TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. EARLY HISTORY OF THE HORSE ... 1 



II. FOREIGN BREEDS OF HORSES 16 



III HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH HORSE 53 



IV. DIFFERENT BREEDS OF ENGLISH HORSES . . . . 66 



V.THE ZOOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE HORSE . . IOC 



VI. THE SENSORIAL FUNCTION 109 



VII. INJURIES AND DISEASES OF THE SKULLTHE BRAIN THE 



EARS AND THE EYES 13fi 



VIII. ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF THE NOSE AND MOUTH . 1C9 



IX. ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF THE NECK AND NEIGHBOUR- 



ING PARTS 210 



X. THE CHEST 221 



XL CONTENTS OF THE CHEST 231 



XII. THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM 250 



XIII. THE ABDOMEN AND ITS CONTENTS 285 



XIV. DISEASES OF THE INTESTINES 298 



XV. BREEDING ; CASTRATION 317 



XVI. THE FORE LEGS 325 



XVII. THE HIND LEGS 353 



XVIII. THE FOOT v . . 372 



