CONTENTS 7 



CHAPTER XIV 



FACTS OF GENERAL INTEREST 



The pulse — The temperature — The breathing — Physicking horses page 

 — Administering medicine to horses — BUstering and firing — 

 Fomentation — Feeding sick horses — Castration of colts — 

 HeaUng ointment — Wound lotion — Lotion for sore backs 

 and saddle gall — Tonic powders — Saline fever powders . 121 



CHAPTER XV 



ANATOMICAL OUTLINES OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE 

 HORSE 



The skeleton — The muscular system — The internal structure ol 

 a horse — The respiratory system — The digestive system — 

 The urinary and genitive organs . . . . . 1 30 



CHAPTER XVI 



, SPECIFIC INFECTIVE DISEASES 



Catarrh — Chronic catarrh — Strangles — Influenza — Epizootic 

 celluUtis or "pink eye" — Glanders — Farcy or cutaneous 

 glanders — Anthrax — Tetanus — Joint-ill or arthritis in foals — 

 Rheumatism — Purpura — Infectious stomatitis — Tuberculosis 

 — Actinomycosis . . . . . . . .146 



CHAPTER XVII 



AFFECTIONS OF THE RESPIRATORY AND CIRCULATORY SYSTEMS 



Roaring — Thick wind — Broken wind — Chronic cough — Sore 

 throat — Pneumonia — Septic pneumonia — Formalin in pneu- 

 monia — Pleurisy — The heart and its functions . . .164 



CHAPTER XVIII 



SOME COMPLAINTS OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS 



Shear-mouth — The horse bee — Worms — CoHc — Diarrhoea and 



scour in foals — Lymphangitis or weed . , . . i73 



CHAPTER XIX 



SOME AFFECTIONS OF URINARY ORGANS 



Azoturia Diabetes or excessive urination . . . .180 



CHAPTER XX 



THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND SOME AFFECTIONS OF THE SAME 



Stringhalt — Shivering — Epilepsy or vertigo . . . .183 



