CONTENTS. 



I. On the Purchase of the Horse 13 



II. Care and Treatment Generally. On Grooms and Stables 22 



III. On Driving, for a Novice and Amateur 30 



IV. Management of a Runaway Horse 36 



V. Experience with Horses Injured by Abuse and Neglect... 39 



VI. Saddle-Horse 44 



VII. Control of Head and Neck 49 



VIII. To Mount, Ride, and Gait a Horse 52 



IX. To Leap your Horse 55 



X. How to Ride 57 



XI. Bridles and Bridling 60 



XII. Ladies Mounting, Seat, Riding, and Dismounting 66 



XIII. Diseases Incidental to Horse-Flesh How to Discover 



and Treat them, and so on 74 



XIV. Diseases of the Feet, and other Parts 77 



XV. Thumps 91 



XVI. Corns 92 



XVII. Wind-works. Heaves 94 



XVIII. Farcy 97 



XIX. Glanders 98 



XX. Ring-Bone 99 



XXI. Poll Evil, or Fistula 100 



XXII. Chronic Cough, etc 102 



XXIII. Eyes 104 



XXIV. Lampas and Wolf's Teeth 107 



XXV. Lung Fever 109 



XXVI. Colds or Catarrh, and Megrims in 



XXVII. Water 113 



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