CONTENTS. 



Chapter V. 



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ZOOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE HORSE 61 



Chapter VI. 

 THE EXTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE HORSE 63 



The head : frontal bones : frontal sinuses, used for the discovery of glanders : 

 the parietal : temporal : arched form of the skull : designed strength of the base of 

 the arch: occipital, attachment of the strong ligament of the neck to it: the 

 sphenoid and eethmoid ; the brain: medullary and cineritious portions: the nerves: 

 spinal cord : spinal nerves, consisting of fibres of sensation and motion, and others 

 devoted to respiration : the sympathetic or organic nerve, at the base of the skull, 

 devoted to nutrition and circulation. The ear, beauty of, indicative of temper, folly 

 of cropping or singeing: the internal ear; beautiful mechanism of, the drum, the 

 little bones, the expansion of the nerve. The eye; the lids, substitution for eye-brows, 

 eye-lashes, tears, situation of lachrymal gland : the haw, beautiful mechanism of it, 

 barbarous practice of destroying it : the conjunctiva: cornea, importance of its per- 

 fect transparency, directions for examining it : the sclerotica : choroid coat, its 

 black colour, the beautiful colour and use of the lucid carpet within the eye : the 

 aqueous humour : iris : wall-eyed horse : the pupil, importance likewise of carefully 

 examining it : the lens : vitreous humour : retina : theory of vision : shying : muscles 

 of the eye : the one peculiar to quadrupeds to retract it from danger. 



Chapter VII. 

 DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND EYE . 100 



Fracture of the skull: pressure on the brain: megrims: apoplexy: stomach- 

 staggers, arising usually from mismanagement: mad staggers: locked jaw, or 

 tetanus : epilepsy or fits : palsy : rabies or madness : neurotomy, method of per- 

 forming the operation, diseases of the foot for which beneficial. Diseases of the 

 eye : wounds : warts : enlargement of the haw : inflammation of the eye : opacities 

 of the cornea : cataract : gutta serena, or glass eye. 



Chapter VIII. 



THE NOSE AND MOUTH, AND THEIR DISEASES 117 



Anatomy of the nose : Roman noses : cartilage of the nose: turbinated bones: 

 wideness of nostril, advantage of: importance of observing the colour of the mem- 

 brane of the nose : discharge from the nose. Glanders, symptoms of, how distin- 

 guished from strangles or cold : primarily a disease of the membrane of the nose: 

 connected with farcy ; they are different forms of the same disease ; causes of con- 

 tagion : hot and foul stables : debilitating disease: highly contagious: prevention: 

 treatment. Farcy, a disease of the absorbents : farcy buds : symptoms : treatment. 

 The lips, the organs of touch : lips, how formed : bearing rein, necessity for : bones 

 of the mouth : the palate, method of bleeding from : lampas : the lower jaw, 

 curious mechanism of the joint of, contrived to grind the food. Teeth, their 

 growth and changes from the birth, as indicative of the age: wolves teeth : diseases 

 of the teeth. Description of the tongue : vesicles under the tongue: the salivary 

 glands: the parotid: the submaxillary and sublingual: strangles: canker in the 

 mouth : wounds in the mouth : description of the pharynx. 



