Chapter 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

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