CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



PAGE 



TLe body of the horse anatomically considered . . .... 17 



CHAPTER- IL . 



Physic — The mode of administering it, and minor operations . . . fi3 



CHAPTER III. 

 Shoeing — Its origin, its uses, and its varieties 95 



CHAPTER IV. 

 The Teeth — Their natural growth, and the abuses to which they are liable. 133 



CHAPTER V. 



Food — The fittest time for feeding, and the kind of food which the horse 



naiurally consumes .......... 168 



CHAPTER VI. 

 The evils which are occasioned by modern stables 200 



CHAPTER VII. 

 The faults inseparable from most present erections which are used as stables. 233 



CHAPTER VIII. 



The so-called "incapacitating vices," which are the results of injury or of 



disease ............. 263 



CHAPTER IX. 

 Rtables as they should be 297 



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