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INDEX. 



Sensation, nerves of, supplied to the 

 lips, 290. 



Servants' rooms in sta,bles, 174. 



Seton needles, description of, 438. 



Setons, insertion of. 438. 



Shakspeare, 601, 602. 



Shaving. 193. 



Sheaths, inflamed tendinous, 314. 



Sherman, by Justin Morgan, 606. 



Shoe, clenches for the, 200 ; removal 

 of the, 199; dilferent shapes of the, 

 428. 



Shoeing, 421 et seq. ; pricks in, 415. 



Shoulder, the, 21; strain of the, 317; 

 lotion for galled, 461. 



Shouldering, the habit of, 245. 



Shying, management of, 243. 



Sidebone, 300. 



Side line, the, 433. 



Sinews, strains of the back, 319. 



Singeing, 192; lamp for, 193. 



Sire and dam, relative influence of, 

 110, 617; condition of, in breeding, 

 629. 



Sir Henry (thorough-bred), 604. 



Sir Peter, 508, 601. 



Sir Tatton Sykes (English thorough- 

 bred), 63, 75. 



Sir Walter Scott (pacer). 608. 



Sitfasts, 391. 



Size, importance of, in the stallion, 

 617. 



Skeleton of the horse, the, 250. 



Skin, the organ of touch, 290 ; medi- 

 cines for disordered state of the, 447. 



Skull, fractures of the, 310. 



Sleojjy staggers (see Apoplexy), 380. 



Smuggler, 609 ; history of, 53.3 ; race 

 at Cleveland, 534; pedigree of, 640. 



Soiling, 223. 



Sole, the, 293 ; bruises of the, 416. 



Sontag, 609. 



Sore-throat, 350 ; catarrhal, 327. 



Sovereign (imp.), 103. 



Soundness, importance of, in sire and 

 dam, 107, 617. 



Soundness, laws of, 464. 



South American horse, the, 45. 



Spasm of the diaphragm, 348. 



SpasmocTic colic, 361. 



Spavin, bog, 313; bone, 302; remedy 

 for, 454. 



Speed, of the Arab horse, 37 ; import- 

 ance of, in the stallion, 617 ; of the 

 trotter, 624. 



Spinal column, the, 252. 



Spinal cord, the source of the power to 

 move, 626. 



Spine, injury of the, causing paralysis, 

 380 ; fractures of the, 310. 



Spleen, the, 283. 



Splints, 298 ; remedy for, 454. 



Sprains, 477. 



St. Julien, description of, 546 ; history 

 of, 546 ; trot against time, 548. 



St. Lawrence, 605. 



Stable management, 177; vices, 202. 



Stables, 165. 



Stafford, tamed by Rarey, 128, 130. 



Staggers, mad, 375 ; sleepy, 380 ; stom- 

 ach, 353, 487 ; remedy for, 452. 



Stallion, choosing a, for breeding pur- 

 poses, 617. 



Stalls, 157; iron fittings for, 172. 



Standing, attitude assumed in, 78. 



Starting the horse in his various paces, 

 modes of, 235. 



Stench traps, 164. 



Stifle joint, strain of the, 322. 



Stimulants, 462. 



Stings of insects, 392, 478. 



Stomach, the, 29, 282 ; medicines for 

 debility of, 448; staggers, 353, 487. 



Stomachics, 462. 



Stonewall Jackson, 525. 



Strains, 316; of the back-sinews, 319; 

 of the back and loins-, 31.6 ; of the 

 coffin-ioint, 318; of the hock, 322; 

 of the" fetlock, 318; of the hip-joint, 

 322 ; of the knee, 31 7 : of the shoul- 

 der, 317; of the stifle-joint, 322; 

 of the suspensory ligaments, 318, 

 319. 



Strangles, -351. 



Strangulation of the bowels, 364. 



Stride, in trotting, essential elements 

 of the, 624. 



String halt, 381. 



Stumbling, 246. 



Styptics, 462. 



Summering, 222. 



Sunstroke, 382, 485. 



Superpurgation, 363 ; remedy for, 449. 



Surfeit, 388. 



Surplice (English thorough-bred), 75. 



Suspensory ligaments, strain of the, 

 318. 



Sweating, object of, 208; the ordinary, 

 210. 



Swelled legs, 393. 



Syncope, 486. 



Synovial membrane, inflammation of 

 the, 313. 



Tacony, 515, 518; races with Lady 



Suffolk and Mac, 515, 516. 

 Tail, the, 255; of the thorough-bred 



race-horse, 76. 

 Tartary, the horses of, 43. 

 Teeth, the, 267; age of the horse as 



