CONTENTS, XV 



CHAPTER XX. 



DISEASES OF THE FEET 



I'AGE 



Founder or Inflammation of the Feet — Acute Founder — Chronic Founder 

 — Shoeing of Horses — The Pumiced Foot — Navicularthritis — Corns — 

 Thrush — Sandcrack — Foot pricked l)y a nail — Tread or Overreach — 

 Quittor — Canker — False Quarter 522 — 560 



OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS. 



The necessary Restraints employed on such occasions — The Trevis — 

 Casting — Slinging — Veterinary Obstetrics, or the necessary assistance 

 rendered in difficult Foaling — Embryotomy — Castration — By Cauteriza- 

 tion — The French method — By Ligature, &c. — Lithotomy — Tracheo- 

 tomy — Esophagotomy — Neurotomy — Periosteotomy — Division of the 

 Flexor Tendons — Amputations : Of the Penis — Docking — Firing — Blis- 

 tering — Rowelling — Setons — Blood-letting — By the Arteries — By the 

 Veins, or Phlebotomy — The Physicking of Horses — The Use and Abuse 

 of Purgatives — Diuretics 561 — 607 



THE VETERINARY MATERIA MEDICA . . . 009— 660 



