vi Contents. 



CHAPTER IV. 



GENERAL MANAGEMENT, ETC., OP THE HOESE. 



Stabling — Air and litter — Grooming — Dressing vicious horses — Exercise— Food — 

 Age — To save horses from fire — Method of administering medicines — Scalded 

 Shorts — Judging the character of horses by their color — Warrantees — Snow 

 bells on horses' feet — To manage a horse when fallen down 90-111. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE VICES AND DISAGREABLE OK DANGEROUS HABITS OF THE HORSE. 



Biting — Kicking — Running away — Crib-biting— Wind-sucking — Cutting — Not 

 lying down — To prevent rolling in the stall — Overreaching the clinking — Paw- 

 ing — Shying— Slipping the halter — Tripping — Horses jumping fences.. 111-121. 



CHAPTER VI. 



OPERATION, ETC., ETC. 



Setons— Bleeding — The pulse— Clysters — Tracheotomy — Physicking — Docking 

 — Nicking— Blaze or star — To spot a black horse with black spots— Description 

 of a skeleton of a horse — Getting the check of the bit into the mouth — Colts 

 chewing halters 121-134. 



CHAPTER VII. 



DISEASES OF THE BRAIN, RESPIRATORY ORGANS AND AIR PASSAGE8. 



Staggers — Megrims — Apoplexy — Phf intis or inflammation of the brain — Hydro- 

 phobia or madness— Influenza or horse-ail — Spasms of the larynx and laryngi- 

 tis — Pneumonia or inflammation of the lungs— Pleurisy — consumption — Stran- 

 gles or horse distemper — Bronchitis — Catarrh — Nasal gleet — Roaring — 

 Common cough — Chronic cough — Thick wind — Heaves or broken wind — 

 Blistering. 134-155 



CHAPTER VIII. 



DISEASES OP THE URINARY ORGANS, DIGESTIVE CAVITY, AND EYE. 



Inflammation of the kidneys— Inflammation of the bladder — Inflammation of 

 the stomach and bowels — Bots — Colic — Scours and constipation in young colts 

 — Diarrhoea — Indigestion — Inflammation of the eye — Locked jaw or tetanus — 

 Fever — Putrid fever— Hysteria in mares — Slobbering 155-172. 



CHAPTER IX. 



LAMENESS, DISEASE OP THE MOUTH, SKIN, HOOP, GENERALITIES, &C 



Spavin — Windgalls — Ringbone — Founder or acute rheumatism — Chronic found- 

 er — Cramp — Splent — Lameness — Elbow joint lameness — Toe crack — Swelled 

 legs— Scratches — Poultry lousiness — Hide bound — Glanders— Farcy — Poll evil 

 and Fistula Withers— List of Medicines— Receipts Tablo of Doses. 172-198. 



