INDEX.

Abdomen— dropsy, in foal, or ascites, description and treatment, 193 dropsy, or ascites, description, symptoms, and treatment, 86 limbs, and perineum, dropsy affecting, description and treatment, 180 sheath, and penis, swelling, cause and treatment, 171 Abnormal presentations at birth, 197-202 Abortion, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 182 Abscess— and inflammation of lymphatic glands, descriptions, symptoms, treatment, 272 in lung and suppuration, symptoms, 127 Abscesses— acute, description and treatment, 500 cold, description and treatment, 501 description, 500 in throat, treatment, 62 Acari, parasites of eye, 296 Acariasis, or mange, note, 478 Achorion schönleini, vegetable parasite of skin, description, 478 Adams, John W., chapter on "Horseshoeing", 583-605 Air embolism, or air in veins, note, 270 Albuminoid poisoning, hemoglobinuria, azoturia, azotemia, symptoms, prevention, and treatment, 141 Aloes, use against bots in horses, 93 Amaurosis, or palsy of nerve of sight, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 231, 295 Amnion, dropsy, description and treatment, 180 Anasarca, or purpura hemorrhagica, causes, symptoms, treatment, etc., 531, 533 Anatomy and physiology of brain and nervous system, 210 Anemia— of brain, causes, symptoms, pathology, and treatment, 223 spinal, symptoms and treatment, 234 Aneurism— description, symptoms, pathology, and treatment, 265 one form caused by Strongylus vulgaris, 265 Anidian monsters, or moles, description, 179 Animal parasites, description of kinds, 478 Ankle— and fetlock, skin, note, 397 fetlock, and foot, diseases, chapter by A. A. Holcombe, 395-457 Ankles, cocked, or knuckling, description, causes, and treatment, 400 Anthrax— definition, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 540-544 prevention by destruction of bacteria, 544 vaccination as preventive, 544 Apoplexy, or cerebral hemorrhage, causes, symptoms, pathology, and treatment, 220 Arteries— description, 249 diseases, or arteritis, and endarteritis, description, symptoms, pathology, and treatment, 263 Artery— constriction, description, 265 rupture, description, symptoms, and treatment, 266 Arthritis, open joints, broken knees, and synovitis, cause and treatment, 357 Ascaris equorum, intestinal worm, note, 90 Ascites, or dropsy of abdomen, description, symptoms, and treatment, 86, 193 Asthma, heaves, or broken wind, definition, symptoms, and treatment, 128 Atheroma of veins and arteries, description, 264 Autogenic vaccines, description, 506 Autumn mange, description and treatment, 480 Azotemia, hemoglobinuria, azoturia, poisoning by albuminoids, symptom, prevention, and treatment, 141 Azoturia, hemoglobinuria, azotemia, poisoning by albuminoids, symptoms, prevention, and treatment, 141 Bacillus equisepticus, cause of pneumonia, 522 Bacteria, kinds responsible for pneumonia in horses, 522 Bacteria vaccines, kinds and uses, 506, 531 Balls, or pills, description and manner of administering, 44 Bar shoe, uses, 601 Bees, wasps, and hornets, stings, treatment, 485 Beets as feed, 56 Bichlorid, use in disinfection, 509 Bighead (osteoporosis)— chapter by John R. Mohler, 578-582 symptoms, lesions, and treatment, 580 Biliary calculi, or gallstones, symptoms and treatment, 90 Bilocular cavity, or calculus in sheath, or preputial calculus, description and treatment, 163 Birth, abnormal presentations at, 197-202 Black pigment tumors, or melanosis, description and treatment, 476 Bladder— calculus, or stone, and tumor affecting, 190 diseases growths, symptoms and treatment, 151 eversion, description and treatment, 152 inflammation, cystitis, or urocystitis, symptoms and treatment, 149 irritable, cause and treatment, 150 neck, spasms affecting, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 146, 225 paralysis, description and cause, 230 paralysis, symptoms and treatment, 148 stone, vesical calculus, or cystic calculus, description, symptoms, and treatment, 159 worm of kidney, 146 Bleeding— after castration, treatment, 170 from lungs, or hemoptysis, causes, description, and treatment, 127 from nose, causes and treatment, 103 or flooding from womb, treatment, 205 skin eruptions, or Dermatorrhagia parasitica, description and treatment, 469 Blisters, inflammation, or eczema, description and treatment, 464 Bloat colic, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 73 Blood— circulation of heart, description, 248 clots in walls of vagina, 207 medicine administered into veins, 48 medium of disease transmission, 511 of penis, extravasation, cause and treatment, 167 spavin, bog spavin, and thoroughpin, description and treatment, 356 Blood vessels— and heart, diseases, remarks, 250 heart, and lymphatics, diseases, chapter by M. R. Trumbower, 247-273 physiology and anatomy, 247 Bloody urine, or hematuria, cause and treatment, 141 Blowing, high, description, 110 Bluebottle (Lucilia cæsar), note 481 Bog spavin, blood spavin, and thoroughpin, description and treatment, 356 Boil of eyelid, description and treatment, 282 Boils— or Dermatitis granulosa, 469 or furuncles, description and treatment, 466 Bone— hip, fracture, or on innominatum, description, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 341 premaxillary, fractures, description and treatment, 336 spavin. See Spavin Bones— cannon, fractures, description, symptoms, and treatment, 350, 395 cranial, fractures, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 335 diseases, description, 309 dislocations and luxations, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 361 of face, fractures, description, and treatment, 366 of fetlock and foot, description, 395 of hip, fractures, causes, 188 one system of locomotion, 299, 301 sesamoid, fractures, cause, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 352 Botfly, habits and treatment, 93 Bots, injury to horses, symptoms, and treatment, 93-94 Bowels, twisting, volvulus, or gut-tie, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 72 Brain— and membranes, inflammation, description, 212, 213 and nervous system, anatomy, and physiology, 210 anemia, causes, symptoms, pathology, and treatment, 223 compression, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 221 concussion, causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention, 222 congestion, or megrims, description, causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention, 217 description, 211 dropsy, or hydrocephalus, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 223 Bran, value as feed, 55 Broken knee, open joints, synovitis, and arthritis, cause, prognosis, and treatment, 357 Broken wind, heaves, or asthma, definition, symptoms, and treatment, 128 Bronchitis— and broncho-pneumonia, description, symptoms, and treatment, 120 chronic, description and treatment, 110 Broncho-pleuropneumonia, description, 126 Broncho-pneumonia and bronchitis, description, symptoms, and treatment, 120 Bruise of frog, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 425 Burns and scalds, treatment, 483, 496 Calculi— biliary, or gallstones, symptoms and treatment, 90 or stones, in intestines, description, symptoms, and treatment, 71 or stones, in stomach, symptoms and treatment, 70 renal, description, symptoms, and treatment, 158 ureteric, description and treatment, 158-159 urinary, classification, 157 urinary, stone, or gravel, 154, 156 Calculus— in sheath, or bilocular cavity, or preputial calculus, description, and treatment, 163 or stone, and tumor in bladder, 190 urethral, or stone in urethra, description, symptoms, and treatment, 162 vesical, stone in bladder, or cystic calculus, description, symptoms, and treatment, 159 Calk wounds, description and treatment, 405 Callosities— description, 475 sloughing, horny sloughs, or sitfasts, description and treatment, 475, 496 Cancer, epithelial, or epithelioma, description and treatment, 477 Canker— of foot, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 418 or grease (inflammation of heels with sebaceous secretion), description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 472 Cannon bone— description, 395 fractures, description, symptoms, and treatment, 350 Capped elbow, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 379 Capped hock, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 385 Capped knee, description, cause, treatment, etc., 383 Carbolic acid, use in disinfection, 509 Carbon disulphid, use against worms in horse, 93, 94 Cardiac enlargement, or hypertrophy of heart, description, symptoms, and treatment, 260 Caries of cartilage, or tumor of haw, description and treatment, 284 Carrots, value as feed, 56 Cartilaginous quittor, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 415 Cartilago nictitans, or winking cartilage (the haw), description, 276 Castration— bleeding after operation, treatment, 170 by covered operation, method, 172 of cryptorchids, or ridglings, method, 169 of mare, method, 172 of stallions, method, 168 pain after operation, treatment, 170 successful method, 169 Cataract, remarks, 295 Catarrh— chronic, nasal gleet or collection in sinuses, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 99 gastrointestinal, or indigestion, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 76 nasal, or cold in head, symptoms, and treatment, 98 Cerebral hemorrhage, or apoplexy, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 220 Cerebritis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 212 Cerebrospinal meningitis, so called, or forage poisoning, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 237 Cervical choke, description, 63, 64 Chaff for feeding, 54 Chaps on knee and hock, scratches, or cracked heels, description, causes, and treatment, 470 Chest walls, wounds penetrating, description and treatment, 131 Chicken acari, or Dermanyssus gallinæ, animal parasite of skin, 480 Chigoe, or jigger— larvæ of Trombidium, Leptus americanus, animal parasite of skin, 480 Pulex penetrans, bite, treatment, 482 Choke— cervical, description, 63, 64 pharyngeal, cervical, and thoracic, symptoms and treatment, 63 Chorea, or St. Vitus dance, description and treatment 227 Chorioptes— bovis (Symbiotes equi, Dermatophagus equi), animal parasite of skin, 480 spathiferus, animal parasite of skin, 480 Choroiditis, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 288 Chronic bronchitis, description and treatment, 110 Circinate ringworm, or Tinea tonsurans, description, symptoms, treatment, 477 Circulation organs, methods of examination, 13 Clubfoot, description, 398 Clysters, or enemas, description and manner of administering, 48 Cocked ankles, or knuckling, description, causes, and treatment, 400 Coffin joint, description, 396 Coffinbone, description, 396 Cold in head, or nasal catarrh, symptoms and treatment, 98 Colic— bloat, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 73 cramp, or spasmodic, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 74 flatulent, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 73 obstruction, caused by impaction of large intestine, symptoms, and treatment, 68 specific forms, 66 wind, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 73 worms, description, symptoms, and treatment, 90-94 tympanitic, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 73 Colt. See Foal. Compression of brain, causes, symptoms, and treatment 222 Concussion— of brain, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 222 spinal, causes and treatment, 235 Conformation— of foot, faults, 398 of horse, 10 Congenital scrotal hernia, description and treatment, 82 Congestion— active, causes, 30 and inflammation of skin, description of kinds, 461 and inflammation of testicles, or orchitis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 164 description, 30 of brain, or megrims, causes, symptoms, treatment, etc., 217 of heart, description and symptoms, 263 of lungs, description and treatment, 111 of skin, red efflorescence, or erythema, description and treatment, 461 of skin, with small pimples, or pauples, description and treatment, 463 of spine, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 233 passive, causes, 31 Conjunctives, or external ophthalmia, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 285 Constipation, or costiveness, cause and treatment, 70, 181 Constitution of horse, 10 Consumption, or tuberculosis, note, 128 Contagious pneumonia, discussion, 521-527 Convulsions, description and treatment, 226 Cord— spermatic, strangulated, cause and treatment, 170 spermatic, tumors, causes and treatment, 171 spinal, description, 212 Corn, or maize, how to feed, 55 Cornea— ulcers, treatment, 288 white specks and cloudiness, cause and treatment, 288 Corns, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 421 Coronary band, description, 397 Coronet— description, 396 fractures, symptoms and treatment, 351 Costiveness, or constipation, cause and treatment, 70, 181 Cough, chronic, description, 131 Cracked heels, or scratches, causes and treatment, 470 Cramp— of hind limb, or spasm of thigh, description and treatment, 226 or spasmodic, or colic, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 74 Cramps— of hind limbs, cause and treatment, 181 or spasms, causes and treatment, 226 Cranial bones, fractures, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 335 Cranium, tumor within, description of kinds, 224 Cresol, use in disinfection, 579 Crookedfoot, description, 399 Croup and diphtheria, mistakes in diagnosis, 108 Cryptorchids, or ridglings, castration, method, 169 Curb of hock, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 374 Currying, value as preventive of bots, 94 Cutaneous quittor, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 407 Cuticle, description, 459 Cyanosis of newborn foals, description, 263 Cylicostomum spp., parasite, danger and remedies, 92-93 Cystic calculus, or stone in bladder, description, symptoms, and treatment, 159 Cystic disease of wall of womb, or vesticular mole, description and treatment, 179 Cysticercus, parasite of eye, 297 Cystitis, inflammation of bladder, or urocystitis, symptoms and treatment, 149 Dermanyssus gallinæ, or chicken acari, animal parasite of skin, 480 Dermatitis granulosa, or boils, 469 Dermatocoptes equi, animal parasite of skin, 480 Dermatodectes equi, animal parasite of skin, 480 Dermatophagus equi, animal parasite of skin, 480 Dermatorrhagia parasitica, or bleeding skin eruptions, description and treatment, 469 Dermis, or true skin, description, 459 Descazeaux, study of summer sores, note, 470 Diabetes— insipidous, diuresis, polyuria, or excessive secretion of urine, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 138 mellitus, saccharine diabetes, glycosuria, or inosuria, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 139 Diaphragm— rupture, cause and symptoms, 133 spasm, or thumps, description and treatment, 132, 225 Diaphragmatic hernia, description, 85 Diarrhea, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 77 Dieckerhoff, experiments in disease transmission, note, 511 Digestive organs, diseases, chapter by Ch. B. Michener, 49-94 Digestive tract, examination, 20 Dilatation— of heart, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 261 of veins, varicose, or varix, causes and treatment, 269 Dioctophyme renale, roundworm of kidney, 146 Diphtheria and cramp, mistakes in diagnosis, 108 Dips, use against mange in horses, 479 Diseases, fundamental principles of, chapter by Rush Shippen Huidekoper, 27-43 Disinfection, directions and materials, 508-509 Dislocations and luxations of bones, causes, symptoms, treatment, etc., 361 Distemper, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 527-531 Diuresis, polyuria, diabetes insipidus, or excessive secretion of urine, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 138 Douche, nasal, in administering medicines, 47 Dourine, or maladie du coït— article by John R. Mohler, 562-564 description and treatment, 562 symptoms and treatment, 562-564 Drench, methods, 45 Dropsies, synovial, remarks, 355 Dropsy— general, of fetus, description and treatment, 193 of abdomen in foal, or ascites, description and treatment, 193 of abdomen, or ascites, description, symptoms, and treatment, 86 of amnion, description and treatment, 180 of brain, or hydrocephalus, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 223 of limbs, perineum, and abdomen, description and treatment, 180 of scrotum, or hydrocele, symptoms and treatment, 166 of womb, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 179 Dysentery, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 79 Echinococcus— parasite of eye, 296 parasite of kidney, 146 Ectropion and entropion, or eversion and inversion of eyelid, causes and treatment, 283 Eczema, or inflammation with blisters, description and treatment, 464 Edematous pneumonia, definition, causes, symptoms, treatment, etc., 521-527 Elbow— capped, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 379 muscles, sprains, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 368 Electric shock, causes, description, and treatment, 246 Electuries, or pastes, description, and manner of administering, 45 Embolism— air, or air in veins, note, 270 and thrombus, description, symptoms, and treatment, 267 Embryotomy of parts at abnormal births, 202 Emphysema, or swelling of fetus with gas, description and treatment, 194 Encephalitis, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 212 Endarteritis, and arteritis, description, symptoms, and treatment, 263 Endocarditis, or inflammation of lining membrane of heart, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 252 Enemas, or clysters, description, and manner of administering, 48 Engorgement colic, description, symptoms, and treatment, 66 Enteritis, definition, 66 Entropion and ectropion, or inversion and eversion of eyelid, causes and treatment, 283 Epilepsy, or falling fits, symptoms and treatment, 227 Epithelial cancer, or epithelioma, description and treatment, 477 Epithelioma— degeneration of penis, or papilloma, 167 or epithelial cancer, description and treatment, 477 Equine variola, or horsepox, causes, symptoms, treatment, etc., 535-540 Eruptions, bleeding skin, or Dermatorrhagia parasitica, description and treatment, 469 Erysipelas, description, cause, and treatment, 474 Erythema, congestion of skin, or red efflorescence, description and treatment, 461 Esophagus— dilatation, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 65 or gullet, treatment for foreign bodies, 62 stricture, description and treatment, 65 Eversion— and inversion of eyelid, or ectropion and entropion, causes and treatment, 283 of bladder, description and treatment, 152 or womb after difficult parturition, treatment, 205 Exostosis, cause, description, and treatment, 309 Extravasation of blood of penis, causes and treatment, 167 Eye— diseases, chapter by James Law, 274-297 examination, 277 haw, or winking cartilage, description, 276 lachrymal apparatus, 277 muscles, description, 276 palsy of nerve of sight, or amaurosis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 295 parasites, affecting, description of different kinds, 296 watering, or obstruction of lachrymal apparatus, description and remedies, 285 Eyeball— description, 274 tumors affecting, 296 Eyelid— diseases, description of different kinds, 279 inflammation, causes and treatment, 280 inversion and eversion, or entropion and ectropion, causes and treatment, 283 sty, or furuncle (boil), affecting, description and treatment, 282 torn, or wounds affecting, description and treatment, 284 warts and tumors affecting, description and treatment, 283 Face bones, fractures, description and treatment, 336 Facial paralysis, cause and symptoms, 230 Fainting, or syncope, symptoms and treatment, 259 Farcy— and glanders, definition, causes, etc., 544-557 chronic, symptoms, 550 Fatty degeneration of heart, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 261 Favus, or honeycomb ringworm, description and treatment, 478 Feces, impaction of rectum, 191 Feed— kinds to give, 51 musty and moldy, effect on digestive organs, 53 preparation, 57 Feeding, corn, 55 Feet, interfering, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 399 Femur, fracture, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 347 Fetlock— and ankle skin, note, 397 and foot bones, description, 395 ankle, and foot, diseases, chapter by A. A. Holcombe, 395-457 joint, description, 396 knuckling, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 372 sprain, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 402 Fetus adherent to walls of womb, description, cause, and treatment, 192 excessive size, 192 general dropsy, description and treatment, 193 or foal, prolonged retention, cause and treatment, 181 swelling with gas, or emphysema, description and treatment, 194 tumors, or inclosed ovum, description and treatment, 194 Fever, description, causes, and treatment, 38-43 Fibrous bands constricting and crossing neck of womb, description and treatment, 191 Fibrous constriction of vagina or vulva, cause and treatment, 191 Filaria— conjunctivæ, parasite of eye, 297 equina, parasite of eye, 297 hæmorrhagica, threadworm causing skin disease, 469 irritans, parasite causing summer sores, description and treatment, 469 multipapillosa, threadworm causing bleeding skin eruptions, 469 palpebralis, parasite of eye, 296 Fistulas, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 502-506 Fits, falling, or epilepsy, symptoms and treatment, 227 Flatfoot, description, 398 Flatulent colic, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 73 Flea, or pulex, prevention and treatment of bite, 482 Flesh fly (Sarcophaga carnaria), note, 481 Flexor— metatarsis, rupture, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 377 pedis perforans, description, 397 pedis perforatus, description, 397 tendons or their sheath, and suspensory ligaments, sprains, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 371 Flies, method of attacking horses; prevention and treatment for bite, 481 Flooding, or bleeding from womb, treatment, 205 Flukes, occurrence in horses, note, 90 Flyblow, or grubs in skin, description and treatment, 481 Foal— contractions of muscles, description and treatment, 194 monstrosities, description of kinds, causes, and treatment, 194 natural presentation, 185 prolonged retention, cause and treatment, 181 water in head, or hydrocephalus, description and treatment, 192 Foals, newborn, cyanosis affecting, description, 263 Foot— anatomical review, 395, 583 and fetlock bones, description, 395 canker, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 418 conformation, faults, 398 fetlock, and ankle, diseases, chapter by A. A. Holcombe, 395-457 mange, description and treatment, 480 punctured wounds, description, symptoms, and treatment, 426 sand-cracks, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 432 sole description, 397 See also Hoof. Forage poisoning, or cerebrospinal meningitis, symptoms and treatment, 237 Forearm, fracture, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 345 Founder, or laminitis— acute, subacute, and chronic, description, 447-449 complications, 449 curative measures, 455 description and causes, 441 following parturition, cause, 207 sequel of superpurgation, 79 symptoms, 444 treatment and prevention, 453 Fractures— causes and symptoms, 322 description of different kinds, 322 of different bones, description, 335 prognosis and treatment, 328 Frog— bruises, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 425 description, 397 Frostbites, description, symptoms, and treatment, 405 Furuncle— or boil, description and treatment, 466 or sty (boil), of eyelid, description and treatment, 282 Gaffky, investigation of pneumonia infection, note, 522 Galls, harness, or sitiasts, description and treatment, 475, 496 Gallstones, or biliary calculi, symptoms, and treatment, 90 Gangrene— or mortification, causes, 127 or mortification, description, symptoms, and treatment, 498 Gas, swelling of fetus, or emphysema, description and treatment, 194 Gastritis, definition, 66 Gastro-enteritis, description, symptoms, and treatment, 80 Gastrointestinal catarrh, or indigestion, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 76 Gastrointestinal parasites, description and treatment, discussion by Maurice C. Hall, 90-94 Gastrophilus, spp., injury to horses, symptoms and treatment, 93-94 Generative organs, diseases affecting, chapter by James Law, 164-209 Genito-urinary passages, method of medication, 48 Gentian, use against pinworms in horses, 91 Gestation, extra-uterine, description, symptoms, and treatment, 178 Glanders— acute, symptoms, 553 and farcy, definition, causes, etc., 544-557 chronic, symptoms, 552 treatment, 556 Glands— lymphatic, description, symptoms, and treatment, 271 sebaceous, description, 460 sweat, description, 461 Gleet— inflammation of urethra, or urethritis, symptoms and treatment, 153 nasal, chronic catarrh, or collection in sinuses, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 99-101 Glossitis, description and treatment, 60-61 Glottis, spasm, description, 225 Glycosuria, saccharine diabetes mellitus, or inosuria, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 139 Grains for feeding, 54 Grasses, important feed, 56 Gravel, urinary calculi, or stone, description, and causes, 154, 156 Grease or canker, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 472 Grubs— or flyblow, description and treatment, 481 under the skin, description and treatment, 481 Grunting, testing, 109 Gullet, or esophagus, treatment for foreign bodies, 62 Gunshot wounds, description and treatment, 494 Gut-tie, volvulus, or twisting of bowels, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 72 Guttural pouches, description and treatment, 119 Habronema, spp., cause of summer sores, etc., note, 470 Hairs on skin, description, 460 Harbaugh, W. H., chapter on "Diseases of respiratory organs", 95-133 Harness galls, or sitiasts, description and treatment, 475, 496 Harvest bug, larvæ of Trombidium, Leptus americanus, jigger (chigoe), animal parasite of skin, 480 Haw— or winking cartilage of the eye, description, 276 tumor, or caries of cartilage of the eye, description and treatment, 284 Hay, kinds for feeding, 53 Heart— adventitious growths, description, symptoms, and treatment, 258 anatomy and physiology, 247 and blood vessels, diseases, remarks, 250 blood vessels, and lymphatics, diseases, chapter by M. R. Trumbower, 247-273 circulation of blood, description, 248 congestion, description, and symptoms, 263 dilatation, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 261 fatty degeneration, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 261 hypertrophy, or cardiac enlargement, description, symptoms, and treatment, 260 inflammation of lining membrane, or endocarditis, cause, description, symptoms, and treatment, 251 inflammation of muscular structure, or myocarditis, symptoms, alterations, and treatment, 251 inflammation of sac inclosing, or pericarditis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 255 inflammatory diseases, description and treatment, 251 palpitation, description, symptoms, and treatment, 259 rupture, description and cause, 262 valvular disease, description, symptoms, and treatment, 257 weakness, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 262 Heat exhaustion, sunstroke, or heat stroke, symptoms, pathology, treatment, and prevention, 219 Heaves, broken wind, or asthma, definition, symptoms, and treatment, 128 Heels— contracted, or hoofbound, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 429 cracked, scratches, or chaps on knee and hock, description, causes, and treatment, 470 inflammation, with sebaceous secretion, grease, or canker, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 472 Hematuria, or bloody urine, cause and treatment, 141 Hemiplegia, or paralysis of on side, or half the body, description and symptoms, 228 Hemoglobinuria, azoturia, azotemia, poisoning by albuminoids, symptoms, prevention, and treatment, 141 Hemoptysis, or bleeding from lungs, causes, description, and treatment, 127 Hemorrhage— process of healing and method of treatment, 486 spinal, symptoms and treatment, 225 Hemorrhoids, or piles, description and treatment, 81 Hemostasia, description and treatment, 485 Hepatitis, or inflammation of liver, symptoms, causes, and treatment, 87 Hernia— congenital scrotal, description and treatment, 82 diaphragmatic, description, 85 inguinal, description, symptoms, and treatment, 83 of womb, description and treatment, 189 or rupture, description of different kinds, 82 scrotal, cause, 82 umbilical, description and treatment, 84 ventral, description and treatment, 83 Herpes, description and treatment 468 High blowing, description, 110 Hip— bone, or os innominatum, description, symptoms, and treatment, 341 bones, fractured, causes, 158 joint, luxation, description and treatment 363 lameness, description, symptoms, and treatment, 369 Hock— and knee, chaps or scratches, description, causes, and treatment, 470 capped, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 385 curb, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 374 fractures, note, 350 Holcombe, A. A., chapter on "Diseases of ankle, fetlock, and foot", 395-457 Honeycomb ringworm, or favus, description and treatment, 478 Hoof— bound, or contracted heels, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 429 description, 397 growth, 588 healthy, characteristics, 590 physiological movements, 587 preparation for the shoe, 596 See also Foot. Hoofs— unshod, care, 590 various forms, 591 Hornets, bees, and wasps, treatment for stings, 483 Horny sloughs (sitfasts), or sloughing callosities, description and treatment, 475, 496 Horse, sick— attitude and general condition indicative of disease, 8 conformation and constitution, 10 danger from silage as feed, 56-57 examination, chapter by Leonard Pearson, 7-26 history of diseases necessary in examination, 8 parasites, intestinal, and injuries from them, 90-94 Horsepox, or equine variola, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 535-540 Horses— anatomy, description, 300 danger from silage as feed, 56-57 Horseshoes. See Shoe. Huidekoper, Rush Shippen, chapter on "Infectious diseases", 507-582 Humerus, fractures, symptoms and treatment, 345 Hydrocele, or dropsy of scrotum, symptoms and treatment, 166 Hydrocephalus— or dropsy of brain, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 223 or water in head, of foal, description and treatment, 192 Hydrophobia. See Rabies. Hydrothorax, treatment, 126 Hypertrophy of heart, or cardiac enlargement, description, symptoms, and treatment, 260 Hypoderma-lineata, note, 481 Icterus, jaundice, or yellows, description and treatment, 88 Impaction— of large intestine, cause of obstruction colic, symptoms and treatment, 68 of rectum with feces, 191 Indigestion, or gastrointestinal catarrh, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 76 Infectious anemia— chapter by John R. Mohler, 569-572 cause and localities infected, 569 diagnosis and treatment, 571 symptoms and lesions, 570 Infectious diseases— chapter by Rush Shippen Huidekoper, 507-582 general discussion, 507-508 Inflammation— acute, of kidneys, or acute nephritis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 143 and abscess of lymphatic glands, description, symptoms, and treatment, 272 and congestion of skin, description of kinds, 461 and congestion of teats and udder, symptoms and treatment, 208 and congestion of testicles, or orchitis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 164 chronic, of kidneys, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 145 description, symptoms, termination, and treatment, 32-38 local, and abscess of lymphatic glands, description, symptoms, and ">treatment, 272 of bladder, cystitis, or urocystitis, symptoms and treatment, 149 of brain and its membranes, description, 193, 212, 213 of eyelids, causes and treatment, 280 of heels, with sebaceous secretion, grease, or canker, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 472 of lining membrane of heart, or endocarditis, cause, description, symptoms, and treatment, 251 of liver, or hepatitis, symptoms, causes, and treatment, 87 of membranes, a complication of influenza, 518 of membranes of spinal cord, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 232 of muscular structure of heart, or myocarditis, symptoms, alterations, and treatment, 251 of nerve, or neuritis, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 236 of pharynx, description, 103 of sac inclosing heart, or pericarditis, causes, symptoms, pathology, and treatment, 255 of substance of spinal cord, or myelitis, causes, symptoms, pathology, and treatment, 233 of urethra, urethritis, or gleet, symptoms and treatment, 153 of womb and peritoneum, symptoms and treatment, 207 with blisters, or eczema, description and treatment, 464 with pustules, description and treatment, 465 Inflammatory diseases of the heart, description and treatment, 251 Influenza, definition, symptoms, termination, complications, and treatment, 510-521 Inguinal, hernia, description, symptoms, and treatment, 83 Inhalation, manner of administering medicines, 47 Injections, methods of administering medicines, 47 Inosuria, saccharine diabetes, diabetes mellitus, or glycosuria, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 139 Insufflation, description, 46 Interfering— and speedy cuts, description, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 387 of feet, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 399 Intestinal— paralysis, cause, 230 worm, or Ascaris equorum, note, 90 Intestines— and stomach, diseases, remarks, 65 calculi, or stones, description, symptoms, and treatment, 71 large, impaction, cause of obstruction colic, symptoms and treatment, 68 paralysis, description and treatment, 72 spasms, 225 Intussusception, or invagination, description, symptoms, and treatment, 71 Invagination, or intussusception, description, symptoms, and treatment. 71 Iritis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 288 Irritation, nervous, of skin, or pruritus, description and treatment, 468 Jaundice, icterus, or yellows, description and treatment, 88 Jaw, lower, fracture, description, causes, and treatment, 337 Jigger, or chigoe, Leptus americanus, animal parasite of skin, 480 Joint— hip, luxation, description and treatment, 361 shoulder, displacement, description and treatment, 363 Joints diseases, note, 354 open, cause, prognosis, and treatment, 357 Kidneys— acute inflammation, or acute nephritis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 143 chronic inflammation, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 145 bladder worm and roundworm affecting, 146 tumors, note, 146 Knee— broken, cause, prognosis, and treatment, 357 capped, description, cause, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 383 fracture, cause, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 347 or hock, chaps, scratches, or cracked heels, description, causes, and treatment, 470 Knees, sprung, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 373 Knuckling— of fetlock, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 372 or cocked ankles, description, causes, and treatment, 400 Labor pains, premature, cause, and treatment, 186 Lachrymal apparatus of eye— description, 277 obstruction, or watering eye, description and remedy, 285 Lameness— definition, physiology and description, 303 how to detect the seat, 307 how to discover, 304 its causes and treatment, chapter by A. A. Liautard, 298-394 of hip, description, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 369 of shoulder, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 365 Laminæ, sensitive, description, 398 Laminitis. See Founder. Lampas, description and treatment, 60 Laryngismus paralyticus, or roaring, description and treatment, 108, 230 Laryngitis, or sore throat, description, symptoms and treatment, 103 Larynx, spasms, description and treatment, 107 Law, James— chapter on "Diseases of the eye", 274-297 chapter on "Diseases of the generative organs", 164-209 chapter on "Diseases of the skin", 458, 483 chapter on "Diseases of the urinary organs", 134-163 Lead poisoning, or plumbism, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 245 Leptus americanus, or harvest bug, animal parasite of skin, 480 Leucorrhea, description and treatment, 208 Liautard, A., chapter on "Lameness: Its causes and treatment", 298, 394 Lice, or pediculi, description and treatment for bite, 482 Ligament— suspensory, description, 396 suspensory, rupture, description, symptoms, and treatment, 403 Ligaments— description and functions, 302 suspensory, sprains, causes, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 371 Limbs— hind, cramp, cause and treatment, 181 perineum, and abdomen, dropsy, description and treatment, 180 Lime-and-sulphur dip, use against mange in horse, 479 Linseed, ground, value as laxative, 55 Liver— diseases, remarks, 87 inflammation, or hepatitis, symptoms, causes, and treatment, 87 rupture, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 88 Lockjaw, or tetanus, causes, symptoms, prevention, and treatment, 241 Locomotor ataxia, or incoordination of movement, description, 230 Loins, sprains, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 392 Lüber, investigation of pneumonia infection, 522 Lucilia cæsar, or bluebottle, and L. hominivorax, or screwworm fly, note, 481 Lung— abscess, and suppuration, symptoms, 127 fever, or pneumonia, description, symptoms, and treatment, 113 Lungs— bleeding, or hemoptysis, causes, description, and treatment, 127 congestion, description and treatment, 111 description, 111 Luxations and dislocations of bones, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 361 Lymphangitis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 272 Lymphatic— glands, local inflammation, and abscess affecting, description, symptoms, and treatment, 272 system, diseases, description, 271 Lymphatics, heart, and blood vessels, diseases, chapter by M. R. Trumbower, 247-273 Madness, rabies, or hydrophobia, cause, symptoms, treatment, and prevention, 244, 559 Maize, or corn, how to feed 55 Maladie de coït, or dourine, description and treatment, 562 Mange— autumn, and mange of foot, description and treatment, 480 horse, treatment, 479 or acariasis, note, 478 Mare— castration, method, 172 pregnant, hygiene, 177 sterility, causes and treatment, 172 Masturbation, or self-abuse, remedy, 168 Meat fly, or Musca vomitoria, note, 481 Medicines, methods of administering, chapter by Ch. B. Michener, 44-48 Megrims, or congestion of brain, description, causes, symptoms, treatment, etc., 217 Melanosis, or black pigment tumor, description and treatment, 476 Membrane— lining, of heart, inflammation, or endocarditis, cause, description, symptoms, and treatment, 252 of nose, thickening, symptoms and treatment, 101 Membranes— inflammation, a complication of influenza, 518 mucous, visible, and skin may indicate disease, 11 of brain, inflammation, description, 212, 213 of spinal cord, inflammation, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 232 Meningitis— causes, symptoms, and treatment, 212 spinal, causes, symptoms, pathology, and treatment, 232 Metatarsi, flexor, rupture, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 377 Michener, Ch. B.— chapter on "Diseases of the digestive organs", 49-94 chapter on "Methods of administering medicines", 44-48 chapter on "Wounds and their treatment," 484-506 Microsporon furfur, vegetable parasite of skin 478 Mohler, John R.— chapter on "Dourine", 562-564 chapter on "Infectious anemia", 569-572 chapter on "Mycotic lymphangitis", 557-559 chapter on "Osteoporosis, or bighead", 578-582 Mold, silage, danger to horses, 56-57 Mole, vesicular, or cystic disease of walls of womb, description and treatment, 179 Moles, or anidian monsters, description, 179 Monstrosities in foal, description of kinds, causes, and treatment, 194 Moonblindness, or periodic ophthalmia, causes, symptoms, treatment, 291 Mortification, or gangrene. See Gangrene. Mouth, diseases, remarks, 60 Mucous membranes, visible, and skin may indicate disease, 11 Mules, danger from silage as feed, 56-57 Musca vomitoria, or meat fly, note, 481 Muscles— and tendons, diseases, 365 contraction in foal, description and treatment, 194 of elbow, sprain, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 368 of eye, description, 276 one system of locomotion, 299, 300 Mycotic lymphangitis— and glanders, differentiation, 557 chapter by John R. Mohler, 557-559 diagnosis and treatment, 558 symptoms and lesions, 558 Myelitis, or inflammation of substance of spinal cord, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 233 Myocarditis, or inflammation of muscular structure of heart, symptoms, alterations, and treatment, 251 Nasal— catarrh, or cold in head, symptoms and treatment, 98 douche, used in administering medicines, 47 gleet, chronic catarrh, or collection in sinuses, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 99 polypus, description and treatment, 102 Navel— discharge of urine, or persistent urachus, description and treatment, 151 string, constriction of a member, description, 192 Navicular— bone, description, 396 disease, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 435 Neck of womb, twisting, description and treatment, 189 Nephritis, acute, or acute inflammation of kidneys, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 143 Nerve— inflammation, or neuritis, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 236 tumor, or neuroma, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 236 Nerves— injuries, description and treatment, 237 spinal, designations, 212 Nervous system— and brain, anatomy and physiology, 210 diseases affecting, chapter by M. R. Trumbower, 210-246 examination, 23 Nettlerash, surfeit, or urticaria, description and treatment, 467 Neuritis, or inflammation of a nerve, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 236 Neuroma, or tumor of a nerve, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 236 Nose— bleeding, causes and treatment, 103 membrane, thickening, symptoms and treatment, 101 Nostrils, tumors and wounds, treatment, 97 Obstruction colic, cause, 68 Open joints. See Joints. Ophthalmia— external, or conjunctivitis, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 285 internal, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 288 periodic, or moonblindness, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 291 Optic nerve, paralysis, or amaurosis, cause, 231 Orchitis, or congestion and inflammation of testicles, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 164 Os innominatum, or hip-bone fracture, description, symptoms, and treatment, 341 Os pedis, or third phalanx, fractures, cause and treatment, 352 Osteoporosis, or bighead, chapter by John R. Mohler, 578-582 Ostitis, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 309 Overreach, description, symptoms, and treatment, 404 Ovum, inclosed, or tumors of fetus, description and treatment, 194 Oxyurus equorum, parasite, symptoms and treatment for, 91 Palpitation of heart, description, symptoms, and treatment, 259 Palsy— of nerve of sight, or amaurosis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 295 of paralysis, description and causes, 228 Pancreas and spleen, diseases, remarks, 90 Papilloma, epithelioma, or degeneration of penis, 167 Papules, or congestion of skin with small pimples, description and treatment, 463 Paralysis— facial, symptoms and cause, 230 general, cause, 228 of bladder, description and cause, 140, 230 of hind legs, cause and treatment, 181 of intestines, cause, 72, 230 of one side or half the body or hemiplegia, description and symptoms, 228 of optic nerve, or amaurosis, cause, 231 of penis, cause and treatment, 167 of pharynx, description and treatment, 61 of rectum and tail, cause, 230 or palsy, description and causes, 228 transverse, of hind extremities, or paraplegia, description and symptoms, 229 treatment, 231 Paraphymosis and phymosis, description and treatment, 171 Paraplegia, or transverse paralysis of hind extremities, cause and treatment, 229 Parasites— animal, of skin, description of kinds, 478 causing worm colic, 91, 92, 93 gastrointestinal, 90-94 in eye, description of kinds, 296 specific kinds affecting urinary organs, 146 vegetable, of skin, description of kinds, symptoms, and treatment, 477 Parasitic pityriasis, description and treatment, 478 Parturition— different presentations, 197 difficult, from narrow pelvis, cause and treatment, 186, 188 symptoms, 185 Pastern joint, description, 396 Pastes, or electuaries, description and manner of administering, 45 Pasture, relation to worms in horses, 93 Patella— fracture, description, 349 pseudoluxations, descriptions, symptoms, cause, and treatment, 363 Pearson, Leonard, chapter on "Examination of a sick horse", 7-26 Pediculi, or lice, description and treatment for bite, 482 Pelvis— and vagina, tumors affecting, description and treatment, 188 bones, fracture, different kinds, 341 narrow, cause of difficult parturition, cause and treatment, 188 Penis— degeneration, papilloma, or epithelioma, 167 extravasation of blood and paralysis, cause and treatment, 167 sheath, and abdomen, swelling, cause and treatment, 171 warts, treatment, 167 Pericarditis— a complication of influenza, 518 or inflammation of sac inclosing the heart, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 255 Perineum, limbs, and abdomen, dropsy, description and treatment, 180 Periostitis, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 309 Peritoneum and womb, inflammation, symptoms and treatment, 207 Peritonitis— a complication of influenza, 518 description, symptoms, and treatment, 85 Phalanx, first, second, and third, fracture, cause, symptoms and treatment, 351, 352 Pharyngeal polypus, description and treatment, 102 Pharyngitis, description and treatment, 61 Pharynx— inflammation, description, 103 paralysis, description and treatment, 61 Phlebitis, or diseases of veins, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 268 Phymosis and paraphymosis, description and treatment, 171 Physiology and anatomy of brain and nervous system, 210 Piles, or hemorrhoids, description and treatment, 81 Pills, or balls, description and manner of administering, 44 Pimples, small, or congestion of skin, description and treatment, 463 Pinworm, description and treatment, 91 Pityriasis, or scaly skin disease, description and treatment, 467 Plantar cushion, description, 398 Pleurisy— a complication of influenza, 518 description, symptoms, and treatment, 122 Pleurodynia, symptoms and treatment, 131 Pleuropneumonia, description and treatment, 126 Plumbism, or lead poisoning, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 245 Pneumonia— contagious, causes, symptoms, treatment, etc., 521-527 infection, transmission, 521-522 or lung fever, description, symptoms, and treatment, 113 Poisoning— albuminoid, or azotemia, symptoms, prevention, and treatment, 141 forage, or cerebrospinal meningitis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 237 lead, or plumbism, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 245 Poll evil, description, causes, symptoms, treatment, 502-506 Polypus— description and treatment, 102 pharyngeal, description and treatment, 102 Polyuria, diuresis, diabetes insipidus, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 138 Pouches, guttural, description and treatment, 119 Poultry, acariasis, description and treatment, 480 Powders, manner of administering, 44 Pregnancy— duration, 177 mare, hygiene, 177 medication, 175 Premaxillary bone, fracture, description and treatment, 336 Preputial calculus, calculus in sheath, description and treatment, 163 Presentations at birth, abnormal, 197-200 Pruritis, or nervous irritation of skin, description and treatment, 468 Pseudoluxations of patella, description, symptoms, cause, and treatment, 363 Psoroptes equi, animal parasite of skin, 480 Psoroptic acariasis, description and treatment, 480 Ptyalism, or salivation, description and treatment, 61 Pulex— or flea, prevention and treatment for bite, 482 penetrans, or chigoe, bite, treatment, 482 Pulse, how to count, 13 Purpura hemorrhagica— description, symptoms, and treatment, 270 or anasarca, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 531 Pustules, inflammation, description and treatment, 465 Quittor, description of different kinds, 407 Rabies— description, symptoms, and treatment, 244-245, 559-562 fatality of, 562 Ransom, study of flies and worms, 470 Rectum— and tail, paralysis, cause, 230 impaction with feces, 191 methods of administering medicines, 47 Red efflorescence, or erythema, description and treatment, 461 Renal calculi, description, symptoms, and treatment, 158 Respiratory organs— description, 95 diseases, chapter by W. H. Harbaugh, 95-133 methods of examination, 16 Retinitis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 288 Ribs, fractures, description, symptoms, and treatment, 339 Ridglings, or cryptorchids, castration method, 169 Ringbone, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 313, 439 Ringworm— circinate, or Tinea tonsurans, description, symptoms, and treatment, 477 honeycomb, or favus, description and treatment, 478 Roaring and thick wind, description and treatment, 108, 230 Roundworm of kidney, 146 Roundworms, horse, dangers and treatment, 90-91 Rubber pads in shoes, uses, 601 Rupture— of an artery, description, symptoms, and treatment, 266 of diaphragm, causes and symptoms, 133 of flexor metatarsi, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 377 of heart, description and cause, 262 of liver, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 89 of stomach, result of engorgement, colic, symptoms, and treatment, 66, 67 of suspensory ligament, description, symptoms, and treatment, 403 of vagina, description and treatment, 207 or hernia, description of different kinds, 82 or laceration of womb, causes and treatment, 206 Saccharine diabetes, diabetes mellitus, glycosuria, or inosuria, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 130 Sacrum, fractures, description and treatment, 341 St. Vitus dance, or chorea, description and treatment, 227 Salivation, or plyalism, description and treatment, 61 Sand-cracks of foot, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 432 Sarcocele, description and treatment, 165 Sarcophaga carnaria, or flesh fly, note, 481 Sarcoptes, scabiei equi, animal parasite of skin, 478 Sarcoptic acariasis, description, symptoms, and treatment, 478 Scalds and burns, treatment, 483, 496 Scaly skin disease, or pityriasis, description and treatment, 467 Scapula, fracture, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 344 Scorpion and tarantula, treatment for sting or bite, 483 Scratches, or chaps on knee and hock, or cracked heels, causes and treatment, 467 Screw-worm fly, or Lucilia hominivorax, note, 481 Scrotal or congenital hernia, cause, description, and treatment, 82 Scrotum, dropsy, or hydrocele, symptoms and treatment, 166 Sebaceous glands, description, 460 Self-abuse, or masturbation, remedy, 168 Serum, use against strangles and anthrax, 531, 544 Sesamoid bones, fracture, cause, symptoms, treatment, etc., 352 Sesamoid sheath, inflammation, or navicular disease, description, symptoms, and treatment, 435 Sesamoids, description, 395 Sexual and urinary organs, examination, 24 Sheath— calculus, or bilocular cavity, or preputial calculus, description and treatment, 163 of flexor tendons, sprains, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 371 penis, and abdomen, swelling, cause and treatment, 171 Shock, electric, description and treatment, 246 Shoe— bar, uses, 601 detailed description, 597 hot fitting, 600 Shoeing— chapter by John W. Adams, 583-605 preliminary examination, 594 preparation of the hoof, 596 rubber pads, 601 Shoes, special peculiarities of chief classes, 598 Shoulder— joint, displacement, description and treatment, 363 lameness, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 365 Sick horse. See Horse, sick. Sidebones, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 316, 438 Silage, use and danger as horse feed, 56-57 Sinuses, collection in, chronic catarrh, or nasal gleet, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 99 Sitfasts— horny sloughs, or sloughing callosities, description and treatment, 475 or harness galls, description and treatment, 496 Skin— and visible mucous membranes, may indicate disease, 11 animal parasites affecting, description of kinds, 478 bleeding eruptions, description and treatment, 469 congestion, red efflorescence, or erythema, description and treatment, 461 disease, scaly, or pityriasis, description and treatment, 467 diseases, chapter by James Law, 458-483 grubs under, description and treatment, 481 hairs, description, 460 inflammation and congestion, description of kinds, 461 nervous irritation, or pruritis, description and treatment, 468 of fetlock and ankle, note, 397 parasites, 477-483 structure, divisions, 459 true, or dermis, description 459 vegetable parasites, description of kinds, symptoms and treatment, 477 wounds, description of different kinds and treatment, 463-470 Sloughs, horny, sitfasts, or sloughing callosities, description and treatment, 475, 496 Snake bites, treatment, 483 Sole of foot, description, 397 Sore throat, or laryngitis, description, symptoms, and treatment, 103 Sores, summer, caused by Filaria irritans, treatment, 469, 470 Spasm— of diaphragm, or thumps, description and treatment, 132, 225 of glottis or intestines, description and treatment, 225 of larynx, description and treatment, 107 of neck of bladder, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 146, 225 of neck of womb, description and treatment, 191 of thigh, or cramp of hind limb, description and treatment, 226 Spasmodic or cramp colic, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 74 Spasms, or cramps, causes and treatment, 226 Spavin— blood, bog spavin, and thorough pin, description and treatment, 356 description, cause, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 317 Speedy cuts and interfering, description, symptoms, treatment, etc. 387 Spermatic cord— strangulated, cause and treatment, 170 tumors, causes and treatment, 171 Spinal— anemia, symptoms and treatment, 234 compression and concussion, cause, description, and treatment, 234 concussion, causes, and treatment, 235 congestion, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 233 cord, description, 212 cord, inflammation of membranes, causes, symptoms, treatment, etc., 232 cord, inflammation of substance, or myelitis, causes, symptoms, treatment, 233 hemorrhage, symptom and treatment, 235 meningitis, causes, symptoms, pathology, and treatment, 232 nerves, designation, 212 tumors, symptoms and treatment, 236 Spleen and pancreas, diseases, remarks, 90 Splint, description, symptoms, cause, and treatment, 310 Sprain— of elbow muscles, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 368 of fetlock, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 402 Sprains— description and treatment, 365-374, 392-394 of loins, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 392 of suspensory ligaments and of flexor tendons or their sheath, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 371-372 Sprung knees, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 373 Staphyloma, or bulging cornea, description and treatment, 296 Stallion— castration, methods, 168 sterility, cause and treatment, 172 Sterility in mare and stallion, cause and treatment, 172 Stiles, Ch. Wardell, chapter on "Surra", 572-577 Stock vaccines, administration, 506 Stomach— and intestines, diseases, remarks, 65 calculi, or stones, symptoms and treatment, 70 rupture, result of engorgement colic, symptoms and treatment 68 worms, description, etc., 91-92 Stomatitis, description and treatment, 60 Stone— in bladder, vesical calculus, or cystic calculus, description, symptoms, and treatment, 160 in urethra, or urethral calculus, description, symptoms, and treatment, 162 or calculus, and tumor in bladder, 190 urinary calculi, or gravel, description, 154, 157 Stones— or calculi, in intestines, description, symptoms, and treatment, 71 or calculi, in stomach, symptoms and treatment, 70 Strangles, definition, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 527-531 Strangulated spermatic cord, cause and treatment, 170 Streptococcus pyogenes equi, cause of pneumonia, 522 Stricture— of esophagus, description and treatment, 65 of urethra, description and treatment, 153 Stringhalt, description, cause and treatment, 227, 390 Strongyles, injuries to horses, symptoms and treatment, 92-93 Strongylus— equinum, parasite of kidney, 146 spp. injuries by and treatment, 92-93 vulgaris, worm causing one form of aneurism, 265 Sty, furuncle, or boil of eyelid, description and treatment, 282 Suffraginis, description, 395 Summer sores, caused by Filaria irritans, description and treatment, 469, 470 Sunstroke, heat stroke, or heat exhaustion, symptoms, treatment, etc., 219 Superpurgation, description and treatment, 78 Suppositories, description and uses, 48 Suppuration and abscess in lung, symptoms, 127 Surfeit, nettlerash, or urticaria, description and treatment, 467 Surra— chapter by Ch. Wardell Stiles, 572-577 climatic conditions, animals affected, and lethality, 572 diagnosis and treatment, 577 method of infection, symptoms, 573 Suspensory ligament— and flexor tendons, or their sheaths, sprains, cause, symptoms, treatment, 371-372 description, 395 rupture, description, symptoms, and treatment, 403 Sutures, description and uses, 486 Swamp fever. See Infectious anemia. Sweat glands, description, 461 Symbiotes equi, Dermatophagus equi, or Chorioptes spathiferus, animal parasite of skin, 480 Syncope, or fainting, symptoms and treatment, 259 Synovial— dropsies, remarks, 355 sacs, diseases, description, 355 Synovitis, cause, prognosis, and treatment, 357 Tail and rectum, paralysis, cause, 230 Tapeworms, horse, kind and injuries, 90 Tarantula and scorpion, treatment for bite and sting, 483 Teats, sore, scabs, cracks, warts, cause, and treatment, 209 Teeth— diseases period of dentition, 58 irregularities, remedies, 58 Temperament of horse, 10 Temperature, method of determining, 15 Tendon sheaths, wounds, description and treatment, 494 Tendons— and muscles, diseases, 365 flexor, or their sheath, sprains, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 371 functions, 301 lacerated, cause, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 376 of foot, function, 396 Testicles— abnormal number, causes of degeneration, 166 or orchitis, congestion and inflammation, causes, symptoms, treatment, 166 Tetanus, or lockjaw, causes, symptoms, prevention, and treatment, 241 Thick wind and roaring, description and treatment, 108 Thigh, spasm, or cramp of hind limb, description and treatment, 226 Thoracic choke, description and treatment, 63, 64 Thoroughpin, blood spavin, and bog spavin, description and treatment, 356 Threadworms, cause of bleeding skin eruptions, 469 Throat— abscesses affecting, treatment, 62 sore, or laryngitis, description, symptoms, and treatment, 103 Thrombosis, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 391 Thrombus and embolism, description, symptoms, and treatment, 267 Thrush, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 417 Thumps, or spasm of diaphragm, description and treatment, 132, 225 Tibia, fractures, symptoms and treatment, 349 Ticks, description and treatment, 481 Timothy, best hay for feeding, 53 Tinea tonsurans, or circinate ringworm, description and treatment, 477 Tissues, description, 27 Tobacco dip, use against mange in horses, 479 Toothache, how to determine and treat, 59 Trichiasis, or turned eyelashes, description and treatment, 283 Trichophyton tonsurans, vegetable parasite of skin, 477 Trumbower, M. R.— chapter on "Diseases of heart, blood vessels, and lymphatics", 247-273 chapter on "Diseases of nervous system", 210-246 Trypanosoma equiperdum, cause of dourine, note, 562 Tuberculosis, or consumption, note, 128 Tumor— and calculus, or stone in bladder, 190 of haw, or caries of cartilage, description and treatment, 284 of nerve, or neuroma, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 236 on spermatic cord, causes and treatment, 171 Tumors— and warts of eyelids, description and treatment, 283 black pigment, or melanosis, description and treatment, 476 in nostrils, treatment, 97 in vagina and pelvis, description and treatment, 188 of eyeball, remarks, 296 of fetus, or inclosed ovum, description and treatment, 194 of kidneys, note, 146 of spine, symptoms and treatment, 236 of udder, cause and treatment, 209 of abnormal growths, cause of colic, 73 within cranium, description of kinds, 224 Twins, remarks, 196 Tympanitic colic, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 73 Udder— congestion and inflammation, symptoms and treatment, 208 tumors, cause and treatment, 209 Ulceration, description, causes, and treatment, 499 Ulcers on cornea, treatment, 288 Umbilical hernia, description and treatment, 84 Urachus, persistent, or discharge of urine by navel, description and treatment, 151 Uremia, description, symptoms, and treatment, 245 Urethra— inflammation, urethritis, or gleet, symptoms and treatment, 153 stone, or urethral calculus, description, symptoms, and treatment, 162 stricture, description and treatment, 153 Urethral calculi, description and treatment, 159 Urethral calculus, or stone in urethra, description, symptoms, and treatment, 162 Urethritis, inflammation of urethra, or gleet, symptoms, and treatment, 153 Urinary— and sexual organs, examination, 24 calculi, classification, 157 calculi, stone, or gravel, description and causes, 154, 157 disorders, causes, 134 organs, diseases, chapter by James Law, 134-163 organs, parasites affecting, 146 organs, symptoms of disease, 136 organs, uses, 134 Urine— analysis, 154 bloody, or hematuria, cause and treatment, 141 discharge by navel, or persistent urachus, description and treatment, 151 excessive secretion, diuresis, polyuria, diabetes insipidus, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 138 how to examine, 136 of healthy horse, description, 25 Urocystitis, inflammation of bladder, or cystitis, symptoms and treatment, 149 Urticaria, nettlerash, or surfeit, description and treatment, 467 Vaccination— use against diseases and manufacture of material, 510 use against strangles and anthrax, 531, 544 Vaccines, kinds and use, 506, 531 Vagina— and pelvis, tumors affecting, description and treatment, 188 rupture, description and treatment, 207 Vaginal walls, effusion of blood, 190 Valvular disease of heart, symptoms and treatment, 257 Varicocele, description and treatment, 166 Varicose veins, varix, or dilatation of veins, causes and treatment, 269 Variola, equine, or horsepox, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 535-540 Veins— description, 250 dilatation, varicose veins, or varix, causes and treatment, 269 diseases, or phlebitis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 268 Ventral hernia, description and treatment, 83 Vertebra, fractures, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 338 Vesical calculus, stone in bladder, or cystic calculus, description, symptoms, and treatment, 159 Vesicular mole, or cystic disease of walls of womb, description and treatment, 179 Volvulus, gut-tie, or twisting of bowels, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 72 Vulva, or vagina, fibrous constriction, cause and treatment, 191 Warts— and tumors of eyelids, description and treatment, 283 description and treatment, 476 on penis, treatment, 167 Wasps, bees, and hornets, stings, treatment, 483 Water— impure, cause of disease, time to give, 49 in head, or hydrocephalus of foal, description and treatment, 192 Watering eye, or obstruction of lachrymal apparatus, description and remedy, 285 Whistling, description, 110 Wind— broken, heaves, or asthma, definition, symptoms, and treatment, 128 colic, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 73 Windgalls, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 355, 401 Windpipe, description, 119 Winking cartilage, or cartilago nictitans, description, 276 Womb— and peritoneum, inflammation, symptoms, and treatment, 206 bleeding, or flooding, treatment, 205 dropsy, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 179 eversion, description and method of treatment, 205 hernia, description and treatment, 189 laceration, or rupture, causes and treatment, 206 neck, twisting, description and treatment, 189 Worm colic, notes 93 Worms— bladder, affecting kidneys, 146 injuries by, and treatment, 90-94 strongyle, danger and treatment, 92-93 treatment with dips, 479 Wounds— and their treatment, chapter by Ch. B. Michener, 484-506 gunshot, description and treatment, 494 healing under a scab, treatment, 487 in nostrils, cause and treatment, 97 lacerated and contused, description and treatment, 488 penetrating walls of chest, description and treatment, 131 poisoned, description and treatment, 495 punctured, description, symptoms, and treatment, 426, 490 Yellows, jaundice, or icterus, description and treatment, 88

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