CONTENTS. 



Chapter XIII. 



Page 



THE FORE-LEGS, AND THEIR DISEASES 227 



The shoulder : sprain of the shoulder : slanting direction of the shoulder, import- 

 ance of : how applicable to horses of heavy draught : muscle of the outside of the 

 shoulder : trapesius : levator humeri : serratus : sterno-maxillaris : spinati : pec- 

 torals : the lower bone of the shoulder : the arm : the elbow : principle of the lever 

 applied to it : the extensor muscles : the flexors : disadvantage at which they act : the 

 perforated muscle: the perforating: the arm should be long: the knee: broken 

 knees : the leg : splent : speedy-cut : tied in below the knee : sprain of the back 

 sinews: necessity of attention to any thickening on them : windgalls : the pasterns: 

 the suspensory ligaments : obliquity of the pastern : rupture of the suspensory liga- 

 ment : the fetlock : grogginess : cutting : bones of the pasterns : sprain of the cof- 

 fin-joint : ring-bone : position of the legs. 



Chapter XIV. 

 THE HINDER LIMBS AND THEIR DISEASES 256 



The haunch : being ragged-hipped : width of haunch: the thigh: muscles, of the 

 inside of the thigh : the sartorius : gracilis : muscles of the outside of the thigh : 

 the gluttei : great trochanter of the thigh, importance of : sprain of the round bone : 

 the stifle: the extensor pedis muscle: the peronseus: the flexor pedis: thorough- 

 pin: the hock: enlargement of the hock: curb: bog-spavin; bone-spavin: other 

 lameness of the hock : the point of the hock : capped hock : mallenders and sallen- 

 ders : cow-hocks : stringhalt : swelled legs : grease, cause and treatment of : washing 

 the heels : danger of cutting the hair from the heels. 



Chapter XV. 



THE ANATOMY OF THE FOOT . 280 



The crust or wall of the foot : the inner heel should not be too much cut away: 

 the coronary ligament : the coronary ring : the frog-band : the crust : colour 

 of: the bars: folly of destroying them: the frog : the sole : the coffin-bone : the 

 sensible sole : the sensible frog : the navicular bone : the cartilages of the foot. 



Chapter XVI. 



DISEASES OF THE FOOT . . 289 



Inflammation of the foot, or acute founder : pumiced feet : chronic founder : con- 

 traction : the navicular -joint disease : sand-crack : tread or over-reach : false-quar- 

 ter : quittor: prick, or wound in the foot: corns: thrush: canker: ossification of 

 the cartilages ; weakness of the foot. 



Chapter XVII. 



ON SHOEING • . ,311 



The concave seated shoe : preparation of the foot : putting on of the shoe : cal- 

 kins : clips: the hind-shoe: the hunting-shoe : the bar-shoe: tips: the expanding 

 shoe : felt or leather soles; 



Chapter XVIII. 

 OPERATIONS ... 320 



The trevis : the side-line : the hobbles : the twitch : the barnacles : bleeding : 



blistering: firing: setons : docking: nicking. 



