[33] A few of the low class of horsedealers are very clever at passing off a cribber or wind-sucker.

I have known cases where one might remain in a stable for hours with a cribber and not detect him. By keeping a continual watch over the animal and thrashing him directly he attempts to crib, he has been taught to beware of transgressing in this style in the presence of any one, and thus even a veterinary surgeon may be deceived, for he is not supposed to lose his time looking after such details of trickery.

[34] For example, an animal is in nearly a hopeless state from inflammation of the lungs and pleura, perhaps as a complication of distemper. Suddenly there is an amelioration in the symptoms; the hurried breathing resumes the characteristics of ordinary respiration—the owner, or veterinary surgeon in attendance, pronounces the patient to be out of danger—the improvement is regarded as almost miraculous. But in about twenty-four hours, often less, the horse is observed to move with difficulty in the stable; if he lies down, he is disinclined to get up; when standing, the fore feet are kept considerably more in advance than usual, the hind ones far forward under the body, so that they may as much as possible relieve the fore feet and legs from the superincumbent weight. In aggravated cases, as the heels of the fore feet are the parts which bear the most weight in progression, the horse, when forced to walk, which he can only accomplish with great difficulty, elevates the toe at every step, bringing the heel, instead of it, to the ground. The horse is then suffering from acute laminitis, or what is more generally in horse-parlance termed “founder.”

[35] Prepared and sold by Mr H. R. Stevens, V.S., 8a Park Lane, London, W., and all chemists.

[36] The use of the clyster syringe by unskilled hands is very dangerous—serious injury to the rectum being the common result; therefore great caution should be used to insert the pipe (well greased) slowly and not too high up the channel.

INDEX.

Page
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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