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Fees and allowances.—Appendix IV.
12. MEDICINES, ONCE A WEEK.—The action, uses, and administration of the simpler
medicines.
Practical Instruction.
CONFORMATION.—Horse, mule, bullock, and camel; distinctive marks and points ; hints
on purchasing for active service.
AGEING.—Horses, mules, bullocks, and camels ; impositions practised.
LAMENESS.—Varieties; aids in detection; necessity for close and accurate observation;
seats of disease ; how to examine the foot; handling, bandaging, fomenting, poulticing,
slinging, throwing a horse, how to arrest hæmorrhage.
SADDLE-FITTING.—Causes and prevention of sore backs, collar and girth galls; means
whereby horses on emergency can be kept at work.
HINTS FOR SERVICE.—Grooming, watering, feeding, line injuries, methods of picketing,
picketing rings.
SHOBING.—Ordinary and special; frost cogs, and steel-headed frost nails.
CLINICAL.—Operations, the dressing of wounds, and treatment of simple cases ; adminis-
tration of simple medicines, liniments, blisters, etc.
Natives.
1. INTRODUCTORY.—Explanation of course of instruction, rules of attendance, etc.
2. ANATOMY.—Elementary anatomy of the chest, abdomen, skin, and leg below the knee,
including the foot. The circulation of the blood, the pulse, temperature, respiration, and
explanation of digestion.
3. MANAGEMENT OF SICK HORSES.—Watering; feeding; grooming;
clothing;
bedding; protection from sun, flies and weather ; sanitation of hospital, stables and outside
standings.
4. FOOD-STUFF.—How to feed on gram, barley, maize, bran, hay (grass). The use of
green food, chaff, carrots, linseed.
5. PRINCIPLES OF SHOEING.—Evils to be avoided; the uses of pathological shoes.
6. DISEASE OF FOOT.—Causes, symptoms, remedies, and shoeing for brushing, speedy-
cut, over-reach, treads, corns, thrush, canker, pricked and punctured feet, sandcrack,
laminitis.
7. DISEASES AND ACCIDENTS—Causes, symptoms, and "first aid" treatment of fever,
disease of the lungs, diarrhœa, colic, lampas, bridle and bit injuries, broken knees, sprained
sinews, cracked heels and rope galls ; wounds and their antiseptic treatment.
8. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.—Causes, symptoms, treatment and suppression of anthrax,
glanders, farcy, rinderpest, foot-and-mouth disease, lymphangitis epizootica, mange, and
strangles.
Practical Instruction.
HOSPITAL WORK.—The seats of, and how to recognise diseases; treatment, nursing and
management of minor cases ; assisting at operations ; how to sling and throw a horse ; arrest
hæmorrhage; dress wounds; how to give balls, drenches ; how to make and apply liniments,
blisters, ointment; handling ; bandaging ; fomenting ; poulticing ; how to take the pulse ;
temperature; respiration.
MEDICINES.—Actions, uses, doses ; administration of simple medicines, pharmacy work,
compounding.
LAMENESS.—Varieties; how to detect; how to examine for disease.
SHOEING.—Demonstration of good, faulty, and pathological shoeing ; the various kinds and
uses of shoes and farriers' tools.
SADDLE-FITTING.
Appendix IV.
Fees and allowances,
1. An officer of the A. V. D. on duty —
(i) as a member of a judging committee at a horse fair or show—is entitled to double
first class fare by rail and 8 annas a mile by road, and to an allowance of Rs. 5 for each day
he halts;
(ii) under the provisions of the Glanders and Farcy Act within a radius of five miles
from the cantonment in which he is quartered—is entitled to a fee of R16 for each centre
at which he makes an examination. Should suspicious cases be reported at two or more
serais or stages on a dâk line, he is entitled to a separate fee for the examination made at
each place ;
(iii) under the provisions of the Glanders and Farcy Act outside a radius of five miles
from the cantonment in which he is quartered is similarly entitled to a fee of R16
for each centre at which he makes an examination and to the travelling and detention
allowances admissible to a veterinary officer visiting an out-station on duty (see A. R I.,
Vols. I and X);