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
Laminae, 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
Lueber, investigation of pneumonia infection, 522
_Lucilia caesar_, 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 coit_, 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