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INDEX. 



Barnacles, use of the, as a mode of re- 

 straint, 431. 



Bar-shoe, description and use of, 426. 



Barrel, proper shape of the, in the hunter, 

 81. 



Bars, description and office of the, 374 ; 

 proper paring of, for shoeing, 376 ; folly 

 of cutting them away, 375 ; removal of, a 

 cause of contraction, 375 ; corns, ib. 



Basiliccn ointment, 500. 



Bay horses, description of, 481 ; Malton, 

 account of him, 68. 



Beans, good for hardly worked horses, and 

 that have a tendency to purge, 467, 471 ; 

 should always be crushed, 46'8. 



Bearing-rein, the use and abuse of, 1 90. 



Beet, the nutritive matter in, 471. 



Belladonna, extract of, 500. 



Berners, Juliana, authoress of the first 

 book on hunting, 83. 



Bible, history of the horse in the, 2. 



Biceps femoris, account of .the, 357. 



Bile, account of the, 296', 297. 



Birman horse, account of the, 32. 



Bishoping the teeth, description of, 200. 



Biting, a bad habit, and how usually ac- 

 quired. 445. 



Bit, the, often too sharp, 190 ; the ancient, 

 10 ; sometimes got into the mouth, 446. 



Bitting of the colt, 322. 



Black horses, description and character of, 

 99,481. 



Bladder, description of the, 314 ; inflam- 

 mation of, symptoms and treatment, 

 315 ; neck of, ib. ; stone in the, ib. 



Bleeding, best place for general, 248, 431 ; 

 directions for, 215, 248 ; from veins 

 rather than arteries, 214 ; finger should 

 be on the pulse during, ib. ; importance 

 of, in inflammation, ib. ; at the toe de- 

 scribed, 249; comparison between the 

 fleam and lancet, 248. 



Blindness, usual method of discovering, 

 131 ; discovered by the pupil not dilat- 

 ing or contracting, ib. ; of one eye, 131. 



Blistering all round at once, barbarity and 

 danger of, 433,501 ; after firing, absurd- 

 ity and cruelty of, 432-450. 



Blisters, best composition of, 432 ; the 

 different kinds and uses of, ib. ; best mode 

 of applying, ib. ; caution with regard to 

 their application, 432 ; the principle 

 of their action, 500; use of, in in- 

 flammation, 432 ; comparison between 

 them and rowels and setons, 437. 



Blood, change in after bleeding, 249 ; 

 changes in during respiration, 236 ; 

 coagulation of, 248 ; horses, very subject 

 to contraction, 387 ; spavin, nature arid 

 treatment of, 247. 



Bloody urine, 314. 



Bog spavin, nature and treatment of, 247, 

 363. 



Boie- Armenian, medical use of, 501. 



Bone-spavin, nature and treatment of, 363. 



Bots in the stomach, natural history of, 

 288 : not usually injurious, 289. 



Bournou horse, description of the. 20. 



Bowels, inflammation of the, 301. 



Brain, description of the, 109, 118; its 

 cortical and cineritious cona position, 119; 

 the office of each, ib. ; compression of 

 the, 136 ; pressure on the, ib. ; inflam- 

 mation of the, 141. 



Bran, as food for the horse, 467. 



Breaking in should commence in the second 

 winter, 321 ; description of its various 

 stages, ib. ; necessity of gentleness and 

 patience in, 321, 322 ; of the farmer's 

 horse, 321 ; of the hunter or hackney, 

 320 ; the South American, 38 cruel 

 Arabian method of, 27. 



Breast, muscles of ths, 231. 



Breathing, the mechanism of, 236. 



Breeding, 91 ; as applied to the farmer's 

 horse, 91 ; qualities of the mare of as 

 much importance as those of the horse, 

 91, 317; the peculiarity of form and 

 constitution inherited, 317 ; in-and-in, 

 observations on, 319. 



Brewers' horses, account of them f 100 ; 

 portrait of one, ib. ; account of their 

 breed, 101. 



Bridle, the ancient, 10. 



Broken down, what, 342. 



Broken knees, treatment of, 486 ; method 

 of judging of the danger of, 486 ; when 

 healed, not unsoundness, but the form 

 and action of the horse should be care- 

 fully examined, 486. 



Broken wind, nature and treatment of, 276 ; 

 influenced much, and often caused by the 

 manner of feeding, 278 ; how distin- 

 guished from thick wind, ib. 



Bronchial tubes, description of the, 220. 



Bronchitis, nature and treatment of, 266. 



Bronchocele, account of, 258. 



Bronchotomy, the operation of, 219. 



Brood mare, description of the, 317 ; should 

 not be too old, ib. ; treatment of, after 

 covering, 319 ; after foaling, 320. 



Brown horses, description of, 481. 



Bryony, dangerous, 291. 



Buccinator muscle, description of the, 172. 



Bucephalus, account of, 9. 



Burleigh, Lord, his opinion of hunting, 83. 



Busbequius, his interesting account of the 

 Turkish horse, 36. 



CABBAGE, the nutritive matter in, 471. 

 Caecum, description of the, 295. 

 Calamine powder, account of, 517. 

 Calculi in the intestines, 305. 

 Calkins, advantages and disadvantages of, 



421 ; should be placed on both heels, ib. 

 Calmuck horse, description of the, 48. 

 Camphor, the medical use of, 501. 

 Canadian horse, description of the, 41. 

 Canals, advantages and disadvantages of, 



538; smallness of power requisite for 



the transmission of goods by them, 



538. 

 Canal-boat, calculation of the draught of, 



539 J the eass of draught of, might be in- 



