580 



INDEX. 



airing new, 176; number of stalls in, 

 157; plan of for three or four horses, 

 176; proper temperature of, 200; 

 racks for, 170; servants' rooms of, 

 174; situation of, 155; stalls and 

 loose boxes of, 157; the travis, 169; 

 ventilation of, 165 ; ventilating win- 

 dows in, 162; walls, lining of, 173; 

 water pipes for, 165; water supply 

 of, 165; windows for, 162. 

 Stafford, tamed by Rarey, 128, 130, 131. 

 Staggers, mad, nature and symptoms 

 of, 375; mad, treatment of, 375; 

 sleepy, 380; stomach, nature, and 

 symptoms of, 353 ; stomach, treat- 

 ment of, 354 ; remedy for, 453. 

 Stallion, choosing a, for breeding pur- 

 poses, 486 ; importance of a good 

 pedigree in, 486 ; of soundness in, 

 486 ; of size of r 486 ; of color of, 486. 

 Stallions, list of, imported into Ame- 

 rica, 461. 



Stalls, 157 ; iron fittings for, 172. 

 Standing, attitude assumed in, 78. 

 Strangulation of the bowels, nature and 



symptoms of, 364. 

 Starting the horse in his various paces, 



modes of, 235. 

 Stench traps, 164. 



Stifle joint, symptoms of strain of the, 



322; treatment of strain of the, 322. 



Stimulants, action of, 459; recipes for, 



459. 



Stings of insects, treatment of, 392. 

 Stomach, anatomy of the, 282 ; medi- 

 cines for debility of, 449; small, 29; 

 staggers, 353. 

 Stomachics, action of, 460 ; recipes for, 



460. 



Stonewall Jackson (trotter), 505. 

 Strains, nature of, 316; of the back 

 sinews, symptoms of, 319 ; of the back 

 sinews, remarks on, 319; of the back 

 sinews, treatment of, 320 ; of the back 

 and loins, nature and symptoms, 316 ; 

 of the back and loins, treatment of, 

 316 ; of the coffin-joint, remarks on, 

 318 ; of the coffin-jo.int, treatment of, 

 318; of the hock, symptoms of, 322; 

 of the hock, treatment of, 322; of the 

 fetlock, remarks on, 318 ; of the fet- 

 lock, treatment of the, 318 ; of the 

 hip-joint, symptoms of, 322; of the 



hip-joint, treatment of, 322; of the 

 knee, symptoms of, 317; of the knee, 

 treatment of, 315; of the shoulder, 

 symptoms of, 317; of the shoulder, 

 treatment of, 317; of the stifle-joint, 

 symptoms of, 322; of the stifle- 

 joint, treatment of, 322; of the sus- 

 pensory ligaments, symptoms of, 

 318; of the suspensory ligaments, 

 treatment of, 319. 



Strangles, symptoms of, 351 ; treatment 

 of, 351. 



Stride, in trotting, essential elements 

 of the, 495. 



String halt, nature and causes of, 381. 



Structure of bone, 248. 



Stumbling, management of, 246. 



SummeriHg, 222. 



Sunstroke, nature of, 382; treatment 

 of, 382, 



Superpurgation, symptoms of, 363 ; 

 treatment of, 363; remedy for, 449. 



Surfeit, nature and symptoms of, 388; 

 treatment of, 388. 



Surplice (English thorough-bred), 75. 



Suspensory ligaments, strain f the, 

 symptoms of, 318; strain of the, 

 treatment of, 319. 



Sweat, mode of giving the ordinary, 

 210. 



Sweating, object of, 208; the ordinary, 

 210. 



Swelled legs, inflammatory, treatment 

 of, 393; ordinary, nature and symp- 

 toms of, 393; ordinary, treatment of, 

 393. 



Synovial membrane, nature and treat- 

 ment of acute inflammation of, 313; 

 nature and treatment of rheumatic 

 inflammation of, 313 ; diseases of, 

 312. 



TACKEY (pacer), 483. 



Tacony (trotter), 505. 



Tail, anatomy of the, 255 ; of the tho- 

 rough-bred race horse, 76. 



Tartary, the horses of, 43. 



Tattler (trotter), 483, 504. 



Teeth, after nine years, 264; at nine 

 years. 264 : at about the eighth year, 

 263 ; at the end of the first year, 258 ; 

 bishoping of, 264 ; composition of, 



