CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Page. 



THE NECK, . . 1B2 



Description of the neck: the po.l-evil : proper form of the neck: the yplenius 

 muscle: neck should be muscular at the bottom: the complexus major . ewe-necked, 

 the muscles of the neck generally: arteries and veins of the neck . inflammation of 

 the vein after bleeding: the wind-pipe: the larynx: roaring: the oesophagus or 

 gullet. 



CHAPTER X. 

 THE CHEST— CONTENTS— DISEASES, 163 



The proper form of the chest : form of as much importance as capacity : deptli of 

 chest, importance of: ribbed home. Anatomy of the spine : the bones of the spine 

 connected by highly elastic substance : consequent case in riding : contrivances for 

 strength: broken-backed: comparison between the long and short-backed horse: 

 saddle-backed: weak-backed. The loins: should be broad and muscular. The 

 withers: advantage of high withers. The muscles of the back. Fistulous withers: 

 warbles: sitfasts: saddle-galLs. The ribs. The breast: muscles of the breast: 

 being all abroad. Cliest-founder : dropsical swellings between the fore-legs. Inside 

 of the chest, diaphrngm: the pleura: the mediastinum. The heart and its action : 

 inflammation of the heart. The arteries. The pulse : its standard numbei : when 

 quick, hard, small, weak, or oppressed : necessity of attending to the pulse. The 

 capillaries. Inflammation, an increased flow of blood to and through the part: local 

 and general: treatment of: cold or warm applications. Fever, or general increased 

 arterial action: pure fever: symptomatic fever: treatment. The veins: bog and 

 blood spavin. Bleeding: directions for : the fleam and lancet: bleeding places. The 

 lungs: description of: change of blood in passing through them: capacious che.st, 

 advantage of. Infl.ammation of the lungs: symptoms: causes: treatment: conse- 

 quences. Pleurisy. Catarrh, or common cold. Bronchitis. Catarrhal fever. The 

 malignant epidemic. Chronic cough. Thick-wind: broken-wind: the piper. 

 wheezer: whistler: highblower: grunter. 



CHAPTER XI. 



STOMACH AND INTESTINES— THEIR DISEASES, 197 



The diaphragm. The stomach : stomach staggers : inflammation : poison : hots. 

 The intestines: the mesentery, duodenum, jejunum, ileum, copcum, colon, rectum* 

 spasmodic colic: calculi: intussusception: entanglement: inflammation of the 

 bowels: over-purging: washy horses: worms: physicking: the best purgatives* 

 rupture. The liver: inflammation of the liver: jaundice. The spleen. The j'an 

 creas. The omentum. The kidneys: diuretic medicines, use and abuse of : inflam 

 niation of the kidney; profuse staling. The bladder: inflammation of the:ladder' 

 stone in the bladder. 



CHAPTER XII. 



PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING, 219 



Form, constitution, disease inherited : causes of deterioration of half-bred horses: 

 the mare of as much importance in breeding as the horse : shape of mare and horse : 

 breeding in and in: age at which the mare is capable of breeding: time of heat: 

 time of going with foal: management of mare with foal: when she has foaled, 

 weaning foal: treatment of foal: importance of good feeding: process of breaking 

 in begun from the period of weaning: actual breaking in : diflerent steps of: iieces- 

 si'.y of implicit obedience, yet not enforced by cruelty: breaking in for the road oi 

 chase: bitting the ( olt: saddling: castration. 



