# Horses and roads/Index

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 Royal Agricultural Society, {{HAR|204|}Royal Agricultural Society} 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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