xiv CONTENTS. 



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Alse of coffin-bone. — Circular action of foot. — Use of 

 shoes. — Iron suitable for shoes. — Sole not to be pared. 

 — Ignorance of farriers. — Evils of chopping out the 

 heels. — Lowering the feet. — Shoe to rest on the crust. 

 — Shape and thickness of shoe. — Clinches. — Position of 

 nails. — Concave shoes. — ' Fitzwygrarn ' shoes. — The 

 'Charlier' system. — Tips. — Eoughing. — Patent hoof- 

 pads. — Calkins. — Over-reaching. — Cause of cutting and 

 prevention. — Bevelled shoes. — Inconvenience caused by 

 neglect of servants. — Inspection by farrier. — Shoeing- 

 pricks. — Price of shoeing. — Hot feet and remedy. — 

 Stopping. — Eecipe for stopping. — Thrush and treat- 

 ment. — Corns and treatment. — Shoeing with leather. — 

 Lameness. — Shoulder lameness. — Lameness in hock. — 

 From splint. — Of fetlock-joint.— Sandcrack and treat- 

 ment. — Hoof-ointment - 224 



PART IV. 



AILMENTS AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



CHAPTER XX. 



Mud-fever. — How to prevent mud-fever. — Cold and cough. 

 — Prevention of cold and cough. — Treatment for cold 

 and cough. — Strangles. — Treatment for strangles. — 

 Glanders and farcy. — Malignity of glanders. — 

 Difference between roaring and broken wind. — 

 Roaring and its causes. — Whistling. — New cure for 

 roaring. — Horses subject to roaring. — Broken wind. — 

 Treatment for broken wind. — Wind - sucking and 

 crib - biting. — Wind - sucking and crib - biting not 

 infectious. — Weaving. — String - halt. — Worms. — Cure 

 for worms. — Bots. — Eating bedding. — Muzzles. — Price 

 of muzzles. — Tearing clothing. — Prevention of tearing 

 clothing. — Kicking in stable. — Prevention of kicking in 

 stable. — Capped hock. — Treatment for capped hock. — 



