INDEX, 



585 



PON 



Pony, varieties of the, 103 



Porter, Sir R. Ker, his account of the Persian 



horse, 29 

 Portuguese horse, the, 43 

 Post, the first establishment of it, 78 

 Post-chaises, grasshopper springs would be ad- 

 vantageously adopted for, 567, 568 

 Postea spinatus muscle, description of the, 342 

 Potash, the compound of, 493 

 Potatoes, considered as an article of food, 137 

 Poultices, their various compositions, manner of 



acting, and great use, 494 

 Powders, comparison between them and balls, 



494 

 Power of draught in the horse, illustrations of, 

 98; calculation of, 530 ; compared with that 

 of the human being, 534; compared with that 

 of a steam-engine on railways, 531; on com- 

 mon roads, 532; on bad roads, 532; depend- 

 ent on his weight and muscular force, 532 ; 

 how diminished when towing a boat on a 

 canal, 537; greater when close to his work, 

 537; this depends on his strength and tlie 

 time he can exert it, 538; the diminution of, 

 according to his speed, table of, 539 

 Pressure on the brain, effect of, 169 

 Priam's chariot, a description of, 555; he har- 

 nessed his own horses, 555 

 Prices of horses at different periods, 56, 58, 59, 



60 

 Prick in the foot, treatment of, 419; injurious 

 method of removing the horn in searching for, 

 421 

 Prussian horse, account of the, 53 

 Puffing the glims, a trick of fraudulent horse- 

 dealers, 146 

 Pulling, the action of, explained, 534 

 Pulse, the natural standard of the, 304 ; varieties 

 of the, 304; importance of attention to the, 

 198, 304; the most convenient place to feel 

 it, 304; the finger on the pulse during the 

 bleeding, 305 

 Pumiced feet, description and treatment of, 405; 

 do not admit of cure, 406 ; constitute un- 

 soundness, 521 

 Pupil of the eye, description of the, 163; mode 



of discovering blindness in it, 164 

 Purchase, to complete the, there must be a me- 

 morandum, or payment of some sum, how- 

 ever small, 523 

 Purgatives, 328 



Purging, violent treatment of, 325 

 Purpura hoemorrhagica, 309 



QUARTERS of the horse, description of the, 

 381; importance of their muscularity and 

 depth, 382; foot, description of, 395; the 

 inner, crust thinner and weaker at, 395; folly 

 of lowering the crust, 397 



Quidding the foot, cause of, 513; unsoundness 

 while it lasts, 521 



Quinine, the sulphate of, 480 



Quittor, the nature and treatment of, 4 1 7 ; the 

 treatment often long and difiicult, exercising 

 the patience both of the practitioner and 

 owner, 419; its unsoundness, 521 



ROA 



RABIES, symptoms of, 175 

 Race-courses, different lengths of, 74 

 Races, early, mere running on train scent, 6-1 ; 

 frequent cruelly of, 73, 77; different kinds 

 of, described, 74; regular, first established at 

 Chester and Stamford, 63; regulations for, 

 established by James I., 64 ; patronised by 

 Charles I., 64; Persian, description of, 29; 

 the great length of the old courses, 74; con- 

 sequences of the introduction of short races, 

 74, 75; the different lengths that are run, 

 75; the races at Smithfield, 57 

 Race-horse, his history, 66; form, 68; action, 



73; emulation, 76 

 Racks, no openings should be allowed above 



them, 123 

 Radius, description of the, 364; fracture of the, 



450 

 Ragged-hipped, what, 382; no impediment to 



action, 382 

 Railways, mechanical advantageof, 98, 556 ; they 

 immensely increase the power of the horse, 572 

 Rearing, a dangerous and inveterate habit, 509 

 Recti muscles, of the neck, description of, 238 

 Rectum, description of the, 317, 318 

 Reins, description of the proper, 2 1 7 

 Resin, its use in veterinary practice, 494 

 Resistance in draught, observations on, 538 

 Respiration, description of the mechanism and 



effect off, 255 

 Respiratory organs, anatomy and diseases of, 



254; nerves, the, 153 

 Restiveness, a bad habit, and never cured, 502; 

 anecdotes in proof of its inveterateuess, 502, 

 503 

 Retina, description of the, 165 

 Retractor muscle of the eye, description of it, 166 

 Rheumatism, nature and treatment of, 309, 310, 



311 

 Ribbed-home, advantage of being, 248 

 Ribs, anatomy of the, 245, 246 

 Richard Coeur-de-Lion, account of his Arabian 



horses, 58 

 Richmond, Duke of, his method of breeding good 



carriage horses, 100 

 Riding, directions for, 88 

 Ringbone, the nature and treatment of, 380; 



constitutes unsoundness, 522 

 Ringworm, nature and treatment of, 353 

 Roach-backed, what, 250 



Roads, how affected by different wheels, 560; 

 how influencing the proper breadth of the 

 wheels, 570; the great extent to which they 

 affect the draught, 571; soft and yielding, 

 far more disadvantageous than rough ones, 

 571; slight alterations in their level advan- 

 tageous, 571; hardness, the grand desider- 

 atum in, 571; should be nearly flat, 571 ; 

 necessity of constant repairs and attention to 

 them, 572; calculation of the degree by which 

 the resistance is increased by had ones, 572 

 Roan horses, account of, 346 

 Roaring, the nature of, 268; curious history of, 

 269; constitutes unsoundness, 519 ; from 

 tight-reining, 270; from buckling in crib- 

 biting, 270; treatment of, 272 



