INDEX.
ABERLORNA, experience of, 100, 109, 119, 123, 210, 213, 219
Action of horses, 148, 151, 169, 173, 181
Aloes, 25, 26
American farmers, 65, 66, 67, 74, 79, 141
— horseshoers (see Russell)
— trotters, 42
Anstruther Thompson, Colonel, 161
Antimony, 17
Apathy of horseowners, 15
Army, farriers in the, 84, 121
Arsenic, 17
Artillery horses, 174, 218
Asphalte pavement, 43, 58, 85, 88, 126, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202
Astley, Philip, 60
Attrition, 94, 95, 112, 114, 183, 193, 194, 195
Australia, 113
BACKING a load, 78, 142, 184
Bare feet, 82, 83, 84, 88, 94, 113, 114, 117, 121, 123, 124, 125, 130, 143, 154, 187, 189, 199, 208, 215, 223
Bare floors, 22, 24, 32, 65, 82, 83, 92, 115, 116, 154, 163, 189
Bars of the foot, 38, 55, 56, 100, 137, 139, 177, 221
Bearing rein, the, 26, 134, 170, 171, 176, 194
Blistering, 6, 25, 26, 27, 36, 91, 92, 97, 151
Bracy Clark, 185, 194, 195, 196
Brakes on wheels, 2, 7, 9, 11, 12, 24, 60, 86, 178, 207
Brittle hoof, 20, 46, 76, 91, 92, 93, 97, 104, 135, 139, 151, 154, 157
Broken wind, 147.
Brushing (see Cutting)
Burdett, Colonel, 91, 103, 104
CARACTACUS, 185
Cape, horses at the, 83, 141, 174
Calks, 34, 35, 37, 38, 66, 77, 78, 87, 105, 107, 178, 207
Carriage horses, 170
Carts and cart horses, 7, 27, 35
Cavalry officer, a, 154
Centennial shoe, the, 74
Charlier shoe, the, 54, 55, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 67, 69, 74, 77, 78, 140, 157, 177, 184, 200, 220
Cleft of frog, 194, 207
Climate, 81, 115, 117, 130
Clips, 43, 76, 87, 105, 107
Coffin bone, the, 34, 71, 98
Cogs, 86, 87
Cold shoeing, 36, 37, 66, 102, 105, 106, 107
Concussion, 57, 65, 72, 74, 170, 188, 222
Corns, 5, 31, 37, 61, 63, 90, 115, 151, 157
Coronet, the, 72, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94
Cowdung, 19, 31, 46, 56, 58, 92
Crib-biting, 150
Crust, or wall of hoof, 31, 33, 36, , 44, 55, 58, 71, 73, 75, 78, 98, 136, 140, 195, 221
Cutting and brushing, 5, 39, 61, 151, 157, 172, 220, 222
DAILY NEWS, the, extract from, 83
‘Daily Telegraph, ’ the, extract from, 86, 154, 161
Dalziel on corns, 90
Dentist, veterinary, 147
Docking the tail, 132, 172, 207
Donkey, the, 80, 81, 88, 129, 130
Douglas, Mr., on slippery shoes, 10
— the frog, 11, 72, 98
— hoof ointments, 19
— stride, 34
— hot shoeing, 36
— weight of shoes, 43, 167
— structure of the crust, 44, 136
— average life of the horse, 60
— structure of the sole, 72, 98
— military farriers, 84, 121
— thrush, 89
— water, litter, grease, tar, 91
— grass and roads, 94, 98
— horseshoers, 117
— navicular disease, 150
— concussion and founder, 170
— gutta percha, 171
Down hill, 2, 3, 7, 8, 11, 66, 86
Drugs, 17, 18, 19
D. S.’s letters, 223
EXPANSION, 46, 48, 50, 61, 72, 95, 144, 158, 160, 185, 194
FALSE quarter, 31, 36, 151
Fashion, 41, 87, 88, 134, 166, 172, 173, 190
Fearnley, Mr., on blistering, 92
— the horse’s head, 131
— the Charlier shoe, 140
— wood pavement, 140
— the larynx, 147
— the hunter, 156
— mutilation of foot, 179
— calks, 179
— shoes, 184
’Field, ’ the, newspaper, 40, 55, 72, 187
Fitting foot to shoe, 34, 35, 39, 106
Flints, 98, 191, 202
Flower, Mr. E. F., 26, 133, 134, 176
Foreign horses, 24, 88, 207
Founder (see Laminitis)
French army, 82, 207
Frog, the, 11, 37, 55, 56, 61, 66, 72, 74, 75, 89, 98, 137, 139, 144, 184, 189, 192, 194, 207, 221
Frost, 85, 86, 161, 191
GAUCHOS, 113
Granite pavement, 58, 85, 88, 178, 182, 187, 198, 220
Grass, 56, 94, 101, 113, 114, 154, 159, 169, 202
Greasing the hoof, 91, 92, 104
Groggy lameness (see Navicular disease)
Gutta percha, 161, 171
HEAD, the, 28, 131
Hoof ointments, 19, 31, 46, 91, 186
Hope, Sir W., 194
Horn, growth of, 33, 58, 61, 80, 109, 112, 124, 195
Hot shoeing, 35, 36, 44, 65, 66, 76, 87, 102, 107, 120
Human skin, the, 95, 98
‘Humane, ’ letter of, 220
Hunter, the, 156-164
ICE, 64, 85, 127
Impecuniosus on tips, 49
— mutilation of hoof, 51
— shoeing reform, 52
— the Charlier shoe 54
— india-rubber, 57
— three-quarter shoe, 61, 110
— ideas sprung from wrong roots, 138
— hind feet, 141
— his horses, 156
— it is the shoe that hurts the horse, 203
Improved principles, 32, 37, 38
India, cavalry in, 83
India-rubber, 57
JENNINGS, H., trainer, 143, 145, 153
KIDNEYS, irritation of, 25
LARYNX, the, 147
Laceration of horn, 73, 87, 136
Lady’s horse, the, 165-168
Lafosse, 44, 45, 46
Laminitis (founder), 34, 65, 66, 157, 170, 175
‘Lancet, ’ the, on shoeing, 125
Lawrence, Mr., 13
Life, average of, in the horse, 62
Litter, 22, 23, 24, 31, 91, 154, 182
Lock jaw, 174, 217
Ludgate Hill, 10, 12, 126, 127, 128, 129
Lunette shoe, or tip, 45, 109
Lupton, Mr., 30, 136, 137
MAYHEW on springs, 1
— sprain of tendon, 11
— servants, 14, 15
— masters, 14
— prejudices of ignorance, 25
— aloes, physicking, 26
— seedy toe and false quarter, 31, 97, 149
— tips, 49, 167
— expansion, 50, 96
— veterinary surgeons, 51, 82, 96
— nature a strict economist, 59
— foot of donkey, 80
— conceit of mankind, 81
— spavin, splint, and ringbone, 90
— the necessity of being ‘practical,’ 94
— the necessity of attrition, 95
— selfishness, ignorance, and prejudice, 117
— evil results, 134
— different aspects of disease, 149
— navicular disease, 150
— the folly of obstinacy, 152
— transpiration in the foot, 162
Mayhew on farriers, 171
— pride has no brains, 173
— the multiformity of shoes, 185
— grease and stopping, 186
— organism of the foot, 194
— unnatural restraint, 196
Mexico, 88, 130
Miles, on the horse’s foot, 46, 114, 159, 196, 204
‘Morning Advertiser, ’ the, extracts from, 83, 165
Moscow, retreat from, 82
Mules, 88, 177, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184
Mutilation of hoof, 32, 33, 35, 37, 43, 52, 58, 59, 66, 100, 104, 171, 179
NAVICULAR disease (grogginess), 5, 37, 62, 150
Nitre, 17
Nostrums, 17
OCULIST, 146, 149
Oils, 92, 97
Osmer, 77, 116, 192, 195
Overreach, 90
Overshot fetlock, 151
PARENTS, 205, 208
Park hacks, 168
Pembroke, Lord, 14, 22, 29, 35
Percival, Professor, on tips, 49
Physic, 25
Poisoning, 18, 64
Pumice foot (drop sole), 5, 57, 58, 62, 97
QUITTOR, 5, 89, 90, 151
RACE horses, 34, 144, 153
Rasping the toe, 79, 80, 112, 117, 122, 172, 195
Rest, 6, 25, 26, 97, 103
Ride and drive horse, the, 176
Ringbone, 5, 89, 90
Roads {see also Asphalte, Grranite and Wood), 49, 55, 63, 66, 70, 79, 80, 81, 86, 89, 99, 101, 122, 144, 145, 165, 169, 180, 188, 190, 191, 192, 194, 202, 215
Roaring, 147
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Roman horses, 45
Roughing, 58, 59, 86
Routine, 26, 67, 81, 82, 85, 153
Russell, American horse-shoer, 73, 75, 76, 147
Runaway horses, 2, 12
SAND, 85, 126, 127
Sandcrack, 5, 34, 36, 89, 90, 97
Santa Fe (correspondent), 153, 177, 202, 215
Sawdust, 23
Scoop-toed rolling-motion shoe, 74
Seedy toe, 5, 23, 31, 34, 36, 89, 90, 97, 147, 149, 151
Seeley shoe, the, 105, 107
Servants, 7, 14, 15, 29, 30, 39, 61
Sidebones, 5, 39, 61, 89, 157
Sires and dams, 205, 208
Slipping, 5, 10, 31, 35, 45, 48, 58, 63, 70, 72, 85, 86, 126, 127, 135, 175, 184, 202, 222
Smither, Messrs., 43, 62, 63, 68, 88
Snow, 61, 85, 87, 161
Sole, the, 33, 35, 37, 55, 56, 57, 58, , 61, 62, 70, 72, 75, 76, 77, 98, 101, 103, 104, 117, 137, 167, 192, 210
Spain, shoeing in, 36, 37, 106, 190
Spain, mules in, 182
— stables in, 190
Spavin, 5, 89, 90
Splint, 5, 39, 89, 90, 91, 101, 151
‘Sporting Gazette,’ the newspaper, 161
‘Sportsman,’ the, newspaper, 143
Springs on vehicles, 1
‘Standard,’ the, extract from, 145
Stanley, Mr., on navicular disease, 62
St. Bell, on shoeing, 58
Stevens, Mr., on the Charlier shoe, 62, 63, 78, 163, 200, 204, 220
Stone pavement, (see Granite)
Stopping the feet, 19, 31, 58, 91, 92, 186
Straw, 22, 21, 182, 190
Stride, 28, 31
Swollen legs, 22, 157
TAR, 19, 91
Teeth, 118, 171, 217
Tendons, 5, 11, 27, 39
Three-quarter shoe, 61, 78, 119, 163, 213, 221
Thrush, 5, 89, 90
Tight shoeing, 106
Tips, 11, 45, 49, 55, 58, 61, 65, 66, 67, 77, 78, 102, 109, 110, 112, 120, 140, 144, 154, 166, 193, 193-193
Toe, 31, 49, 55, 79, 80, 87, 109, 112, 121, 196, 213, 221
Trainers of racehorses, 34, 143, 145, 153
Tramways, 105, 178
Transmission of disease, 205
Transpiration in the hoof, 162
Tread, on, 31, 39, 40, 61, 80, 137, 173, 180
TRUGUAY, horses in, 88
VEGETIUS on wood paving, 116
Veterinary dentist, 148
WATER-CURE, the, 91, 92
Weaving, 150
Weight of dirt, 158
— shoe, 35, 42, 77, 105, 158, 167, 171, 220
Wind, broken, 147
Windsucking, 150
Wood pavement, 85, 88, 126, 140, 198, 199
XENOPHON, 22, 116, 188
YOUATT, 26, 42, 77, 95, 158
ZULU war, the, 83, 84
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