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Absorbents 159
Absorbent system 106
Acidity 160
Aconite, tincture of 161
Age, to judge of 3
Ale and porter 24, 37
Alteratives 159
Ambling or pacing 34
American stabling 18
American carriages 74
Arabian horses 95
Arnica lotion 157, 158
Arsenic 124, 160
Auction 6, 89
Axle-boxes 74
Backing 71
Back-raking 122
Back, sore 38, 151
Ball, manner of giving 104
Bandaging 14
Bark of oak 159
Beans and pease 20, 21
Bearing-rein 63, 141
Bedding 9, 10, 27, 38
Belladonna 127
Belly-band, caution 59
Bits 38, 62, 70
Bladder, inflammation of 127, 159
Bleeding 111
Blinkers 62, 70
Blisters and absorbents 159, 160
Blood 94
Board ship 24, 104
Boot of leather 19
Bran mash 22
Break carriage 5, 30
Breaking or training 29
Breaking to harness 30
Breastplate 48
Breeding 1, 93
Bridling 38
Britching 58
Broken knees 141
Broken wind 119
Bronchitis 113
Bruised oats 21
Brushing 78
Buying 6
Calkins or cogs 80, 82
Calomel 125
Canker 136
Cantering 33, 52
Capped hock 145
Caprice 90
Carriages 73, 75
Carrots 23
Casting 102
Cavalry remounts 47
Cavesson 33
Chaff 10, 154
Chain fastenings 17
Chalk 15, 154, 160
Chifney bit 42
Chloride of zinc 158
Chloroform 102
Clap of the back sinew 143
Cleaning in-doors 12, 13
Climate 95
Clipping 16
Clothing 18
Clysters 159
Clysters, danger of using 15, 159
Cold and influenza 110
Colic and gripes 108, 121
Colic drench 159
Collar 60
Colour 2
Contagion 26, 112, 116
Contractors 25
Corns 79, 131, 140
Costiveness 123
Cough 115
Coupling-rein 56
Cracked and greasy heels 136
Crib-biting 153
Croton-oil 108, 159
Crupper 46, 63
Curb 145
Dandriff 14
Dealers 6, 7
Diabetes 123
Diabetes drench 159
Diarrhœa or dysentery 120, 159
Digestive organs, diseases of 120
Diseases 101
Disinfectants 113, 161
Diuretics, and danger of 126
Dogs and cats 11
Dragoons 36, 47, 48, 50
Drainage 8
Draught or traction 58, 72
Drench, way of giving 105
Driving 65
Dumb jockey 30
Dysentery 120, 159
Exercising 31, 107
Exhibitions 94, 97
Eyes, sore 110
Fairs 7
Falling in harness 70
Farcy 26, 107, 147
Febrifuges 117
Feeding 20
Feeding on board ship 24
Feet, diseases of 127
Fencing 53
Fever of the feet, or laminitis 132, 133, 155
Fits 117, 153
Flooring 10, 143
Fomentations 146
Foot, construction of 128
Foot-stopping 13, 38
French horses 1, 2, 96
Frosting 80
Gas water 146
Girthing 44
Glanders 26, 109
Glycerine 158
Goulard lotion 158
Grazing 26
Grey powder 115
Gripes 108, 121
Grooming 12
Grooms’ doctoring 12
Grooms’ requisites 15
Gruel, how to make 161
Hack for draught 5
Hack to ride 3
Halter-cast 17
Haltering 16
Hames 58, 61
Harnessing 56
Harness-room 56
Hay 21
Head, diseases of 109
Head-stall 16
Heels, cracked or greasy 136
Hidebound 150
Hills, to ascend or descend 67, 68
Hood 18
Horse shows 94, 97
Hunter 5, 94
Inflammation of bladder 125, 159
Inflammation of kidneys 125
Inflammation of lungs 114, 155
Influenza 110
Indian gram 22
Iodine ointment 159
Irish hunters 93
Jibbers 71, 87
Jumping 53
Kicking in harness 59, 71, 85
Kicking in stable 85
Kicking-strap 31, 59
Kidneys, inflammation of 125
Knee-caps 19, 31
Knees, broken 141
Lameness 55, 78, 128, 140
Lampas 119
Latches, danger of 10
Lateral cartilage, disease of 135
Laudanum 121, 159
Laxatives 158
Leather boot 19
Leather soles 82
Legs, diseases of 127
Light 9
Liniments 158
Linseed mash 22
Linseed-oil 108, 158
Litter 9, 135
Liver, diseases of 125
Logs to head, tie 17
Loose-boxes 9
Lotions 141, 158
Loungeing or ringing 33, 84
Lungs, inflammation of 114, 155
Mallenders and sallenders 144
Mane 14
Mange 150
Mangers 10
Martingals 40
Mash, to make 22
Megrims 153
Mercurial ointment 141, 160
Mercury.—See Calomel.
Metastasis 155
Mounting of lady in side-saddle 55
Mustard blister 160
Navicular disease 7, 134
Neck, sore 31
Nitre 117, 126
Nose, discharge from, or nasal gleet 110, 116
Noseband 42, 63
Numna or sweat-cloth 38
Oak bark 159
Oats, bruised 21
Ointments 141, 160
Operations 102
Operations, slight 104
Opium, tincture of 121, 123
Out of doors, cleaning 12, 13
Over-reach or tread 140
Pace, generally considered 34, 96
Partitions 10
Pavement 9, 10, 11, 143
Pease 20, 22
Peat or tan as bedding 10, 27
Phosphoric acid 124, 159
Picker 13, 15
Pole-chains and swinging-bars 73
Poll-evil 17, 117
Porter and ale 24, 37
Poultices 160
Private purchase 7, 90
Prizes 94, 97
Public troughs 26
Pulse 109
Purges 108, 158, 159
Purging 106
Purging, to stop 108, 121
Putting to, in draught 57
Quittor 135
Race-horses 1, 6
Racing laws 97
Racks and mangers 10
Rarey’s system 28, 102
Rearing up 52, 86
Restoratives, in work 24, 37
Riding 49
Ringing or loungeing 33
Ring-bone 144
Ringworm 148
Rollers 19, 152
Roughing and frosting 80
Runaways 71
Saddling 43
Sallenders 144
Salt 15, 125, 154, 160
Sand-cracks 138
Saving-collar 30, 61
Sedative 161
Selecting 2
Selling 89
Setons 152, 156
Sex 3
Shape 1, 3, 5, 6, 94
Sheet, shape 18
Shelly hoofs 137
Shipboard 24, 104
Shivering fits 117
Shoeing 75
Shying 88
Side-saddle, for mounting lady to 55
Side-saddle and girths 44, 45
Singeing 15
Sitfasts 151
Size 1, 2, 72, 95
Skin diseases 148, 149, 150
Smelling, sense of 89
Solitude 11, 93
Sore back 38, 151
Sore eyes 110
Sore heels 136
Sore mouth 24, 158
Sore neck 31
Sore throat 118
Sore withers 38, 151
Soundness 5
Spavin, blood 146
Spavin, bone 144
Splinter and swinging bars 73
Splints 142
Stable requisites 15
Stabling 8
Staggers 153
Staling, profuse 123
Stalls 9
Steaming the head 112
Stevens’s ointment 142, 145, 159
Stirrup irons and leathers 45, 46
Stonehenge 11, 30
Stones on the road 13, 40, 55
Stopping feet 13, 38, 76, 134
Strain of back sinew 11, 14, 82, 143
Strangles 118
Straw 9, 10
String-halt 145
Stubbornness 71, 87
Stumbling 40, 52
Surfeit 147, 149
Sweating 32
Synovia 141, 143, 146
Tar 15, 135, 138, 140, 158
Teeth 3, 24, 116
Terret-pad and belly-band 59, 61
Tinctures, administration of 158
Tips 83
Thorough-pin 146
Throat-lash or band 43
Throat, sore 118
Thrush 15, 131, 135
Traces 57
Training 28
Travelling 36, 84
Troop-horses 47, 50
Trotting 34
Turpentine 157, 158
Twitch 75, 104
Unnerving 7, 134
Urinary organs, diseases of 125, 127, 159
Ventilation 8, 18, 102, 109, 112, 115, 118
Vice 84
Vinegar 144, 158
Walking exercise 32
Warranty 5, 7
Water, externally 12, 136
Water-dressing 160
Water farcy 148
Watering 25
Wheels 73
Whip 65
Wind-galls 14, 143
Wind-sucking 153
Withers, sore 38, 151
Work 33
Worms 28, 124, 160
Worm-powder 124
Wounds 152
Wrick or wrench 144
Yellows 125
Young horses 94, 97
Zinc, chloride of 158

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