CONTENTS. y^ 



CHAPTER XIX 



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 VICES AND BAD HABITS 330 



Restiveness: Jumper the horse-breaker : King Pippin, anecdote of: Sullivan the 

 Irish whisperer: backing or gibbing: biting: getting the check of the bit into the 

 mouth: kicking: unsteadiness while being mounted: rearing: running away: 

 vicious to clean : vicious to shoe: swallowing without grinding: crib-biting: wind- 

 sucking: cutting: not lying down : overreach: pawing: quidding: rolling: shying; 

 slipping the collar : tripping: weaving. 



CHAPTER XX. 



THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OP THE HORSE, . 345 



Air: litter: light: grooming: exercise: food: manger-feeding: oats: barley: 

 grains: wheat: beans: peas: grass: hay: tares: rye-grass: clover: lucern: saint- 

 foin: Swedish turnip: carrots: potatoes: furze: nutritive matter in the difierent 

 articles of food : the times of feeding should be equally divided : water : manage- 

 ment of the feet 



CHAPTER XXI. 



SOUNDNESS, 361 



The grand principle of : supposed causes of unsoundness: broken knees : capped 

 hocks: contraction: corns: cough: roaring: wheezing: whistling: high-blowing- 

 grunting : broken wind : crib-biting : curb : cutting : enlarged glands : enlarged hock : 

 the eyes : lameness : neurotomy : ossification of the lateral cartilages : pumiced 

 foot: quidding: quittor : ring-bone: sandcrack : spavin: blood spavin: splent: 

 elringhalt: thickening of the back sinews: thoroughpin: thrush: windgalls. Form 

 of warrantry : the horse must be unsound or vicious at the time of sale : no price 

 will imply a warranty : a warranty after the sale invalid ; to complete the purchase 

 there must be a transfer, a memorandum, or partial payment : notice of unsoundness 

 not legally required, yet advisable: prudent to refrain from all medical treatment: 

 where no warranty, an action may be brought on the ground of fraud : exchanges 

 considered on the same ground as simple sales : the allowance of trial : laws of the 

 principal Repositories. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



THE SKIN, 369 



Hide bound: the hair: pores of the skin: moulting: clipping: colour of the 

 horse: surfeit: mange: warts. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



MEDICINES USED IN VETERINARY PRACTICE, 381 



Aloes: alteratives: alum: hartshorn: .«al-ammoniac : anodynes: black antimo- 

 ny: emetic tartar: antimonial powder : butyr of antimony : antispasmodics: arsenic : 

 a.'^tringenls : balls: blisters: bole-Armeniaa : Burgundy pitch : calamine: calomel, 

 camphor: cantharides : carraways: castor oil: catechu: caustics: chalk: camo- 

 mile: charcoal: charger: clysters: verdegris: blue vitriol: cordials: corrosive sub- 

 limate : cream of tartar: croton : diaphoretics: digestives: digitalis: diuretics: 

 drinks: elder : Epsom-salts : fomentations: gentian: ginger: Goulard's extract : hel- 

 lebore; hemlock: infusions: iodine: green vitriol: oil of juniper: lard: sugar ot 

 lead: white lead: chloride of lime: liniments: linseed: lotions: mashes: mercurial 

 ointment: ^thiop's mineral: mint: myrrh: nitre: spirit of nitrous aether: oil of 

 olives: opium; palm oil: pitch: physic: poultices: powders: raking: resin: rowels, 

 salt: sedatives: lunar caustic : chloride of soda: soap: starch: stoppings: sulphur. 

 lar; tinctures; tobacco; tonics; turpentine; vinegar; wax; white vitriol; zinc. 



