CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XIX 



Pag* 

 VICES AND BAD HABITS 330 



Re?tiveness : Jumper the horse-breaker: King Pippin, anecdote of: Sullivan the 

 [rish whisperer: backing or gibbing: biting: getting the check of the bit into the 

 mouth: kicking: unsteadiness while being mounted: rearing: running away: 

 vicious to clean : vicious to shoe: swallowing without grinding: crib-biting: wind- 

 sucking: cutttng: not lying down: overreach: pawing: quidding: rolling: shying: 

 slipping the collar: tripping: weaving. 



CHAPTER XX. 



THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF THE HORSE 345 



Air: litter: light: grooming: exercise: food: manger-feeding: oats: barley: 

 grains: wheat: beans :»peas: grass: hay: tares: rye-grass: clover: lucern : saint- 

 /oin: Swedish turnip: carrots: potatoes: furze: nutritive matter in the different 

 articles of food : the times of feeding should be equally divided : water : manage- 

 ment of the feet 



CHAPTER XXI. 

 SOUNDNESS, 361 



The grand principle of : supposed causes of unsoundness : broken knees: capped 

 hecks: contraction: corns: cough: roaring: wheezing: whistling: high-blowing: 

 grunting: broken wind: crib-biting: curb : cutting: enlarged glands: enlarged hock: 

 the eyes: lameness: neurotomy: ossification of the lateral cartilages: pumiced 

 foot: quidding: quittor : ring-bone: sandcrack s spavin: blood spavin: splent: 

 stringhalt: thickening of the back sinews: thoroughpin: thrush: windgalls. Form 

 of warrantry: the horse must be unsound or vicious at the time of sale: no price 

 will imply a warranty: a warranty after the sale invalid: to complete the purchase 

 there must be a transfer, a memorandum, or partial payment: notice of unsoundness 

 not legally required, yet advisable: prudent to refrain from all medical treatment: 

 where no warranty, an action may be brought on the ground of fraud : exchanges 

 considered on the same ground as simple saks: the allowance of trial: laws of the 

 principal Repositories. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



THE SKIN, 369 



Hide bound: the hair: pores of the skin: moulting: clipping: colour of the 

 horse; surfeit: mange: warts. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



MEDICINES USED IN VETERINARY PRACTICE, 381 



Aloes: alteratives: alum: hartshorn: sal-ammoniac : anodynes: black antimo- 

 ny: emetic tartar: antimonial powder : butyr of antimony : antispasmodics : arsenic : 

 astringents: balls: blisters: bole-Armenian: Burgundy pitch : calamine: calomel; 

 camphor: cantharides : carraways: castor oil: catechu: caustics: chalk: camo- 

 mile: charcoal: charger: clysters: verdegris: blue vitriol: cordials: corrosive sub- 

 limate: cream of tartar: croton: diaphoretics: digestives: digitalis: diuretics: 

 drinks: elder : Kpsom-salts : fomentations: gentian: ginger: Goulard's extract : hel- 

 lebore: hemlock: infusions: iodine: gi'een vitriol: oil of juniper: lard: sugar of 

 lead: white lead: chloride of lime: liniments: linseed: lotions: mashes: mercurial 

 ointment: iElhiop's mineral: mint: myrrh: nitre: spirit of nitrous aether: oil ol 

 olives: opium: palm oil : pitch : physic': poultices: powders : raking: resin : rowels . 

 salt: sedatives: lunar caustic: chloride of soda: soap : starch : stoppings: sulphur. 

 tar; tinctures; tobacco; tonics; turpentine; vinegar: wax; white vitriol; zinc. 



