vi Contents. 



CHAPTER IV. 



GENERAL MANAPEMENT, ETC., OF THE HORSE. 



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 OR 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 1'21-134, 



CHAPTER VII. 



DISEASES OF THE BRAIN, RESPIRATORY ORGANS AND AIE PASSAGES. 



Staggers— Megrims— Apoplexy— Phrintis 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 1.^4-155 



CHAPTER VIII. 



DISEASES OF 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 155-17'2. 



CHAPTER IX. 



LAMENESS, DISEASE OF THE MOUTH, SKIN, HOOF, GENERALITIES, i&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 Table of Doses. 172-198. 



