CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



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ZOOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE HORSE, .... ... 61 



CHAPTER VI. 

 EXTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE HORSE 63 



The head: frontal bones: frontal sinuses, used for the discovery of glanders : the 

 parietal : temporal : arched form of the skull : designed strength of the base of the 

 arch: occipital, attachment of the strong ligaments of the neck to it: the sphenoid 

 andrethmoid: the brain: medullary and cineritious portions: the nerves' spinal cord: 

 spinal nerves, consisting of fibres of sensation and motion, and others devoted to 

 respiration : the sympathetic or organic nerve, at the base of the skull, devoted to 

 nutrition and circulation. The ear, beauty of, indicative of temper, folly of crop- 

 ping or singeing; the internal ear: beautiful mechanism of, the drum, the little 

 bones, the e.vpansion of the nerve. The eye : the lids, substitution for eye-brows, 

 eye-lashes, tears, situation of the lachrymal gland : the haw, beautiful mechanism of 

 it, barbarous practice of destroying it : the conjunctiva: cornea, importance oi its 

 perfect tran.sparency, directions for examining it: the sclerotica: choroid coat, its 

 black colour, the beautiful colour and use of the lucid carpet within the eye : the 

 aqueous humour: iris: the wall-eyed horse: the pupil, importance likewise of care- 

 fully examining it: the lens: vitreous humour: retina: theory of vision: shying: 

 muscles of the eye : the one peculiar to quadrupeds to retract it from danger. 



CHAPTER VIL 

 DISEASES OP THE BRAIN AND EYE, 100 



Fracture of the skull : pressure on the brain ; megrims : apoplexy : stomach- 

 staggers, arising usually from mismanagement: mad staggers: locked jaw or teta- 

 nus: epilepsy or fits: palsy: rabies or madness : neurotomy, method of performing 

 the operation, diseases of the foot for which beneficial. Diseases of the eye : 

 wounds: warts: enlargement of the haw : inflammation of the eye: opacities of the 

 cornea : cataract : gutta serena, or glass eye. 



CHAPTER vin. 

 NOSE AND MOUTH, AND THEIR DISEASES, 117 



Anatomy of the nose: Roman nose: cartilage of the nose: turbinated bores: 

 wideness of the nostril, advantage of: importance of observing the colour of the 

 membrane of the nose : discharge from the nose. Glanders, symptoms of, how dis- 

 tinguished from strangles or cold : primarily a disease of the membrane of the no.se : 

 connected with farcy: they are different forms of the same disease: causes of conta- 

 gion : hot and foul stables: debilitating disease: highly contagious: preventior. : 

 treatment. Farcy, a disease of the absorbents: farcy buds: symptoms: treament. 

 The lips, the organs of touch: lips, how formed: bearing rein, necessity for: bones 

 of the mouth: the palate, method of bleeding from: lampas: the lower jaw, curi- 

 ous mechanism of the joint of, contrived to grind the food. Teeth, their growth and 

 changes from birth, as indicative of the age: wolves' teeth: diseases of the teeth 

 Description of the tongue: vesicles under the tongue: the salivary glands: the par- 

 otid: the submaxillary and sublingual : strangles: canker in the mouth : woum^s in 

 the mouth : description of the pharynx. 



