CONTENTS. 13 



CHAPTER XLIV. 

 GIVING MEDICINE. 



Medicine best in balls — Dimon's Spavin Cure — Dinion's Colic Remedy 



— Dinion's Black Oil — Liniments — Ointment — Salve — Dimon's 

 Liniments — Dimon's Condition powders — Dimon's Leg-wash, . . 345 



SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES. 



The Pulse — The Ears — Membrane of the nose — Eyes — Mouth — 

 Breathing — Skin — Flanks — Drooping of the head — Lying down 



— Pointing with nose and foot, . 348 



CHAPTER XLV. 

 HORSE AILMENTS AND HOW TO DOCTOR THEM. 



Bone Spavin — Bronchitis — Brittle Hoof — Blindness — Blistering — 

 Bots — Cataracts — Contraction of Hoof — Colic — Capped Hock — 

 Curbs — Cough — Corns — Distemper — Diarrhoea — Drying the 

 Sweat — Fever — Fistula — Founder — Fits — Galls — Glanders, . 351 



CHAPTER XL VI. 

 HORSE AILMENTS AND HOW TO DOCTOR THEM- Continued. 



Heaves — Inflammations — Indigestion — Lameness — Lampas — Lung 

 Fever — Lice — Locked Jaw — Mange — Proud Flesh — Pleuro 

 Pneumonia — Poll Evil — Quitor — Roaring — Ringbone — Scratches — 

 Stumbling — Shoe Boil — Slavering — Seatons — Strains — Sprains 



— Surfeit — Splint — Stocking — String Halt — Sweeney— Thrush — 

 Tumors — Tail Rubbing — Thick Water — Thoroughpin — Thumps 



— Wind Galls — Worms, . 375 



CHAPTER XL VII. 

 MISCELLANEOUS. 



Gentlemen horsemen — To become famous — Castration — Conditioning 



— To administer chloroform — Significance of the Bay color — Dock- 

 ing — Warranty — Runaway to stop — Trotting standard — Pacing 

 standard — Rules for laying out tracks — Rules of admission, . . 400 



CHAPTER XLVIII. 

 The World's Fastest Records — Fastest Records, All ways of going — 

 Breeding of the fastest horses — Tables of fastest records, . . 411 



APPENDIX. 



Giving names, description, characteristics, etc., of upwards of one hun- 

 dred of the author's most noted horses — Author's concluding re- 

 marks, etc 425 



