624 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



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 Saccharine diabetes, diabetes mellitus, glycosura, or inoeuria, causes, symp- 

 toms, and treatment 139 



Sacrum, fractures, description and treatment 341 



St. Vitus dance, or chorea, description and treatment 227 



Salivation, or plyalism, description and treatment 61 



Sand-cracks of foot, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment 432 



Sarcocele, description and treatment 165 



Sarcophaga camaria, or flesh fly, note 481 



Sarcoptes, scabiei equi, animal parasite of skin 478 



Sarcoptic acariasis, description, symptoms, and treatment 478 



Scalds and bums, treatment 483, 496 



Scaly skin disease, or pitjTiasis, description and treatment 467 



Scapula, fracture, cause, symptoms, and treatment 344 



Scorpion and tarantula, treatment for sting or bite 483 



Scratches, or chaps on knee and hock, or cracked heels, causes and treatment. 467 



Screw-worm fly, or Lucilia hominivorax, note 481 



Scrotal or congenital hernia, cause, description, and treatment 82 



Scrotum, dropsy, or hydrocele, symptoms and treatment 166 



Sebaceous glands, description 460 



Self-abuse, or masturbation, remedy 168 



Serum, use against strangles and anthrax 531, 544 



Sesamoid bones, fracture, cause, symptoms, treatment, etc. . . . ._ 352 



Sesamoid sheath, inflammation, or navicular disease, description, symptoms, 



and treatment 435 



Sesamoids, description 395 



Sexual and urinary organs, examination 24 



Sheath- 

 calculus, or bilocular cavity, or preputial calculus, description and treat- 

 ment 1 63 



of flexor tendons, sprains, cause, symptoms, and treatnient 371 



penis, and abdomen, swelling, cause and treatment 171 



Shock, electric, description and treatment 246 



Shoe- 

 bar, uses 601 



detailed description 597 



hot fitting 600 



Shoeing — 



chapter by John W. Adams 583-605 



preliminary examination 594 



preparation of the hoof 596 



rubber pads 601 



Shoes, special peculiarities of chief classes 598 



Shoulder — 



joint, displacement, description and treatment 363 



lameness, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment 365 



Sick horse. See Horse, sick. 



Sidebones, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment 316, 438 



Silage, use and danger as horse feed 56-57 



Sinuses, collection in, chronic catarrh, or nasal gleet, causes, symptoms, and 



treatment 99 



Sitfasts— 



horny sloughs, or sloughing callosities, description and treatment 475 



or harness galls, description and treatment 496 



Skin— 



and visible mucous membranes, may indicate disease 11 



animal parasites affecting, description of kinds 478 



bleeding eruptions, description and treatment 469 



congestion, red efflorescence, or erythema, description and treatment 461 



disease, scaly, or pityriasis, description and trestmont 467 



diseases, chapter by James Law 458-483 



grubs under, description and treatment 481 



hah-8, description 460 



inflammation and congestion, description of kinds 461 



nervous irritation, or pruritis, description and treatment 468 



of fetlock and ankle, note 397 



parasites 477-483 



