Chapter 73

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-- 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