CONTENTS. XV 



CHAPTER XXV. 

 Poisoning in Horses 576 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



Nursing : 



The sick box — Clothing — Feeding sick horses — Laxative food — 

 Nourishing food — Water — Salt — Grooming — Exercise . . . 590 



CHAPTER XXVH. 

 Veterinary Medicines 594 



CHAPTER XXVHI. 

 Administration of Medicines : 



Different methods and respective proportions of medicines— By the 

 mouth — By the rectum— By subcutaneous (hypodermic) injection — ■ 

 By the windpipe — By puncture into the large intestine — By a vein — 

 By the skin — By the mucous membrane and cornea .... 627 



CHAPTER XXIX. 

 Operations : 



Backraking — Bandaging — Bleeding — Blistering — Casting a horse^ 

 Castration — Catheter, Passing the — Chloroform, Giving — Control, 

 horse — Docking horses — Firing — Fomenting — Hand-rubbing and 

 massage — Killing a horse — Neurotomy — Periosteotomy — Pulse, 

 Feeling the — Puncture of the intestine — Setons — Slinging — Steam- 

 ing the nostrils — Sutures^Thermometer, Clinical — Tourniquet and 

 Esmarch bandage — Tracheotomy — Trephining — Twitching . . 638 



CHAPTER XXX. 



Soundness : 



Differences of opinion as to soundness — Definition of unsoundness — 

 Practical soundness — Modifying circumstances — Duties of veterinary 

 surgeons when examining horses — Certificates — Price — Special war- 

 ranty — Vices and blemishes — Absolute unsoundnesses — Defects which 

 are not necessarily unsoundness — -Hereditary unsoundness . . 694 



CHAPTER XXXI. 

 Examining for Soundness 710 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



Shoeing : 



Necessity for shoeing — Growth of the hoof — Mechanism of the horse's 

 foot — Weight-bearing surfaces of the foot — Form of the healthy foot 

 — Preparation of the foot— The shoe — Nail holes — Fitting the shoe 

 — Putting on the shoe . . . . . . . . .718 



