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Appendix III.—Syllabus of instructions.
Appendix III,
(Referred to in para. 64.)
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
respiratory 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 ; koolthi ; moth ; bajri; maize; bran; hay; grass
green food ; carrots ; linseed ; gruels ; chaff ; beans ; peas ; wheat; rice ; oat-hay; ; sugar-
cane ; 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
picked and punctured foot, quittor, sandcrack, seedy-toe, false quarter, contracted feet,
navicular disease, laminitis, side-bones and canker.
8. EMBARKATION AND MANAGEMENT OF HORSES ON BOARD SHIP, TWO LECTURES.—
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. DISEASES 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 DISEASES, 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.
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 camel ; 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.