574 INDEX. 



Hoof, shape and make of, 439 i due elevation of, 44 ; brittle, 441. 

 489 ; and upright, 4G1 ; of preparing for the shoe, 505. See 

 Foot, Tread. 



Horn, of hoof, how formed, 339. 441.448; process, 452 ; varies 

 in elasticity, 489 ; contraction, 50G ; 



Horse (the dead) eulogy on his post-last services, 15 ; skeleton of, 

 its uses, 20 — 24 ; speedy, suffer most in the lungs, 209; tender, 

 246. 268 ; horse milliners instructed, 22G. 316. 325 ; pre- 

 cautions on purchasing, 543 ; French mode of buying, ib. ; 

 English notions of a good one, 545; trimming the heels, oc- 

 casions grease, 389. 392; French horses heavy forehand, 386; 

 greasy heels and white feeet correspondent, 391 ; cause of dis- 

 tress, 404 ; does not engender rabies, 431 ; powers misapplied, 

 440. 



Humours (the), definition of 305. 331 ; but being vitiated, originate 

 all disease, 150. 152. 308-12; further proofs, 315. 331. 335. 

 definitively, 343. 345. 348. 367- 561 ; occasion cough, 221. 352. 

 those of the eye, 556. See Condition. 



Hydrophobia, dog madness, cause of, 429 ; true definition of, see 

 Rabies ; list of writers on 436 ; mistakes concerning, 203 ; how 

 disseminated, 204 ; incurable 427 > water, a preventive, 429 ; 

 not a true test of rabies, ib. 431, 432. 



I and J. 



Jaundice, cause of 151. 280; symptoms, &c. 281. See Yellows. 



Inflammation, constant tendency to, 7« 108. 111. 135. 171 ; in- 

 creased, 138 ; critical, 171 ; of the liver, 151 ; of the kidneys, 

 284 ; the prevalent disease of horses, 250 ; of intestines and 

 stomach compared, 249 ; causes of, 252. 267 ; compared with 

 colic, 253 ; and reproduced by it, 266; of various organs, 269, 

 270. See Bowels, Kidneys, Lungs. 



Inoculation for strangles, 358 ; for glanders, 370, 376. 



Intestines, the large first appear on dissection, 14 ; physiology of 

 the, 135 — 145 ; functions, how lost, 139 ; pain, comparison of, 

 249. 303. See Inflammatinn. 



Joints, stiff, 78. 313. See Anchylosis — rotten, how occasioned, 120. 



Irritating mixture, 327. 



K. 



Kidneys, structure of, 152-9; connected with the liver, 146. 154; 



torpor of, 153. 389 ; affected by rabies, 432 ; inflammation of, 



284 ; causes, 285—288 ; affected, mistaken for colic, 269, 270 ; 



for the bladder, 284. 

 Knowledge of the functions of life indispensable to practitioners, 10. 



12. 83. 114. 141 ; neglect of it, dishonest, 16. 84. 

 Knuckle-over, a disorder of birth, 44. 



