INDEX. 597 



Knee — Continued. p 

 or hock, chaps, scratches, or cracked heels, description, causes, and treat- 

 ment 443 



Knees, sprung, cause, symptoms, and treatment 348 



Knuckling — 



of fetlock, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment 347 



or cocked ankles, description, causes, and treatment 374 



Labor pains, premature, cause and treatment 166 



Lachrymal apparatus of eye — 



description 254 



obstruction, or watering eye, description and remedy 261 



Lameness — 



definition ; physiology and description 279 



how to detect the seat 283 



how to discover 280 



its causes and treatment, chapter by A. A. Liautard 274-368 



of hip, description, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment 344 



of shoulder, descrij^tion, causes, symptoms, and treatment 340 



Laminse, sensitive, description 372 



Laminitis, or founder. {See Founder, or laminitis. ) 



Lampas, description and treatment 44 



Laryngismus paralyticus, or roaring, description and treatment 117, 210 



Laryngitis, or sore throat, description, symptoms and treatment 112 



Larynx, spasms, description and treatment 116 



Law, James — 



chapter on "Diseases of the eye" 251-273 



chapter on ' ' Diseases of the generative organs " 142-189 



chapter on "Diseases of the skin" 431-458 



chapter on ' ' Diseases of the urinary organs " 75-103 



Lead poisoning, or plumbism, causes, symptoms, and treatment 223 



Leptus amerieanus, or harvest bug, animal parasite of skin 452 



Leucorrhea, description and treatment 188 



Liautard, A., chapter on "Lameness: Its causes and treatment" 274-368 



Lice, or pediculi, description and treatment for bite 454 



Ligament — 



suspensory, description 370 



suspensory, rupture, description, symptoms, and treatment 377 



Ligaments — 



description and functions 278 



suspensory, sprains, causes, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment 345 



Limbs — 



hind, cramp, cause and treatment 159 



perineum, and abdomen, dropsy, description and treatment 159 



Linseed, ground, value as laxative 40 



Liver — 



diseases, remarks 71 



inflammation, or hepatitis, symptoms, causes, and treatment 72 



rupture, causes, symptoms, and treatment 73 



Lockjaw, or tetanus, causes, symptoms, prevention, and treatment 219 



Locomotor ataxia, or incoordination of movement, description 209 



Loins, sprains, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment 367 



Ludlia ciesar, or bluebottle, and L. hominivorax, or screwworm fly, note 453 



