Farriery improv'd: or, a compleat treatise upon the art of farriery : wherein is fully explain'd, the nature, structure, and mechanism of that noble and useful creature, a horse ...

Abstract

Chap. I. the Signs of Sickness in Horses Chap. II. Discovering fome Errors in the Methods usually taken to prevent Diseases in Horses, with an Account of the most proper Means to preserve Health Chap/. III. Contains some general Rules to be ob- served in bleeding and purging Horfes I 3 Chap. IV. Of the Strangles 22 Chap. V. Of the Baftard Strangles 29 Chap. VI. Of Fevers 33 Chap. VII. Of a Symptomatic Fever 37 Chap. VIII. Of Surfeits 41 Chap. IX. Of Difeafes of the Head. And fir ft, of the Head-ach 81 Chap.X. Of the Staggers 88 Chap. XI. Of Difeafes of the Eye, with an Ac- count of its Parts 99 Chap. XII. The Theory of Vifion confedered, with fome of the Difeafes of the Eye 113 Chap. XIII. Of Difeafes of the Eye in general 120 Chap. XIV. Of Wounds or Bloivs on the Eye, and other external Accidents I 2 3 C H a p. X V. Of rheumy and inflated Eyes 131 Chap. XVI. Of Moon Eves, or Lunatic Eyes 135 Chap. XVII. Of Films, Webs, &c. caufing Dim- nefs of Sight 13 8 Chap. XVIII. Of Colds, or (what Farriers call) Mor-fou&dering • 149 Chap. XIX. Of Cheft-foundering , and broken- winded Horfes 160 Chap. XX. Of the Glanders, or Mourning of the Chine 167 Chap. XXI. Of the Strangles, Baftard Strangles, and Vitrei 1 80 Chap. XXII. Of the Anticor 192 ■ Chap. XXIII. Of Difeafes of the Stomach andGuts 195 Chap-Chap. XXIV. Of the Cholkk Page 200 Chap. XXV. Of the Lax, or Scouring, in Horfes 2,3 Chap. XXVI. Of Worms, Bots, and Truncheons 221 Chap. XXVII. Of Pain in the Bowels from fud- den Accidents 233 Chap. XXVIII. Of the Yellows, or Jaundice 238 Chap. XXIX. OfDifeafes of the Reins and Blad- der i/tf Chap. XXX. Of the Bolt-Evil, and Mattering- of the Yard 257 Chap. XXXI. Of the Drcffy in Horfes 262 Chap. XXXII. Of Hide-bound Horfes 275 Chap. XXXIII. Of the Farcin in Horfes 278 Chap. XXXIV. Of the Mange, or Scab, in Horfes 286 Chap. XXXV. Of Tumours, Impofiumes, and Wounds in general 288 Chap. XXXVI, Of a Gangrene and Mortification 302 Chap. XXXVII. Of venomous Bites, as of the mad Do?, &c. in Horfes 305 Chap. XXXVIII. OfFiftulds, old Wounds, &c. 3'4 Chap. XXXIX. Of Rowelling Horjes • 320 Chap. XL. Of the Lampas, Barbs, Wolves-Teeth, Splents, Spavins, and Ring-Bones 322 Chap. XLI. Of the Poll-Evil, Bruifes in the Wi- thers, Warbles in the Back, &c. 326 Chap. XLli. Of a Shoulder'Wrench, Shoulder- Slip, Sinemi-Sprain, &c. 335 Chap. XLIII. Of the Mallenders, Sallenders, Sec. 339 Chap. XLIV. Of the Greafe andScratches, Mules and KiVd Heels 340 Chap. XLV. Officiating, and narrow Heels 348 Chap. XLVI. Of Gravel, Nails, &C. in the Foot 35°