CONTENTS. vii 



Chapter XIX. 



Page 



VICES AND BAD HABITS . . 350 



Restiveness: Jumper the horse-breaker : King Pippin, anecdote of : Sullivan the 

 Irish whisperer : backing or gibbing : biting : getting the check of the bit into the 

 mouth: kicking: unsteadiness while being mounted: rearing: running away: 

 vicious to clean : vicious to shoe : swallowing without grinding : crib-biting: wind- 

 sucking : cutting : not lying down : overreach : pawing : quidding : rolling : shying: 

 shpping the collar : tripping : weaving. 



Chapter XX. 

 THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF THE HORSE 345 



Air : litter : light : grooming : exercise : food : manger-feeding : oats : barley : 

 grains : wheat : beans : peas : grass : hay : tares : rye-grass : clover : lucern : saint- 

 foin : Swedish turnip : carrots : potatoes : furze : nutritive matter in the different 

 articles of food : the times of feeding should be equally divided : water : manage- 

 ment of the feet. 



Chapter XXI. 



SOUNDNESS . . ,351 



The grand principle of : supposed causes of unsoundness : broken knees : capped 

 hocks: contraction: corns: cough: roaring: wheezing: whistling: high-blowing: 

 grunting : broken wind : crib-biting : curb : cutting : enlarged glands . enlarged hock : 

 the eyes : lameness : neurotomy : ossification of the lateral cartilages : pumiced 

 foot: quidding: quittor : ringbone: sandcrack : spavin: blood spajin : splent : 

 stringhalt : thickening of the back sinews : thoroughpin : thrush : windgalls. irorm 

 of warrantry : the horse must be unsound or vicious at the time of sale : no price 

 will imply a warranty : a warranty after the sale invalid : to complete the purchase 

 there must be a transfer, a memorandum, or partial payment : notice of unsound- 

 ness not legally required, yet advisable : prudent to refrain from all medical treat- 

 ment : where no warranty, an action may be brought on the ground of fraud : ex- 

 changes considered on the same ground as simple sales : the allowance of trial : 

 laws of the principal Repositories. 



Chapter XXI. 



THE SKIN ... 369 



Hide bound : the hair : pores of the skin : moulting : clipping : colour of the horse : 

 surfeit : mange : warts. 



Chapter XXII. 

 MEDICINES USED IN VETERINARY PRACTICE 381 



Aloes: alteratives: alum : hartshorn: sal-ammoniac : anodynes : black antimony: 

 emetic tartar: antimonial powder : butyr of antimony: antispasmodics: arsenic: 

 astringents: balls: blisters : bole -Armenian: burgundy pitch : calamine: calomel: 

 camphor: cantharides : carraways : castor oil: catechu : caustics : chalk: chamo- 

 mile : charcoal : charger : clysters : verdigris : blue vitriol : cordials : corrosive sub- 

 limate: cream of tartar : croton : diaphoretics: digestives: digitalis : diuretics : 

 drinks : elder : epsom-salts : fomentations : gentian : ginger : Goulard s extract : hel- 

 lebore : hemlock: infusions: iodine: green vitriol : oil of juniper: lard: sugar of 

 lead: white lead: chloride of lime: liniments: linseed: lotions: mashes: mercu- 

 rial ointment: .^Ethiop's mineral: mint: myrrh: nitre: spirit of nitrous sether : 

 oil of olives : opium: palm oil : pitch : physic: poultices : powders : raking . resin . 

 rowels: salt: sedatives: lunar caustic : chloride of soda : soap: starch: stoppings: 

 sulphur: tar: tinctures: tobacco: tonics: turpentine: vinegar; wax: white 



