INDEX. 



459 



of, 114, 116. 



114. 



363. 



363. 



appear. 



114. 



Eye, healthy appearance of the, 84. 



inflammation of, common, 113. 



, . specific, 113. 



. • causes, 115. 



, medical treatment 



untractable nature of, 



- consequences of, 116, 



- marks of recent, 115, 



- constitutes unsound- 



- Avhen most likely to 



- hereditary, 115. 



method and importance of examining 



it, 90. 



indicative of the temper, 84. 



the pit above, indicative of the age, 67. 



muscles of the, 98. 



wounds of the, 112. 



Eye-brows, substitute for, 85. 

 Eye4ashes, description of, 85. 



folly of singeing them, 86. 



Eye-lid, description of, 85, 86. 



Face, description of the, 117. 



. cut of the muscles, nerves, and 



bloodvessels of, 119, 



Falling in of the foot, what, 292. 



False quarter, nature and treatment of, 301. 



Farcy, a disease of the absorbents of the 

 skin, 128. 



connected with glanders, 128. 



both generated and infectious, 129. 



. symptoms of, 129. 



treatment of, 130. 



buds, what, 129, 



Farmer's horse, description of the, 33. 



not injured by draught, 33, 



— Series, a sketch of the object of 



the, 1. 



Feeding high, connected with grease, 279, 



regular periods of, necessity of at- 

 tending to, 104, 359. 



. manner of, has much influence on 



broken wind, 194. 



Feeling of the mouth, constant, indispen- 

 sable in the good rider, 31. 



Feet, good, importance of, in the hunter, 52. 



i the general management of, 360, 



attention to, and stopping at 



night, recommended, 360, 



Felt soles, description and use of, 319. 



Fetlock, description of the, 252. 



Fever, idiopatliic or pure, 177. 



symptoms of, 177. 



. symptomatic, 178, 



Fibula, the, description of the, 263, 



Finland horse, description of the, 20. 



Firing, mode of applying, 329. 



shoidd be in longitudinal or parallel 



Unes, 325, 



should not penetrate the skin, 324, 



absxirdity and cruelty of blistering 



Firing, horse should not be used for some 



months after, 324. 



advantage of over blistering, 325. 



Fistula lacrymalis, 87, 



in the poll, 152. 



Fistulous withers, treatment of, 168, 



Fits, symptoms, causes, and treatment of, 



108. 

 Fitzherbert, Sir A., his description of the 



horse, 27. 

 his the earliest treatise 



on agricuUvne, 27. 

 Flanders horse, description of the, 21, 42. 

 our heavy draught horses 



advantageously crossed with it, 21. 

 Flat roads more injurious to horses than 



those with slight inequalities, 417. 

 Fleam and lancet, comparison between, 180. 

 Flexor of the arm, description of the, 238. 

 metatarsi muscle, description of 



the, 264. 



pedis perforatus, the perforated 



muscle, description of the, 239, 264. 

 — pedis perforans, the perforating 



muscle, description of the, 239, 264. 

 Flying C'hilders, an accoimt of him, 45. 

 Foal, early treatment of, 223. 



early handling of, important, 223. 



importance of liberal feeding of. 



223. 



time for weaning, 223. 



Fomentations, theory and use of, 176, 392. 

 Food of the horse, observations on, 352, 

 — . a list of the articles of, 



354. 



should be apportioned 



to the work, 359, 

 Foot, description of the, 280, 



diseases of the, 289, 



canker in the, nature and treat- 



after, 325, 



ment of, 308, 



corns in the 



contracted 



false quarter of the 



founder of the, acute 



chronic 



305. 



292. 



301. 



289. 



292. 



inflammation of the ,, 289. 



navicular joint of the, disease in, na- 



ture and treatment of, 298, 



overreach of the, 



prick in the 



pumiced 



quittor in the 



sandcrack in the 



thrush in the 



tread on the 



• weakness of the 



wounds in the 



301. 

 303. 

 291. 

 ., 302. 



;, 299. 



307. 

 301. 

 309. 

 „ 303. 



Forehand, proper form of, 51. 

 Forehead, different form of, in the ox and 



horse, 72. 

 Fore-legs, description of, 227. 



diseases of the, 244. 



proper position of the, 255. 



Forge-water sometimes used, 394. 

 Forrester, an example of the emulation of 

 the horse, 49. 



