Appendix III.—-Syllabus of instruction.
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CLASS 13.—SURGICAL DISEASE AND ACCIDETS—contd.
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20.
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22.
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24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
Dislocation, verteb.
Polypus.
Tumour, non-malignant.
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malignant.
Bur.
Frost-bite.
Sting.
Saddle-gall (sore back).
Girth-gall.
Crupper-gall.
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30.
31.
32.
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34.
85.
36.
37.
Collar-gall.
Heel-rope-gall.
Head-rope-gall.
Collar-chain-gall.
Bridle and bit injuries.
Ship injuries.
Necrosis.
Osteo sarcoma.
Snake bite.
Appendix III.
(Referred to in para. 59.)
Veterinary classes—Syllabus of instruction.
British officers and soldiers.
1. INTRODUCTORY, ONE LECTURE..—Explanation of the general nature of the course;
outlines of the various subjects taught; and suggestions with reference to studies,
books, etc.
2. ELEMENTARY ANATOMY NINE LECTURES.—The leg below the knee ;the hock ; the res-
piratory and digestive tracts ; the circulation of the blood ; the skin; physiology of the skin ;
respiration and digestion.
3. CONSTRUCTION OF STABLES ; GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF HYGIENE AND SANITARY
LAWS, ONE LECTURE.—Locality ; water-supply; aspect; foundations; ventilation; roofs;
verandahs; chicks; floors; drainage; mangers; water-troughs; manure-pits; and outside
standings.
4. MANAGEMENT OF HORSES IN CANTONMENTS AND IN CAMP,FIVE LECTURES.—
Routine of stable duties; water and the different methods of watering ; grooming; clothing;
clipping ; bedding ; nose-bags; eye-fringes ; sanitation of stables and outside standings; pro-
tection against sun and weather; condition and exercise; the management of remounts;
remarks about grass-cutters' ponies; various methods of picketing; prevention of line-gear
injuries; causes and prevention of stampedes ; details of feeding of timid, delicate, and thin
horses, windsuckers, Crib-biters, bolters of food, those affected in their wind, thick-legged
horses, those which have suffered from laminitis, those subject to diarrhœa ; the different
methods of feeding horses and transport animals on service and what to avoid.
5. FORAGE AND DIETETICS,FOUR LECTURES.—The different food-stuffs in use in India
and other countries, how to feed on them ; the impositions and adulterations met with ; the
proportions of " flesh-forming " and " heat-giving " constituents of food, and their uses in the
animal economy; gram; oats; barley ; koolti; moth ; bajri; maize; bran; hay ; grass; green
food; carrots; linseed ; gruels; chaff; beans ; peas; wheat; rice ; oat-hay; sugarcane; meat;
compressed field rations ; special food-stuffs; biscuits.
6. SADDLE-FITTING, FOUR LECTURES. — The structure of the horse's back ; the principles
of saddle-fitting; the use of the numnah, pannels, blanket, etc.; description of the latest
improvements in military saddlery, girth, and stirrup-leather attachments, sweat flaps, sub-
stitutes for padding ; sore-backs and their treatment.
7. THE PRINCIPLES OF SHOEING, EIGHT LECTURES.—Evils to be avoided; a description of
the various shoes and nails in use, both machine and hand-made, and of tools used by farriers ;
the causes of loose and lost shoes ; the necessity of shoeing horses " all round " for active
service; special methods of shoeing for frost; causes, symptoms, remedies, and shoeing for
stumbling, forging, brushing, speedy-cut, over-reach, treads, thrush, corns, nail-bound,
pricked and punctured foot, quittor, sandcrack, seedy-toe, false quarter, contracted feet,
navicular disease, laminitis, side-bones and canker.
8. EMBARKATION AND MANGEMENT OF HORSE ON BOARD SHIP, TWO LEC-
-----.—Stall
fittings;
various methods of embarking and disembarking; dietetic and
sanitary measures, including ventilation, to be observed on board; practical suggestions for
landing.
9. ANTISEPTIC SURGERY, FOUR LECTURES (elementary instruction).—Nursing and general
hospital management.
10. DISEASE AND ACCIDENTS, FOURTEEN LECTURES.— Briefly the causes, symptoms,
and " first aid " treatment of cough, nasal-catarrh, the earlier stages of diseases of the lungs,
choking, diarrhœa, colic, worms, bots, poisoning by certain grasses, mud fever and cracked
heels, broken knees, sprains, windgalls, splints, ring-bone, spavin, contusions, wounds, abscesses,
scalds, burns, stings, bridle and bit injuries, lampas, rope galls, capped elbow, capped hock,
kumri, tetanus, hæmorrhage.
11. CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE, SIX LECTURES.—Anthrax, glanders, farcy,
surra, rinderpest, foot-and-mouth disease, lymphangitis epizootica ; the important nature of
these affections, and the necessity for their prompt recognition and suppression ; the causes,
symptoms, and treatment of mange, ringworm, lousiness, strangles, and bursatti.