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

Lüber, investigation of pneumonia infection, 522

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, 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,