road or in the field. It is a merciful operation by which many horses can work and move about with ease and comfort, that must otherwise have been destroyed, or lived in pain and misery to the end of their days.

Roaring

A disease of the respiratory organs, causing the horse to make a noise when put to any exertion.

All enlargements of sinews and tendons, arising from breaking down or violent strains, unless the horse has been properly fired for them, and is intended only for light, easy work, when he may stand.

All horses that show any sort of vice, as rearing, kicking, running away, being restive, and shy badly, or are vicious in the stable. Such animals are highly dangerous to all, but particularly so to the inexperienced.