INDEX. 



465 



Power of the Iiorse, depends on the time 



he can exert his strength, 415 



Power of the horse, diminished accord- 

 ing to his speed, table of, 416, 417 

 Preparation of the foot for shoeing, 313 



Pressure on the brain, effect of, 101 



Priam's chariot, description of, 432 



Priam liarnesses his own liorses, 432 



Prices of horses, different periods, 23, 25, 26 

 Prick in the foot, treatment of, 303 



Prick in the foot, injurious method of 



removing the horn, searching for, 305 

 Profuse staling, cause and treatment of, 217 

 Puffing the glims, a i'raudulent trick, 67 

 Pulling, the action of, explained, 410 



Pulse, natural standard of the, 172 



Pulse, varieties of the, 173 



Pulse, importance of attention to the, 173 

 Pulse, most convenient place to feel the, 173 

 Pulse, to be watched during bleeding, 174 

 Pumiced feet, treatment of, 291 



Pumiced feet, do not admit of cure, 292 



Pumiced feet, constitute unsoundness, 364 

 Pupil of the eye, description of the, 93 



Pupil of the eye, mode of discovering 



blindness by the, 93 



Purchase, to complete the, there must be 

 a memorandum, or payment of a 

 sum, however small, 366 



Purging, violent, treatment of, 209 



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Quarters of the horse, description of the, 261 

 Quarters of the horse, importance of their 



muscularity and depth, 261 



Quarters of the foot, description of the, 280 

 Quarters of the foot, the inner, crust 



thinner and weaker at the, 2S1 



Quarter, folly of lowering the, 281 



Quidding the food, cause of, 342 



Quidding the food, unsoundness, 364 



Quittor, nature and treatment of, 302 



Quittor, treatment of, long and difficult, 



exercising the patience both of the 



practitioner and owner, 302 



Quittor, is unsoundness, 342 



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Rabies, symptoms of, 109 

 Races, early, mere running on train scent, 28 

 Races, frequent cruelty of, 49 

 Races, different kinds of, described, 50 

 Races, regular, first established at Ches- 

 ter and Stamford, 27 

 Races, retjulations for, established by 



James I., 23 

 Races, patronised by Charles I., 28 

 Races, Persian, description of, 17 

 Races, short, consequences of their in- 

 troduction, 49 

 Races, at Smithfield, 24 

 ilace-horse, history of the, 43 

 Race-horse, form and action of the, 44, 49 

 Race-horse, emulation of tlie, 49 

 Race-horse, whether exclusively of tor- 



eign breed, 44 

 *lacks, no openings shovM be allowed 



above tliem, 346 



FACE. 



Radius, description of tne, 236 



Ragged liipped, what, 256 



Ragged hip, no impediment to action, 257 

 Railways, mechanical advantage of, 38, 451 

 Railways, comparison of horse and me- 

 chanical power on, 405 

 Railways, description of, 451 

 Railways increase the power of the horse 



tenfold, 452 



Raking, the operation of, 399 



Rat-tails, nature and treatment of, 275 



Rearing, dangerous and inveterate habit, 337 

 Recti muscles of the neck described, 156 

 Recti muscles of the thigh described, 258 

 Rectus muscle, description of the, 258 



Rectum, description of the, 203, 205 



Reducing speed and prolonging exertion, 



advantage of, in horse labour, 415 



Refraction of light, the theory of, 96 



Refractive power of the eye, account of, 97 

 Reins, description of tlie proper, 132 



Repositories, account of the principal, in 



London, and their regulations, 369 

 Resin, its use in veterinary practice, 399 



Resistance in draught, principally occa- 

 sioned by the ruts, 441 

 Respiration, description of the mechan- 

 ism and effect of, 181 

 Respiratory nerves, 76 

 Restifness, a bad habit, never cured, 330 

 Restifness, anecdotes in proof of its in- 



veterateness, 331 



Retina, description of the, 93, 95 



Retractor muscle of the eye described, 99 

 Ribbed-home, advantage of being, 164 



Ribs, anatomy of the, 169 



Richard Coeur de Lion, account of his 



Arabian horses, 24 



Richmond's, Duke of, method of breed- • 



ing good carriage-horses, 39 



Richmond, Duke of, anecdote of the, 54 



Riding, directions for, 31 



Ringbone, nature and treatment of, 254, 255 

 Ringbone, constitutes unsoundness,. 365 

 Roacli-backed, what, 166 



Roads, how affected by different wheels, 441 

 Roads, how influencing proper breadth 



of the wheels, 440 



Roads, the great extent to which they 



affect the draught, 449 



Roads, soft and yielding, far more dis- 

 advantageous than rough ones, 450 

 Roads, slight alterations in their level 



advantageous, 450 



Roads, hardness in, the desideratum, 450 

 Roads, should be nearly flat, 450 



Riiads, much curvature in, absurd, 450 



Ruads, necessity of constant attention 



and repairs to, 451 



Roads, calculation of the degree of re- 

 sistance increased by bad, 451 

 Roan horses, account of, 376 

 Roaring, the nature of, 160 

 Roaring, constitutes unsoundness, 362 

 Roaring, proceeding from inflammation, 160 

 Roaring, proceeding from tight reining, 160 

 Roarine-, proceeding from buckling iu 



crib-biting, 161 



