Eversion—
and inversion of eyelid, or ectropion and entropion, causes and treatment, 283
of bladder, description and treatment, 152
or womb after difficult parturition, treatment, 205

Exostosis, cause, description, and treatment, 309

Extravasation of blood of penis, causes and treatment, 167

Eye—
diseases, chapter by James Law, 274-297
examination, 277
haw, or winking cartilage, description, 276
lachrymal apparatus, 277
muscles, description, 276
palsy of nerve of sight, or amaurosis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 295
parasites, affecting, description of different kinds, 296
watering, or obstruction of lachrymal apparatus, description and remedies, 285

Eyeball—
description, 274
tumors affecting, 296

Eyelid—
diseases, description of different kinds, 279
inflammation, causes and treatment, 280
inversion and eversion, or entropion and ectropion, causes and treatment, 283
sty, or furuncle (boil), affecting, description and treatment, 282
torn, or wounds affecting, description and treatment, 284
warts and tumors affecting, description and treatment, 283

Face bones, fractures, description and treatment, 336

Facial paralysis, cause and symptoms, 230

Fainting, or syncope, symptoms and treatment, 259

Farcy—
and glanders, definition, causes, etc., 544-557
chronic, symptoms, 550

Fatty degeneration of heart, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 261

Favus, or honeycomb ringworm, description and treatment, 478

Feces, impaction of rectum, 191

Feed—
kinds to give, 51
musty and moldy, effect on digestive organs, 53
preparation, 57

Feeding, corn, 55

Feet, interfering, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 399

Femur, fracture, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 347

Fetlock—
and ankle skin, note, 397
and foot bones, description, 395
ankle, and foot, diseases, chapter by A. A. Holcombe, 395-457
joint, description, 396
knuckling, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 372
sprain, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 402

Fetus
adherent to walls of womb, description, cause, and treatment, 192
excessive size, 192
general dropsy, description and treatment, 193
or foal, prolonged retention, cause and treatment, 181
swelling with gas, or emphysema, description and treatment, 194
tumors, or inclosed ovum, description and treatment, 194

Fever, description, causes, and treatment, 38-43

Fibrous bands constricting and crossing neck of womb, description and treatment, 191

Fibrous constriction of vagina or vulva, cause and treatment, 191

Filaria—
conjunctivæ, parasite of eye, 297
equina, parasite of eye, 297
hæmorrhagica, threadworm causing skin disease, 469
irritans, parasite causing summer sores, description and treatment, 469
multipapillosa, threadworm causing bleeding skin eruptions, 469
palpebralis, parasite of eye, 296

Fistulas, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 502-506

Fits, falling, or epilepsy, symptoms and treatment, 227

Flatfoot, description, 398

Flatulent colic, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 73

Flea, or pulex, prevention and treatment of bite, 482

Flesh fly (Sarcophaga carnaria), note, 481

Flexor—
metatarsis, rupture, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 377
pedis perforans, description, 397
pedis perforatus, description, 397
tendons or their sheath, and suspensory ligaments, sprains, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 371

Flies, method of attacking horses; prevention and treatment for bite, 481

Flooding, or bleeding from womb, treatment, 205

Flukes, occurrence in horses, note, 90

Flyblow, or grubs in skin, description and treatment, 481

Foal—
contractions of muscles, description and treatment, 194
monstrosities, description of kinds, causes, and treatment, 194
natural presentation, 185
prolonged retention, cause and treatment, 181
water in head, or hydrocephalus, description and treatment, 192

Foals, newborn, cyanosis affecting, description, 263

Foot—
anatomical review, 395, 583
and fetlock bones, description, 395
canker, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 418
conformation, faults, 398
fetlock, and ankle, diseases, chapter by A. A. Holcombe, 395-457
mange, description and treatment, 480
punctured wounds, description, symptoms, and treatment, 426
sand-cracks, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 432
sole description, 397
See also Hoof.

Forage poisoning, or cerebrospinal meningitis, symptoms and treatment, 237

Forearm, fracture, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 345

Founder, or laminitis—
acute, subacute, and chronic, description, 447-449
complications, 449
curative measures, 455
description and causes, 441
following parturition, cause, 207
sequel of superpurgation, 79
symptoms, 444
treatment and prevention, 453

Fractures—
causes and symptoms, 322
description of different kinds, 322
of different bones, description, 335
prognosis and treatment, 328

Frog—
bruises, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 425
description, 397

Frostbites, description, symptoms, and treatment, 405

Furuncle—
or boil, description and treatment, 466
or sty (boil), of eyelid, description and treatment, 282


Gaffky, investigation of pneumonia infection, note, 522

Galls, harness, or sitiasts, description and treatment, 475, 496

Gallstones, or biliary calculi, symptoms, and treatment, 90

Gangrene—
or mortification, causes, 127
or mortification, description, symptoms, and treatment, 498

Gas, swelling of fetus, or emphysema, description and treatment, 194

Gastritis, definition, 66

Gastro-enteritis, description, symptoms, and treatment, 80

Gastrointestinal catarrh, or indigestion, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 76

Gastrointestinal parasites, description and treatment, discussion by Maurice C. Hall, 90-94

Gastrophilus, spp., injury to horses, symptoms and treatment, 93-94

Generative organs, diseases affecting, chapter by James Law, 164-209

Genito-urinary passages, method of medication, 48

Gentian, use against pinworms in horses, 91

Gestation, extra-uterine, description, symptoms, and treatment, 178

Glanders—
acute, symptoms, 553
and farcy, definition, causes, etc., 544-557
chronic, symptoms, 552
treatment, 556

Glands—
lymphatic, description, symptoms, and treatment, 271
sebaceous, description, 460
sweat, description, 461

Gleet—
inflammation of urethra, or urethritis, symptoms and treatment, 153
nasal, chronic catarrh, or collection in sinuses, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 99-101

Glossitis, description and treatment, 60-61

Glottis, spasm, description, 225

Glycosuria, saccharine diabetes mellitus, or inosuria, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 139

Grains for feeding, 54

Grasses, important feed, 56

Gravel, urinary calculi, or stone, description, and causes, 154, 156

Grease or canker, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 472

Grubs—
or flyblow, description and treatment, 481
under the skin, description and treatment, 481

Grunting, testing, 109

Gullet, or esophagus, treatment for foreign bodies, 62

Gunshot wounds, description and treatment, 494

Gut-tie, volvulus, or twisting of bowels, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 72

Guttural pouches, description and treatment, 119


Habronema, spp., cause of summer sores, etc., note, 470

Hairs on skin, description, 460

Harbaugh, W. H., chapter on "Diseases of respiratory organs", 95-133

Harness galls, or sitiasts, description and treatment, 475, 496

Harvest bug, larvæ of Trombidium, Leptus americanus, jigger (chigoe), animal parasite of skin, 480

Haw—
or winking cartilage of the eye, description, 276
tumor, or caries of cartilage of the eye, description and treatment, 284

Hay, kinds for feeding, 53

Heart—
adventitious growths, description, symptoms, and treatment, 258
anatomy and physiology, 247
and blood vessels, diseases, remarks, 250
blood vessels, and lymphatics, diseases, chapter by M. R. Trumbower, 247-273
circulation of blood, description, 248
congestion, description, and symptoms, 263
dilatation, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 261
fatty degeneration, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 261
hypertrophy, or cardiac enlargement, description, symptoms, and treatment, 260
inflammation of lining membrane, or endocarditis, cause, description, symptoms, and treatment, 251
inflammation of muscular structure, or myocarditis, symptoms, alterations, and treatment, 251
inflammation of sac inclosing, or pericarditis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 255
inflammatory diseases, description and treatment, 251
palpitation, description, symptoms, and treatment, 259
rupture, description and cause, 262
valvular disease, description, symptoms, and treatment, 257
weakness, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 262

Heat exhaustion, sunstroke, or heat stroke, symptoms, pathology, treatment, and prevention, 219

Heaves, broken wind, or asthma, definition, symptoms, and treatment, 128

Heels—
contracted, or hoofbound, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 429
cracked, scratches, or chaps on knee and hock, description, causes, and treatment, 470
inflammation, with sebaceous secretion, grease, or canker, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 472

Hematuria, or bloody urine, cause and treatment, 141

Hemiplegia, or paralysis of on side, or half the body, description and symptoms, 228

Hemoglobinuria, azoturia, azotemia, poisoning by albuminoids, symptoms, prevention, and treatment, 141

Hemoptysis, or bleeding from lungs, causes, description, and treatment, 127

Hemorrhage—
process of healing and method of treatment, 486
spinal, symptoms and treatment, 225

Hemorrhoids, or piles, description and treatment, 81

Hemostasia, description and treatment, 485

Hepatitis, or inflammation of liver, symptoms, causes, and treatment, 87

Hernia—
congenital scrotal, description and treatment, 82
diaphragmatic, description, 85
inguinal, description, symptoms, and treatment, 83
of womb, description and treatment, 189
or rupture, description of different kinds, 82
scrotal, cause, 82
umbilical, description and treatment, 84
ventral, description and treatment, 83

Herpes, description and treatment 468

High blowing, description, 110

Hip—
bone, or os innominatum, description, symptoms, and treatment, 341
bones, fractured, causes, 158
joint, luxation, description and treatment 363
lameness, description, symptoms, and treatment, 369

Hock—
and knee, chaps or scratches, description, causes, and treatment, 470
capped, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 385
curb, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 374
fractures, note, 350

Holcombe, A. A., chapter on "Diseases of ankle, fetlock, and foot", 395-457

Honeycomb ringworm, or favus, description and treatment, 478

Hoof—
bound, or contracted heels, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 429
description, 397
growth, 588
healthy, characteristics, 590
physiological movements, 587
preparation for the shoe, 596
See also Foot.

Hoofs—
unshod, care, 590
various forms, 591

Hornets, bees, and wasps, treatment for stings, 483

Horny sloughs (sitfasts), or sloughing callosities, description and treatment, 475, 496

Horse, sick—
attitude and general condition indicative of disease, 8
conformation and constitution, 10
danger from silage as feed, 56-57
examination, chapter by Leonard Pearson, 7-26
history of diseases necessary in examination, 8
parasites, intestinal, and injuries from them, 90-94

Horsepox, or equine variola, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 535-540

Horses—
anatomy, description, 300
danger from silage as feed, 56-57

Horseshoes. See Shoe.

Huidekoper, Rush Shippen, chapter on "Infectious diseases", 507-582

Humerus, fractures, symptoms and treatment, 345

Hydrocele, or dropsy of scrotum, symptoms and treatment, 166

Hydrocephalus—
or dropsy of brain, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 223
or water in head, of foal, description and treatment, 192

Hydrophobia. See Rabies.

Hydrothorax, treatment, 126

Hypertrophy of heart, or cardiac enlargement, description, symptoms, and treatment, 260

Hypoderma-lineata, note, 481


Icterus, jaundice, or yellows, description and treatment, 88

Impaction—
of large intestine, cause of obstruction colic, symptoms and treatment, 68
of rectum with feces, 191

Indigestion, or gastrointestinal catarrh, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 76

Infectious anemia—
chapter by John R. Mohler, 569-572
cause and localities infected, 569
diagnosis and treatment, 571
symptoms and lesions, 570

Infectious diseases—
chapter by Rush Shippen Huidekoper, 507-582
general discussion, 507-508

Inflammation—
acute, of kidneys, or acute nephritis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 143
and abscess of lymphatic glands, description, symptoms, and treatment, 272
and congestion of skin, description of kinds, 461
and congestion of teats and udder, symptoms and treatment, 208
and congestion of testicles, or orchitis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 164
chronic, of kidneys, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 145
description, symptoms, termination, and treatment, 32-38
local, and abscess of lymphatic glands, description, symptoms, and ">treatment, 272
of bladder, cystitis, or urocystitis, symptoms and treatment, 149
of brain and its membranes, description, 193, 212, 213
of eyelids, causes and treatment, 280
of heels, with sebaceous secretion, grease, or canker, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 472
of lining membrane of heart, or endocarditis, cause, description, symptoms, and treatment, 251
of liver, or hepatitis, symptoms, causes, and treatment, 87
of membranes, a complication of influenza, 518
of membranes of spinal cord, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 232
of muscular structure of heart, or myocarditis, symptoms, alterations, and treatment, 251
of nerve, or neuritis, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 236
of pharynx, description, 103
of sac inclosing heart, or pericarditis, causes, symptoms, pathology, and treatment, 255
of substance of spinal cord, or myelitis, causes, symptoms, pathology, and treatment, 233
of urethra, urethritis, or gleet, symptoms and treatment, 153
of womb and peritoneum, symptoms and treatment, 207
with blisters, or eczema, description and treatment, 464
with pustules, description and treatment, 465

Inflammatory diseases of the heart, description and treatment, 251

Influenza, definition, symptoms, termination, complications, and treatment, 510-521

Inguinal, hernia, description, symptoms, and treatment, 83

Inhalation, manner of administering medicines, 47

Injections, methods of administering medicines, 47

Inosuria, saccharine diabetes, diabetes mellitus, or glycosuria, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 139

Insufflation, description, 46

Interfering—
and speedy cuts, description, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 387
of feet, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 399

Intestinal—
paralysis, cause, 230
worm, or Ascaris equorum, note, 90

Intestines—
and stomach, diseases, remarks, 65
calculi, or stones, description, symptoms, and treatment, 71
large, impaction, cause of obstruction colic, symptoms and treatment, 68
paralysis, description and treatment, 72
spasms, 225

Intussusception, or invagination, description, symptoms, and treatment, 71

Invagination, or intussusception, description, symptoms, and treatment. 71

Iritis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 288

Irritation, nervous, of skin, or pruritus, description and treatment, 468

Jaundice, icterus, or yellows, description and treatment, 88

Jaw, lower, fracture, description, causes, and treatment, 337

Jigger, or chigoe, Leptus americanus, animal parasite of skin, 480

Joint—
hip, luxation, description and treatment, 361
shoulder, displacement, description and treatment, 363

Joints
diseases, note, 354
open, cause, prognosis, and treatment, 357


Kidneys—
acute inflammation, or acute nephritis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 143
chronic inflammation, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 145
bladder worm and roundworm affecting, 146
tumors, note, 146

Knee—
broken, cause, prognosis, and treatment, 357
capped, description, cause, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 383
fracture, cause, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 347
or hock, chaps, scratches, or cracked heels, description, causes, and treatment, 470

Knees, sprung, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 373

Knuckling—
of fetlock, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 372
or cocked ankles, description, causes, and treatment, 400


Labor pains, premature, cause, and treatment, 186

Lachrymal apparatus of eye—
description, 277
obstruction, or watering eye, description and remedy, 285

Lameness—
definition, physiology and description, 303
how to detect the seat, 307
how to discover, 304
its causes and treatment, chapter by A. A. Liautard, 298-394
of hip, description, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 369
of shoulder, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 365

Laminæ, sensitive, description, 398

Laminitis. See Founder.

Lampas, description and treatment, 60

Laryngismus paralyticus, or roaring, description and treatment, 108, 230

Laryngitis, or sore throat, description, symptoms and treatment, 103

Larynx, spasms, description and treatment, 107

Law, James—
chapter on "Diseases of the eye", 274-297
chapter on "Diseases of the generative organs", 164-209
chapter on "Diseases of the skin", 458, 483
chapter on "Diseases of the urinary organs", 134-163

Lead poisoning, or plumbism, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 245

Leptus americanus, or harvest bug, animal parasite of skin, 480

Leucorrhea, description and treatment, 208

Liautard, A., chapter on "Lameness: Its causes and treatment", 298, 394

Lice, or pediculi, description and treatment for bite, 482

Ligament—
suspensory, description, 396
suspensory, rupture, description, symptoms, and treatment, 403

Ligaments—
description and functions, 302
suspensory, sprains, causes, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 371

Limbs—
hind, cramp, cause and treatment, 181
perineum, and abdomen, dropsy, description and treatment, 180

Lime-and-sulphur dip, use against mange in horse, 479

Linseed, ground, value as laxative, 55

Liver—