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 gallinae_, animal parasite of skin, 480
Chigoe, or jigger--
larvae 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 gallinae_, 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 coit--
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_--
_conjunctivae_, parasite of eye, 297
_equina_, parasite of eye, 297
_haemorrhagica_, 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, larvae 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