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