CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Chapter I. — The Stable as it is and as it ought to 



be. — Light. — Yentilation 1 



Chapter II. — The Treatment of Young Horses, etc. . 14 



•Chapter III. — "Work in the Stable 33 



Chapter IY. — Feeding 38 



Chapter Y. — Cough ; the Forerunner of Influenza. — 



History of Influenza 48 



Chapter YI. — Breeding : — The Hunter. — Splint. — 

 Overreach. — Thorn. — Stub. — The Carriage or 

 Coach Horse. — Broken Knees. — The Foot : Its 

 Description. — Laminitis. — Bleeding. — Navicular 

 Disease. — Corns. — Thrush. — ^Seedy Toe. — Canker. 

 — Sandcrack. — Quitter 78 



Chapter YII. — Shoeing. — Frosting or Eoughing the 



Horse 147 



Chapter YIII. — Kicking. — Cracked Heels. — Mud Fever 159 



Chapter IX. — Ilanunculacce, or Buttercup Poisoning. — 



Stomach Staggers 162 



Chapter X. — Diseases of Horses' Heads. — Megrims. — 

 Staggers or Apoplexy. — Mad Staggers or Brain 

 Fever. — Darnel Poisoning. — Babies or Madness. — 

 Tetanus or Lock-Jaw. — Glanders. — Farcy — Nasal 

 Gleet. — Strangles. — Canker in the Mouth . • . 173 



Chapter XI. — Diseases of the Teeth of Horses . . . 218 



