INDEX. 



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VIN 

 quered, 510; to shoe, a bad habit that may 

 also be conquered, 510 

 Vine{;ar, its use in veterinary practice, 475 

 Vines, Mr., his use of the Spanish fly in glan- 

 ders, 481 

 Viper, account of the bite of, 498 

 Vision, tiieory of, 162 



Vitreous humour of the eye, account of the, 165 

 Vitriol, blue, use of, in veterinary practice, 484 



WAGGON horse, the, 100 

 Waggons, inferior hoises may be used in 

 tliem, compared with carts, 565 ; horses 

 drawing, not so fatigued as in carts, 565; 

 require fewer drivers, and are not so liable 

 to accidents, 565; with inferior roads and 

 ordinary horses preferable to carts, 565; with 

 large front wheels, advantage of, 564; par- 

 ticularly with two horses abreast, 564 ; reason 

 why they have more draught than two-wheeled 

 carts, 566 

 Walking, movement uf the legs in, 536: differ- 

 ent when drawing a load, 536 

 Wall-eyed horses, what, 163; whether they be- 

 come blind, 164 

 War-horse, description of the ancient, 58 

 Warranty, the form of a, 523 ; breach of, how 

 established, 523; no price will imply it, 523; 

 when there is none, the action must be 

 brought on ground of fraud, 523 

 Warts, method of gett'ng rid of, 357 

 Washy horses, description and treatment of, 327 

 Wasps, treatment of the sting of, 499 

 Water, generally given too sparingly, 138 ; 

 management of on a journey, 139 ; the ditFer- 

 ence in effect between hard and soft, 138; 

 spring principally injurious on account of its 

 coldness, 138; stomach of the horse, the, 317 

 Water farcy, nature and treatment of, 214 

 Water conveyance, smallness of power required 

 in, 548 ; resistance to, increases with the 

 square of the velocity, 549 ; power to be ex- 

 erted in, increases as the cube of the velocity, 

 549 

 Water-dropwort, poisonous, 499 

 Wax used in charges and plasters, 498 

 Weakness of the foot, what, 427 

 Weaving indicating an irritable temper, and no 



cure for it, 517 

 Weit'ht, calculation of the power of the horse to 



overcome, 98, 534, 538 

 Wellesley Arabian, account of the, 73 

 Welsh pony, description of the, 104 

 Wheat, considered as food for the horse, 133, 



137; inconvenience and danger of it, 133 

 Wheels, the principle on which they act ex- 

 plained, 527; effect of increasing the diame- 

 ter of the, 570; no record of the time of their 

 invention, 555 ; spoked, known to Homer, 

 555 ; little improvement of the principle of, 



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from the earliest times, 555; principle of, on 

 a level surface, 556 ; theory of the degree of 

 friction attending them, 557; friction of on 

 the axle, dependent on the material employed, 

 557; consideration of the various forms of, 

 559; dishing of, described, 560; advantages 

 of, 560; conical and flat, calculation between 

 the effects of, 565, 572; obliquely placed, ill 

 consequences of, 561 ; narrow and broad, 

 comparison between, 560 ; conical, strange 

 degree of friction and dragging with, 561; 

 travelling grindstones, 561; cylindrical, the 

 best form, 561 ; description of, and proper 

 rounding of the edges, 563; but influenced 

 by the state of the road, 563; hind, should 

 follow the precise track of the fore ones, 563; 

 considered as to their effect on the road, 563; 

 straddlers, description of, and their effect, 

 563; proper breadth of, in proportion to the 

 load, 564; with cast-iron naves, 564; size of, 

 564; advantage of large front ones, 564; 

 should have the spokes so arranged as to pre- 

 sent themselves against the greatest force, 568 

 Wheezer, unsound, 519 

 Whip, accustoming the colt to the, 115 

 Whipping, sound, cruelty of, 98 

 Whisperer, the, anecdotes of his power over the 



horse, 502 

 Whistler, unsound, 519 

 White Turk, account of the, 64 

 White lead, use of, 490; vitriol, its use in 



veterinary practice, 498 

 Wild horse, description of the, 34, 37 

 William the Conqueror, improvement effected in 



the English horse by him, 56 

 Wind, broken, nature and treatment of, 297; 

 galls, description and treatment of, 375 ; ditto, 

 unsoundness when they cause lameness, or 

 are likely to do so, 523; thick, nature and 

 treatment of, 296 

 Windpipe, description of the, 258; should be 



prominent and loose, 259 

 Wind-sucking, nature of, and remedy for, 512 

 Withers, description of the, 250; high, advantage 



of, 251 ; fistulous, treatment of, 252 

 Work of the horse, should not exceed six hours 



per diem, 539 

 Worms, different kinds, and treatment of, 331 

 Wounds in the feet, treatment of, 419 



VENOPHON, his account of the horse, 15 



YELLOWS, symptoms and treatment of the, 

 335 

 Yew, the leaves of, poisonous, 499 



ZINC, its use in medicine, 498 

 Zoological classification of the horse, 107 

 Zygomatic arch, reason of the strong construc- 

 tion of the, 147 

 Zygoraaticus muscle, description of the, 199 



