CONTENTS 



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INTRODUCTION ........ i 



SECTION I 



OF THE HORSE, ITS DISEASES AND STRUCTURE 



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I. DISEASES OF THE HEAD, INCLUDING THE BRAIN, EARS, 



MOUTH, NOSTRILS, EYES, Etc. $ 



Megrims The Staggers, or Apoplexy Mad Staggers Rabies, 

 or Madness Tetanus, or Locked-Jaw Epilepsy, or Fits 

 Palsy Glanders Farcy Nasal Gleet Polypus Lampas 

 Strangles Canker and Wounds in the Mouth Diseases of 

 the Tongue ; Tongue Bladders ; Bitten Tongue ; Vives, or 

 Swellings in the Submaxillary Glands ; Barbs, or Paps; Gigs 

 Diseases of the Teeth Diseases of the Lips Diseases of 

 the Eye; Common Inflammation of the Eye; Ophthalmia; 

 The Haw ; Eruption on the Eyelids ; Warts ; Gutta Serena ; 

 General Blindness and Imperfect Vision Fracture of the 

 Skull. 



II. DISEASES OF THE NECK AND CONTIGUOUS PARTS . . 40 



Poll-Evil Roaring Obstruction of the Gullet Inflammation 

 of the Jugular Vein. 



III. DISEASES OF THE CHEST AND ITS CONTENTS . . .46 



Inflammation of the Lungs Pleurisy Fever Stomach-Stag- 

 gers Catarrh, or Common Cold Bronchitis Thick Wind 

 Broken Wind Chronic Cough Influenza, Epidemic 

 Catarrh, Distemper Fistulous Withers Warbles, Saddle- 

 Galls, Etc. 



IV. DISEASES OF THE ABDOMEN AND INTESTINES . . .68 



Inflammation of the Liver The Jaundice, or Yellows Hernia, 

 or Rupture Inflammation of the Kidneys Inflammation of 

 the Bladder Stone in the Bladder Diabetes Staling of 

 Blood Inflammation of the Bowels ; Inflammation of the 

 Mucous Membrane ; Spasmodic Colic ; Entanglement of the 

 Bowels ; Stones in the Intestines ; Intussusception of the 

 Intestines Intestinal Worms The Bots. 



V. DISORDERS OF THE EXTERNAL PARTS OF A HORSE . . 84 



The Fore Legs Sprain of the Shoulder Complaints and 

 Injuries of the Arm ; Fracture of the Elbow ; Enlargement 

 of the Elbow Complaints and Injuries of the Knee ; Broken 

 Knees Splent, or Splint Speedy Cut Knee-tied Sprain 

 of the Back Sinews Wind-Galls Rupture of the Suspen- 

 sory Ligament Grogginess Sprain of the Fetlock Cutting 

 of the Fetlock Sprain of the Coffin-Joint Ringbone 

 Ossification of the Back Sinew. 



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