INDEX. 591 



Fage. 



Feces, impaction of rectum 170 



Feet, interfering, causes, symptoms, and treatment 37;^ 



Femur, fracture, cause, symptoms, and treatment 323 



Fetlock— 



and ankle skin, note 371 



and foot bone^, description 369 



ankle, and foot, diseases, chapter by A. A. Holcombe 369-430 



joint, description 370 



knuckling, causes, symptoms, and treatment 347 



sprain, causes, symptoms, and treatment 376 



Fetus — 



adherent to walls of womb, description, cause, and treatment 171 



excessive size 171 



general dropsy, description and treatment 1 73 



or foal, prolonged retention, cause and treatment 1 60 



swelling with gas, or emphysema, description and treatment 173 



tumors, or inclosed ovum, description and treatment 174 



Fever, description, causes, and treatment 493-498 



Fibrous bands constricting and crossing neck of womb, description and treat- 

 ment . .: 170 



Fibrous constriction of vagina or vulva, cause and treatment 171 



Filarla — 



coyyuncllnr, parasite of eye 273 



equina, parasite of eye 273 



hsemorrhagica, thread worn\ causing skin disease 441 



irritans, parasite causing summer sores, description and treatment 442 



multipapillosa, threadworm causing bleeding skin eruptions 441 



palpehrnlu, parasite of eye 273 



Fistulas, causes, symptoms, and treatment 477-481 



Fits, falling, or epilepsy, symptoms and treatment 207 



Fh.tfoot, description 372 



Flatulent colic, cause, symptoms, and treatment 57 



Flea, or pulex, prevention and treatment of bite 454 



Flesh fly {Sarcophaga camuria), note 453 



Flexor — 



metatarsis, rupture, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment 352 



pedis perforans, description 371 



pedis perforatus, descrii)tion 371 



tendons or their sheath, and suspensory ligaments, sprains, cause, symp- 

 toms, and treatment '•^'^^ 



Flies, method of attacking horses, jirevention and treatment for bite 453 



Flooding, or bleeding from womb, treatment 184 



Flyblow, or grubs in skin, description and treatment 453 



Foal- 

 contractions of miiscles, description and treatment 173 



monstrosities, description oi kinds, causes, and treatment 174 



natural presentation 1*'"* 



prolonged retention, cause and treatment 1 '»0 



water in head, or hydrocephalus, description and treatment 1 < 2 



Foals, newborn, cyanosis affecting, description --l^ 



Food- 

 kinds to give •'" 



mustv and moldv, effect on digestive organs 38 



41 



prejiaralion ^ 



