GENERAL INDEX, 



PART FIRST. 



Abnormal presentations, 611. 



Acidity of stomach, 534. 



Acute indigestion, 535. 



Adams, Dr., on bots, 516. 



Adaptation in domestic animals, 28. 



Adhesive plaster, a good, 572. 



Age, how to tell, 313. 



Ainaurosis, 586. 



Anasarca, 589. 



Ancltylosis of bones, 411. 



Arab horses, docility of, 27. 



Arnd horse, 242. 



Ascaris, 509. 



Ascaris mystax, 511. 



Ascites, 587. 



Attention in care of horse, 408. 



Azoturia, 524. 



Back, teaching to, 93, 119. 

 Back tendons, sprain of, 549. 

 Bad to bridle, 181. 

 Bad to shoe, 209. 



Confirmed in the habit, 215. 



Instances of, 213. 



Will not stand, 201 

 Balking, 193. 



Double, 202. 



Illustrations of, 206. 



Medicine, 196. 



Regular treatment, 198. 



Restless, 199. 



Best treatment, 205. 



Starting the balker, 196. 

 Balls, giving, 621. 

 Bellows Falls horse, 220. 

 Belly, dropsy of, 587. 

 Biting while grooming, 181. 

 Bit, " W," or breaking, 88. 



Four-ring, 94, 175. 



Half-moon, 97. 



Spoon, 98. 

 Bitting, 111. 



Bitting rig in training mouth, 110. 

 Bleeding, 626. 

 Blind Billy, 275. 

 Blinders, 255. 



A cause of injury, 256. 



When to use, 1*23. 



Representative cases, 258. 

 Blistering for spavin, 419. 

 Blisters, 613. 



Blood, circulation of, 401. 

 Bloody urine, 519. 

 Bog spavins, 428. 

 Bone, anchylosis of, 411. 



Caries of, 412. 

 ' Necrosis of, 413. 

 Bones of the feet, 331. 

 Bonner, Robert, eulogy on, 330. 

 Bony enlargement, 414. 

 Bots, 513. 



Bowels, inflammation of, 502. 

 Breaking a horse to lead, 101. 



Halter-pullers, 101. 

 Breaking bit, 88, 191. 

 Breaking down, 554. 



In breaking balkers, 105. 

 Breeding, 296. 



Care of the mare, 298. 

 Bridle, war, 81, 107. 



First form, 81. 



Details of its application, 82. 



Second form, 84. 



Double draw hitch form, 85. 



Secret of using, 87. 

 Bridle, patent, 99, 189, 206, 225. 

 Broken knees, 562. 

 Broken wind, 466. 

 Bronchitis, 478, 492. 

 Bronchocele, 471. 

 Brookville horse, 150. 

 Bruises, 548. 

 Bruise of the sole, 540. 



Of the cheeks, 575. 

 Burrs, use of, 254. 



Calks, 540. 



Serious case of, 542. 

 Canker, 547. 

 Capped hock, 430. 

 Care of mare in breeding, 298. 



In going round a horse, 239. 

 Carelessness in shoeing, results of, 536. 

 Caries of bone, 412. 



Of tooth, 322. 



Carrots, a good laxative, 308. 

 Cast in stall, 272. 

 Castration, 608. 

 Cataract, 586. 

 Catarrh, 453. 

 Cathartics, 625. 

 Catarrhal fever, 473. 



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