INDEX. 619 
Saddlery, care of, 280. 
Saddle airer, 209; brackets, 210; prices 
of patent, 211; method of drying, 
210; girths, 284; horse of iron, 210; 
remarks on, 282. 
St. Bel’s measurement of Eclipse, 69. 
Sale of horses, remarks on, 601. 
Saliva, composition of the, 429. 
Sulivary glands, anatomy of, 429. 
Sallenders, symptoms of, 529; treat- 
ment of, 2b, 
Salt as food, 233. 
Sand for bedding, 241. 
Sanderack, nature of, 535; treatment 
of, 2A. 
Sainfoin for soiling, 230. 
Saunterer, portrait of, 85, 
Sawdust for bedding, 241. 
Scaphoides, os, 339. 
Seapula, the, 334. 
Scapulo-humeral articulation, 334 ; view 
of, 365. 
Scapula, profile view of, 385; treatment 
of fracture of, 466. 
Schindylesis, 353. 
Scripture, the horse of, 1. 
Seat in riding, directions for, 289. 
Secretion, physiology of, 428. 
Sedatives, action of, 595; recipes for, 7b. 
Seedy toe, nature and treatment of, 
543. 
Selling of horses, remarks on, 601. 
Sensation, nerves of, supplied to the 
lips, 447. 
Sesamoideal ligament, the long inferior, 
872; superior, 2b. ; the short inferior 
ligament, 871. 
Sesamoidea, ossa, 323. 
Setons, insertion of, 576; remarks on, 7. 
Seton needles, description of, 576; 
view of, 20. 
Shaving, 250. 
Shetland pony, the, 108; portrait of 
the, 109. 
Shoe, Bracy Clark’s hinged, 561; Mr. 
Goodwin’s improvement on the 
French, 7b.; nailing on of, 566; 
remarks on the hind, ib.; selection 
of, by the, smith, 564; the bar, 
563; the common English, 555: the 
concave-seated, 556; the French, 
559; the half-moon, 562; the mode 
of fitting, 565; the patten, 564; the 
racing or plate, 563; the, recom- 
mended by Mr. Spooner, 557; the 
tip, 563; Turner's unilateral, 562; 
view of hind, 567, 568; view of the 
bar, 563 ; view of the concave-seated, 
556; view of the French, 560; view 
of the, used in hunting, 558. 
Shoes, list of varieties of, 564-5; modes 
of roughing, 569; patent machine- 
made, 2).; view of patent machine- 
made, 570; White’s mode of rough- 
ing, 569. 
Shoeing, leather sole used in, 564; 
pricks in, 649; remarks on, 553. 
Shouldering, the bad habit, 299. 
Shoulder joint, the, 364; profile view 
of, 365, 
Shoulder, oblique, of the horse, 9; re- 
marks on strain of, 471; symptoms 
of strain of 472; treatment for strain 
of, 2b.; upright, of the horse, 9. 
Shying, management of, 298. 
Sidebone, nature of, 456 ; symptoms of, 
457; treatment of, ib. 
Side line, description and use of, 573. 
Singeing, 249 ; lamp for, 250. 
Sitfasts, treatment of, 529. 
Size, increase of, in horses, 72. 
Skeleton, the, 307; chief divisions of 
the, 309; in general, the, 307; num- 
ber of bones composing the, 309; 
the artificial, 309; view of the artili- 
cial, 308. 
Skin, anatomy of the, 446; hairy ap- 
pendages of the, 447; papille of the, 
446; the organ of touch, 447. 
Skuil, treatment of fracture of, 466. 
Sleepy staggers, 521. 
Smell, anatomy of the organ of, 244. 
Snaffle, the chain, 286; the double 
mouth-pieced, 285; the double ring, 
286; the double-jointed, 286; the 
gag, 2b.; the unjointed, 2b.; the plain, 
285; the twisted, 2b. 
Sole, anatomy of the, 450; the leather 
for shoeing, 564; treatment of bruise 
of, 550. 
Soiling, clover for, 230; furze for, 2b. ; 
gorse for, 7b.; green food for, 2.; 
green oats for, 7b.; lucerne for, 7b. ; 
remarks on, 274; rye-grass for, 230; 
sainfoin for, ib. ; tares for, 7b.; vetches 
for, 7b.; whins for, ib. 
Sore-throat, treatment of catarrhal, 480; 
treatment of, 498. 
Soundness, remarks on the law of, 601. 
South American horse, the, 27. 
Spanish horse, the, 44. 
Spasm of the diaphragm, symptoms of, 
496; treatment of, 2b. 
Spavin, nature of boy, 468; nature of 
bone, 459; symptoms of bone, 7.; 
treatment of bone, 460; view of bone, 
459, 
Speed of the Arab horse, 20. 
Spinal column, bones composing the, 
310. 
Spinal cord, anatomy of the, 439; view 
of, 441. 
Spine, injury of the, causing paralysis, 
522. 
Spleen, anatomy, of the, 435; function 
of, 2b.; view of, 430. 
Splint, definition of, 454; symptoms of, 
ib.; treatment of, 455; view of, ib. 
Spurs, use of in riding, 291. 
Standing, attitude assumed by horses 
in, 1/20: 
Stables, 186; accessories, prices of, 
117; adamantine clinkers for floors 
of, 195; a gangway bail for, 205; 
