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
CatarrhR 12;
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, 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 fr om 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
Hyd r/> 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, 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< /span>
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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