TABLE OP CONTENTS. XV 



CHAPTER XVin. 



PARTURITION. 



PAGE 



Natural Parturition. — ^11. Different Presentations. — III. Attention to the 

 Mother.— IV. Attention to the Foal.— V. Difficult Parturition in the 

 Mare and Cow Compared. — VI. Difficulties Due to the Mother. — VII. Dif- 

 ficulties Due to the Foal. — VIII. Obstetric Instruments. — IX. When the 

 Foa! !S Born Dead, or the After-Birth Retained. — X. The Umbilical Cord 

 of Foal. — XI. Various Presentations Illustrated. — XII. Various Positions 

 of the Foal. — XIII. Dorso-Lumbar Presentation. — ^XIV. Sterno-Abdom- 

 inal Presentation. — XV. Mechanism of Parturition. — XVT. Mechanism of 

 Parturition in the Anterior Vertebro-Sacral Position. — XVII. Mechanism 

 of Parturition in the Anterior Vertebro-Pubic Position. — XVIII. 

 Mechanism of Parturition in the Anterior Vertebro-Ilial Positions. — XIX. 

 Mechanism of Parturition in the Posterior Lumbo-Sacral Position. — ^XX. 

 Necessary Aid in Normal Parturition. — XXI. Spaying, or Castration of 

 the Mare 483 



CHAPTER XIX. 



DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF GENERATION. 



Of the Male: — I. Inflammation of the Testicles. — II. Hydrocele, or Dropsy 

 of the Scrotum. — III. Evil Results of Castration. — IV. Wounds of the 

 Penis. — V. Gonorrhoea. — VI. Phimosis and Paraphimosis. — VII. Mastur- 

 bation. 



Of the Female: — ^VIII. Parturition. — IX. Metritis, or Inflammation of the 

 Womb. — X. Inflammation of the Ovaries. — XI. Leucorrhoea. — XII. Puer- 

 peral Fever. — XIII. Mammitis. — XIV. Hysteria. — XV. Abortion 507 



CHAPTER XX. 



DISEASES OF THE LIVER. 



Congestion of the Liver. — II. Hepatitis, or Inflammation of the Liver 

 (Acute or Chronic). — III. Ceroma, or Fatty Degeneration. — IV. Cirrhosis, 

 or Fibrous Degeneration. — V. Jaundice, Icterus, or Yellows. — VI. Biliary 

 Calculi, or Gall Stones. — VII. Hypertrophy. — ^VIII. Atrophy. — IX. Soften- 

 ing, or Ramollissement, with Rupture 514 



CHAPTER XXL 



DISEASES OF THE EYE. 



Specific Ophthalmia, or Moon Blindness. — II. Simple Ophthalmia, or Con- 

 junctivitis. — in. Amaurosis, Gutta Serena, or Glass Eye. — IV. Glaucoma. 

 —V. Iritis. — VI. Lcucoma. — VII. Cataract. — VIII. Filaria Oculi, or 

 Worm in the Eye. — IX. Entropium. — ^X. Ectropium. — XI. Torn Eyelids. 

 XII. Cancerous Tumor in the Eye.— XIII. Obstruction of the Lachrymal 

 Duct 518 



CHAPTER XXII. 

 I. Intestinal Worms. — II. Bots. — III. Lice. — IV. Mange. — V. Ringworm 526 



PARASITIC DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



