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CHAPTER VI 



DRIVING AND HARNESS 



Draught : Theory and Practice Whiffle Trees Poles Loads Overloading Driving Whips Reins 

 Hints on Tandem and Four-in-Hand Driving Runaways Notes on Treatment of Pullers 

 Teaching Horse to allow Rein to be placed under Tail Types of Harmless Horses Types of 

 Vehicles Anatomy of Shoulders Collars Sore Shoulders Harness Cruppers Harnessing- 

 up Harness Injuries Bridles Blinkers Bits Halters Training Gear Care of Harness . 63 



CHAPTER VII 



RIDING AND SADDLES 



Anatomy of Horse's Back Backs Pressure Saddling Saddles Fitting Saddlery Saddle Blanket 

 Girths Saddling-up Sore Backs : Prevention and Cure Cure of Galls Seats Hands Treat- 

 ment of Refusers Spurs On Ladies Riding Astride Paces Conformation of Saddle Horse 

 Curb Bits Port Curb Chains Martingales Cold Bits 76 



CHAPTER VIII 



STABLE CONSTRUCTION AND THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM 



Circulatory System Respiratory System Ventilators Stable Impurities Horse Urine Light 

 Roof Walls Doors and Windows Coach-houses Drainage Damp Sanitation Heating 

 Precautions against Fire Improvements to Old Stables Stalls and Boxes Mangers Water 

 Troughs The Loft Tying up Horses Slings 91 



CHAPTER IX 



SURGICAL DISEASES, LAMENESS, TEETH AND CONFORMATION 



Lameness Structure of Bone Histology of Bone Sprains External Applications for Sprains Ex- 

 ternal Counter-irritants Blistering Firing Massaging Diet when Suffering from Sprains 

 Throwing a Horse for Operation Detection of Lameness Surgical Ailments : Sprains of Liga- 

 ments, Joints and Tendons, and their Symptoms and Treatment Splint Bone Spavin Ringbone 

 Sidebone Sore Shins Navicular Disease Quittor Bog Spavin Thoroughpin Enlarge- 

 ments caused by Serous Effusion Capped Hock Capped Elbow Contusions and Bruises 

 Brushing Speedy Cut Over-reach Broken Knees Open Joints Fistulous Withers Burns- 

 Frost Bites Snake Bites and Stings Lightning and Electric Shocks Fractures Dislocations 

 Stable Vices The Horse's Teeth How to Examine Teeth Table of Incisors Age of Horses 

 Photographing Horses Conformation of the Horse Structural Examination Colour Natural 

 Marks 100 



CHAPTER X 



PHARMACOPOEIA AND USES OF MEDICINES 



The Theory of Medicine Notes on the Use of Drugs Methods of Administering Drugs Hypodermic 

 Injections Use of Trocar and Cannula Passing the Catheter Poultices Dosage Pharma- 

 copoeia Strength of Drugs Useful Compounds to keep in Stock Incompatability of Drugs 

 Poisons and their Antidotes Apparatus Kept in a Veterinary Pharmacy Use of Purgatives 

 Table of Weights and Measures Glossary and Therapeutical Classification of Drugs . . . 123 



