Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

Chapter 74

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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, 310

Sprain-- of elbow muscles, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 368 of fetlock, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 402

Sprains-- description and treatment, 365-374, 392-394 of loins, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 392 of suspensory ligaments and of flexor tendons or their sheath, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 371-372

Sprung knees, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 373

Staphyloma, or bulging cornea, description and treatment, 296

Stallion-- castration, methods, 168 sterility, cause and treatment, 172

Sterility in mare and stallion, cause and treatment, 172

Stiles, Ch. Wardell, chapter on "Surra", 572-577

Stock vaccines, administration, 506

Stomach-- and intestines, diseases, remarks, 65 calculi, or stones, symptoms and treatment, 70 rupture, result of engorgement colic, symptoms and treatment 68 worms, description, etc., 91-92

Stomatitis, description and treatment, 60

Stone-- in bladder, vesical calculus, or cystic calculus, description, symptoms, and treatment, 160 in urethra, or urethral calculus, description, symptoms, and treatment, 162 or calculus, and tumor in bladder, 190 urinary calculi, or gravel, description, 154, 157

Stones-- or calculi, in intestines, description, symptoms, and treatment, 71 or calculi, in stomach, symptoms and treatment, 70

Strangles, definition, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 527-531

Strangulated spermatic cord, cause and treatment, 170

_Streptococcus pyogenes equi_, cause of pneumonia, 522

Stricture-- of esophagus, description and treatment, 65 of urethra, description and treatment, 153

Stringhalt, description, cause and treatment, 227, 390

Strongyles, injuries to horses, symptoms and treatment, 92-93

_Strongylus_-- _equinum_, parasite of kidney, 146 spp. injuries by and treatment, 92-93 _vulgaris_, worm causing one form of aneurism, 265

Sty, furuncle, or boil of eyelid, description and treatment, 282

Suffraginis, description, 395

Summer sores, caused by _Filaria irritans_, description and treatment, 469, 470

Sunstroke, heat stroke, or heat exhaustion, symptoms, treatment, etc., 219

Superpurgation, description and treatment, 78

Suppositories, description and uses, 48

Suppuration and abscess in lung, symptoms, 127

Surfeit, nettlerash, or urticaria, description and treatment, 467

Surra-- chapter by Ch. Wardell Stiles, 572-577 climatic conditions, animals affected, and lethality, 572 diagnosis and treatment, 577 method of infection, symptoms, 573

Suspensory ligament-- and flexor tendons, or their sheaths, sprains, cause, symptoms, treatment, 371-372 description, 395 rupture, description, symptoms, and treatment, 403

Sutures, description and uses, 486

Swamp fever. _See_ Infectious anemia.

Sweat glands, description, 461

_Symbiotes equi_, _Dermatophagus equi_, or _Chorioptes spathiferus_, animal parasite of skin, 480

Syncope, or fainting, symptoms and treatment, 259

Synovial-- dropsies, remarks, 355 sacs, diseases, description, 355

Synovitis, cause, prognosis, and treatment, 357

Tail and rectum, paralysis, cause, 230

Tapeworms, horse, kind and injuries, 90

Tarantula and scorpion, treatment for bite and sting, 483

Teats, sore, scabs, cracks, warts, cause, and treatment, 209

Teeth-- diseases period of dentition, 58 irregularities, remedies, 58

Temperament of horse, 10

Temperature, method of determining, 15

Tendon sheaths, wounds, description and treatment, 494

Tendons-- and muscles, diseases, 365 flexor, or their sheath, sprains, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 371 functions, 301 lacerated, cause, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, 376 of foot, function, 396

Testicles-- abnormal number, causes of degeneration, 166 or orchitis, congestion and inflammation, causes, symptoms, treatment, 166

Tetanus, or lockjaw, causes, symptoms, prevention, and treatment, 241

Thick wind and roaring, description and treatment, 108

Thigh, spasm, or cramp of hind limb, description and treatment, 226

Thoracic choke, description and treatment, 63, 64

Thoroughpin, blood spavin, and bog spavin, description and treatment, 356

Threadworms, cause of bleeding skin eruptions, 469

Throat-- abscesses affecting, treatment, 62 sore, or laryngitis, description, symptoms, and treatment, 103

Thrombosis, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 391

Thrombus and embolism, description, symptoms, and treatment, 267

Thrush, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 417

Thumps, or spasm of diaphragm, description and treatment, 132, 225

Tibia, fractures, symptoms and treatment, 349

Ticks, description and treatment, 481

Timothy, best hay for feeding, 53

_Tinea tonsurans_, or circinate ringworm, description and treatment, 477

Tissues, description, 27

Tobacco dip, use against mange in horses, 479

Toothache, how to determine and treat, 59

Trichiasis, or turned eyelashes, description and treatment, 283

_Trichophyton tonsurans_, vegetable parasite of skin, 477

Trumbower, M. R.-- chapter on "Diseases of heart, blood vessels, and lymphatics", 247-273 chapter on "Diseases of nervous system", 210-246

_Trypanosoma equiperdum_, cause of dourine, note, 562

Tuberculosis, or consumption, note, 128

Tumor-- and calculus, or stone in bladder, 190 of haw, or caries of cartilage, description and treatment, 284 of nerve, or neuroma, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 236 on spermatic cord, causes and treatment, 171

Tumors-- and warts of eyelids, description and treatment, 283 black pigment, or melanosis, description and treatment, 476 in nostrils, treatment, 97 in vagina and pelvis, description and treatment, 188 of eyeball, remarks, 296 of fetus, or inclosed ovum, description and treatment, 194 of kidneys, note, 146 of spine, symptoms and treatment, 236 of udder, cause and treatment, 209 of abnormal growths, cause of colic, 73 within cranium, description of kinds, 224

Twins, remarks, 196

Tympanitic colic, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 73

Udder-- congestion and inflammation, symptoms and treatment, 208 tumors, cause and treatment, 209

Ulceration, description, causes, and treatment, 499

Ulcers on cornea, treatment, 288

Umbilical hernia, description and treatment, 84

Urachus, persistent, or discharge of urine by navel, description and treatment, 151

Uremia, description, symptoms, and treatment, 245

Urethra-- inflammation, urethritis, or gleet, symptoms and treatment, 153 stone, or urethral calculus, description, symptoms, and treatment, 162 stricture, description and treatment, 153

Urethral calculi, description and treatment, 159

Urethral calculus, or stone in urethra, description, symptoms, and treatment, 162

Urethritis, inflammation of urethra, or gleet, symptoms, and treatment, 153

Urinary-- and sexual organs, examination, 24 calculi, classification, 157 calculi, stone, or gravel, description and causes, 154, 157 disorders, causes, 134 organs, diseases, chapter by James Law, 134-163 organs, parasites affecting, 146 organs, symptoms of disease, 136 organs, uses, 134

Urine-- analysis, 154 bloody, or hematuria, cause and treatment, 141 discharge by navel, or persistent urachus, description and treatment, 151 excessive secretion, diuresis, polyuria, diabetes insipidus, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 138 how to examine, 136 of healthy horse, description, 25

Urocystitis, inflammation of bladder, or cystitis, symptoms and treatment, 149

Urticaria, nettlerash, or surfeit, description and treatment, 467

Vaccination-- use against diseases and manufacture of material, 510 use against strangles and anthrax, 531, 544

Vaccines, kinds and use, 506, 531

Vagina-- and pelvis, tumors affecting, description and treatment, 188 rupture, description and treatment, 207

Vaginal walls, effusion of blood, 190

Valvular disease of heart, symptoms and treatment, 257

Varicocele, description and treatment, 166

Varicose veins, varix, or dilatation of veins, causes and treatment, 269

Variola, equine, or horsepox, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 535-540

Veins-- description, 250 dilatation, varicose veins, or varix, causes and treatment, 269 diseases, or phlebitis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 268

Ventral hernia, description and treatment, 83

Vertebra, fractures, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 338

Vesical calculus, stone in bladder, or cystic calculus, description, symptoms, and treatment, 159

Vesicular mole, or cystic disease of walls of womb, description and treatment, 179

Volvulus, gut-tie, or twisting of bowels, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 72

Vulva, or vagina, fibrous constriction, cause and treatment, 191

Warts-- and tumors of eyelids, description and treatment, 283 description and treatment, 476 on penis, treatment, 167

Wasps, bees, and hornets, stings, treatment, 483

Water-- impure, cause of disease, time to give, 49 in head, or hydrocephalus of foal, description and treatment, 192

Watering eye, or obstruction of lachrymal apparatus, description and remedy, 285

Whistling, description, 110

Wind-- broken, heaves, or asthma, definition, symptoms, and treatment, 128 colic, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 73

Windgalls, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 355, 401

Windpipe, description, 119

Winking cartilage, or cartilago nictitans, description, 276

Womb-- and peritoneum, inflammation, symptoms, and treatment, 206 bleeding, or flooding, treatment, 205 dropsy, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 179 eversion, description and method of treatment, 205 hernia, description and treatment, 189 laceration, or rupture, causes and treatment, 206 neck, twisting, description and treatment, 189

Worm colic, notes 93

Worms-- bladder, affecting kidneys, 146 injuries by, and treatment, 90-94 strongyle, danger and treatment, 92-93 treatment with dips, 479

Wounds-- and their treatment, chapter by Ch. B. Michener, 484-506 gunshot, description and treatment, 494 healing under a scab, treatment, 487 in nostrils, cause and treatment, 97 lacerated and contused, description and treatment, 488 penetrating walls of chest, description and treatment, 131 poisoned, description and treatment, 495 punctured, description, symptoms, and treatment, 426, 490

Yellows, jaundice, or icterus, description and treatment, 88

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