GENERAL INDEX. 



Action, various kinds of, 41. 

 , good, 41. 

 , low, 42. 

 „ , high, 43. 



, extensive, 45. 

 , confined, 45. 

 , precise, 46. 

 , irregular, 46. 

 Age of horses, 47. 

 „ , general appearances indica- 

 tive of, 54. 

 Agents, sale by, 153. 

 Amaurosis (or paralysis of optic 



nerve), 79. 

 Auctions, horse, 171. 



Back and loins, 113. 

 Blindness, 80. 

 Bog-spavin, 124. 

 Bone-spavin, 116. 

 Broken wind, 129. 

 Buying at fairs, 178. 



Cankbr, 105. 



Capped-hock, 120. 



Cart horse, 23. 



Cataract, 77. 



Causes of unsoundness, 74 ; amau- 

 rosis, 79 ; blindness, 80 ; cata- 

 ract, 77 ; contraction of feet, 

 107 ; corns, 109 ; cutting or 

 brushing, 92 ; curb, 121 ; the 

 eyes, 76 ; ophthalmia, 76 ; shy- 

 ing, 82. 



Colour of horses, 60. 



Condition of horses, 61. 



Contracted feet, 107. 



Corns, logj 



Curb, 121. 



Cutting or brushing, 92. 



Dealers, tricks of, 56. 



Elbow, point of, 88. 



External conformation of horse, 



I ; the arms, 12 ; the back, 8 ; 

 the barrel, 10 ; cannon, see 

 shank ; the chest, 6 ; the croup, 

 9 ; the elbow, 13 ; the fetlocks, 

 16 ; the foot, 17 ; the fore-limbs, 



I I ; the gaskin, 20 ; the hind- 

 limbs, 19 ; the hocks, 20 ; the 

 knee, 14 ; the loin, 8 ; the neck, 

 4 ; the pasterns, 16; the quarters, 

 9; the shank (or cannon), 15 ; 

 the withers, 6. 



Eye, diseases of, 76-82. 



Fairs, purchases at, 178. 

 False quarter, 104. 

 Fetlock, 97. 

 Flat sole, no. 

 Foot, 99. 

 Fore-arm, 89. 



General appearances as indica- 

 tive of age, 59. 



General hints relating to buying, 

 140. 



Grunting, 131. 



Hackney, the, 31. 

 Harness horse, the, 31. 

 Haunch, the, 114. 

 Hints relating to selling, 146, 

 Hock, the, 115. 



