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THE HORSE, 



IN THE STABLE AND THE FIELD 



Pis Bmtths, 

 MANAGEMENT IN HEALT3 AND DISEASE, ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, 



ETC. ETC. 



By J. H. WALSH, F.E.C.S. (Stonehenge), 



EDITOR 01' "THE FIELD;" AUTHOR OF "BRITISH RURAL SPORTS," ETC. 



ILLUSTRATED WITH ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ENGRAVINGS BY BARRAUD, H. WEIR, ZWECKER, &c. 



This very handsome volume is "a Complete Practical Work on the Horse, in a form and style suited to the 

 Country Gentleman of the Nineteenth Century, and embraces the most recent views of the most 

 Eminent Authorities, on every subject, treated in a practical manner, and in a style popularly intelligible, 

 by the best Sporting Writer of the present time. 



CONTENTS. 



Chapter I.- 

 II.- 



III. 



IV. 



V.- 



VI, 



VII, 



VIII, 



IX, 



X.— ' 



XI.- 

 XII.- 

 XIII. 



XIV.- 



XV.- 



XVI.- 



XVII.- 



XVIII.- 

 XIX.- 



•Early History of the Horse. 



-Natural History and General Character- 

 istics. 



-The Horses of the East. 



-The Horses of the Western Hemisphere. 



-European Continental Horses. 



-The English Thoroughbred Horse. 



-Half-breds, Cobs, and Ponies. 



-Agricultural and Dray Horses. 



-On the Locomotive Action in the Various 

 Paces. 



■The Principles of Breeding Applicable to 

 the Horse. 



■The Brood Mare and her Foal. 



■The Breaking of the Colt. 



-Stables. 



■Stable Management. 



Stable Management, continued. 



•Riding and Driving. 



Classification of the Various Organs and 

 Physiology of the Skeleton. 



■Descriptive Anatomy of the Several Bones. 



■Of the Joints, and the Tissues entering 

 into their composition. 



Chap. XX, 

 XXI, 

 XXII, 

 XXIII. 

 XXIV. 

 XXV. 

 XXVI. 



XXVII. 



XXVIII. 



XXIX. 

 XXX. 



XXXI. 



XXXII. 



XXXIII. 



XXXIV. 



—The Muscular System. 



—The Thoracic Organs and their Appendages. 



—The Abdominal and Pelvic Viscera. 



— The Nervous System. 



— Special Organs. 



— The Diseases and Injuries of Bone. 



— Injury and Diseases of the Joints, Muscles, 



and Tendons. 

 — Diseases of the Thoracic Organs and their 



Appendages. 

 — Diseases of the Abdominal Viscera and their 



Appendages . 

 — Diseases of the Nervous System. 

 — Diseases and Injuries of Certain Special 



Organs. 

 — Constitutional Diseases. 

 — Operations. 

 — The Action of Medicines, and the Forms m 



which they are Prescribed. 

 — List of Veterinary Drugs, with their Action 



and Doses. 



Appendix. — On the Law of Soundness, and on the Pur- 

 chase and Sale of Horses. 



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