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INDEX. 



tion, 51 : beauties, 53: defects, 55; diseases, 

 blemishes, 56 : artificial, 57 ; small, con- 

 cealed, bovine, bordered, unequal, myopic, 

 hypermetropic, hollow, wall-eyed, fawn- 

 eyed, 55. 



Eyebrows, 47. 



£yelids, 61 ; thin eyelid, 54. 



F. 



Face. Situation, limits, anatomical base, 

 38 ; divisions, direction, width, 39 ; diseases 

 and blemishes, 40. 



False nostril, til. 



Fatigue. Definition, causes, 414. 



Farriery, 335. 



Faults, 33. 



Fetlock. Situation, limits, anatomical base, 

 290 ; mechanism, 290 ; form, width, 293 ; 

 thickness, direction, fineness, 294; diseases 

 and blemishes, 295 ; small, round horse with 

 light wrists, weak in the pins, 294 ; puffy, 

 295. 



Fici, 295. 



Figure, 403. 



Fissures, of the pastern, 309. 



Fistula, of the withers, 116; of the back 

 122 ; of the anus, 175 ; artificial, of the anus, 

 175. 



Fitness, 31. 



Flank. Situation, limits, anatomical base, 

 divisions, form, 162; extent, 163; move- 

 ments, 164; examination, 166; diseases, 

 blemishes, 167; hollow, cord, movable por- 

 tion, 162; hollow, corded, tucked up, grey- 

 hound, short, narrow, 163 ; horse which has 

 two fingers' width of flank, 164. 



Flea-bitten (coat), 781. 



Fly-specks, 789. 



Flying trot, .522. 



Foot. Definition, organization, 312; inter- 

 nal parts, cutaneous envelope, 318 ; difier- 

 ences between fore and hind, right and left, 

 321 : elasticity, 323 ; beauties, characters of 

 the unshod foot, 327 ; defects of volume, 

 proportion, 328 ; conformation, 329 ; equi- 

 librium, 332 ; quality of horn, 335 ; acci- 

 dents from shoeing, 335 ; diseases, 336 ; large, 

 small, 328 ; narrow, unequal, flat, 329 ; full, 

 pumiced, with bunions, 330; with high 

 heels, low heels, sloping heels, 331 ; outbow- 

 footed, cross-footed, crooked-footed, 332 ; 

 pincard, club-foot, 333; soft, dry, broken, 

 334 ; with weak heels, 335 ; accidents from 

 pricking, 335 ; compression by the nail, by 



the shoe, heated sole, burnt sole, excessive 

 paring, cuts from hoof-knife and butteris, 

 336 ; diseases of, 336. 



Force, moment of a, 12; horses of, 405; 

 of a horse, 405 ; of a muscle, 405. 



Forearm. Situation, limits, anatomical 

 base, form, 221; movements, length, 222; 

 width, 224 ; thickness, direction, 226 ; dis- 

 eases, blemishes, 227 ; muscularity, 224 ; 

 slender, 225. 



Forehead. Situation, limits, anatomical 

 base, width, 36 ; direction, peculiarities, dis 

 eases, blemishes, 38. 



Forelock, 110. 



Forging, 582. 



Founder, 338. 



Fox-nosed, 796. 



Fraying of the axilla, 147. 



Frog, 319; frog-stay, 319; median lacuna, 

 lateral lacuna, branches, 319 ; point, glomes 

 of, 320. 



Frosted, 63. 



Furrow of misery, 238. 



G. 



Gaits. Divisions, 472 ; diverse qualifica- 

 tions, 473 ; play of the members, 474 ; speed, 

 477 ; displacement of the centre of gravity, 

 478 ; reactions, 479 ; analysis, 479 ; systems 

 of notation, 490 ; synthetical study, 496 ; the 

 gaits in particular, 503 ; transitions between 

 the difi"erent gaits, 568 ; defects, 576. 



Gallop. Definition, 544 ; to the right, to the 

 left, 545 ; true, false, diagonal, lateral, 546 ; 

 disunited, 547; play of the members, 547; 

 number, nature, succession, duration of the 

 bases of support, 549 ; duration of the con- 

 tacts of the feet, and the projection, 549 ; 

 efibrt of the members, association of the 

 members, and attitudes of the body, 652 ; 

 transition from station and the walk, 555 ; 

 varieties and trails, 556 ; length of the 

 stride, speed, displacement of the centre of 

 gravity, 559 ; reactions, 561 ; conformation, 

 uses, 562. 



Gallop, slow. Definition, notation, 563; 

 trail, length of the stride, 565. 



Garniture (edge of the shoe projecting be- 

 yond the wall), .328. 



Gelding, 178. 



General causes of vices, 882; bad edu- 

 cation, 883 ; excessive impressionability, 

 883 ; interference with habits already ac- 

 quired, 883 ; insanity, 885 ; pain, 884 ; phys- 



