Special Report on Diseases of the Horse, by Drs. Pearson, et al

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Pearson, Leonard, 1868-1909

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Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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Horses -- Diseases

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1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, — BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. — A. D. MELVIN, Chief of Bureau. — SPECIAL REPORT — ON — DISEASES OF THE HORSE. — BY
3. 3.Drs. PEARSON, MICHENER, LAW, HARBAUGH, TRUMBOWER, LIAUTARD, HOLCOMBE, HUIDEKOPER, MOHLER, EICHHORN, HALL, AND ADAMS. — REVISED EDITION, 1916.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS. — PLATES. — TEXT FIGURES.
6. 6.SPECIAL REPORT ON DISEASES OF THE HORSE.
7. 7.THE EXAMINATION OF A SICK HORSE. — By Leonard Pearson, B. S., V. M. D. — HISTORY. — ATTITUDE AND GENERAL CONDITION. — THE SKIN AND THE VISIBLE MUCOUS MEMBRANES. — THE ORGANS OF CIRCULATION. — TEMPERATURE. — THE ORGANS OF RESPIRATION. — THE EXAMINATION OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT. — THE EXAMINATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. — URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS.
8. 8.FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF DISEASE. — By Rush Shippen Huidekoper , M. D., Vet . — [Revised by Leonard Pearson, B. S., V. M. D.] — ANIMAL TISSUES. — CONGESTION. — ACTIVE CONGESTION. — PASSIVE CONGESTION. — INFLAMMATION. — FEVERS.
9. 9.METHODS OF ADMINISTERING MEDICINES. — By Ch. B. Michener , V. S. — [Revised by Leonard Pearson, B. S., V. M. D.]
10. 10.DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. — By Ch. B. Michener , V. S. — [Revised by John R. Mohler, V. M. D.] — WATER. — FEEDS AND FEEDING. — KINDS OF FEED. — PREPARATION OF FEEDS. — DISEASES OF THE TEETH. — DISEASES OF THE MOUTH. — DISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS OR GULLET. — DISEASES OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES. — INDIGESTION OR GASTROINTESTINAL CATARRH. — DIARRHEA. — DYSENTERY. — GASTROENTERITIS. — HEMORRHOIDS, OR PILES. — HERNIA, OR RUPTURE. — PERITONITIS. — ASCITES, OR DROPSY OF THE ABDOMEN. — DISEASES OF THE LIVER. — HEPATITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER. — JAUNDICE, ICTERUS, OR THE YELLOWS. — RUPTURE OF THE LIVER. — BILIARY CALCULI, OR GALLSTONES. — DISEASES OF THE PANCREAS AND SPLEEN. — GASTROINTESTINAL PARASITES. — [By Maurice C. Hall, Ph. D., D. V. M.]
11. 11.DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. — By W. S. Harbaugh , V. S. — [Revised by Leonard Pearson, B. S., V. M. D.] — CAUSES OF DISEASES OF RESPIRATORY ORGANS. — WOUNDS ABOUT THE NOSTRILS. — TUMORS WITHIN THE NOSTRILS. — COLD IN THE HEAD, OR NASAL CATARRH. — CHRONIC CATARRH (OR NASAL GLEET, OR COLLECTION IN THE SINUSES). — THICKENING OF THE NASAL MEMBRANE. — NASAL POLYPUS. — PHARYNGEAL POLYPUS. — BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE. — INFLAMMATION OF THE PHARYNX. — SORE THROAT, OR LARYNGITIS. — SPASM OF THE LARYNX. — CROUP AND DIPHTHERIA. — THICK WIND AND ROARING. — CHRONIC BRONCHITIS. — THE LUNGS. — CONGESTION OF THE LUNGS. — PNEUMONIA, OR LUNG FEVER. — THE WINDPIPE. — GUTTURAL POUCHES. — BRONCHITIS AND BRONCHO-PNEUMONIA. — PLEURISY. — PLEUROPNEUMONIA. — BRONCHO-PLEUROPNEUMONIA. — SUPPURATION AND ABSCESS IN THE LUNG. — MORTIFICATION. — HEMOPTYSIS, OR BLEEDING FROM THE LUNGS. — TUBERCULOSIS OF THE LUNGS. — HEAVES, BROKEN WIND, OR ASTHMA. — CHRONIC COUGH. — PLEURODYNIA. — WOUNDS PENETRATING THE WALLS OF THE CHEST. — THUMPS, OR SPASM OF THE DIAPHRAGM. — RUPTURE OF THE DIAPHRAGM.
12. 12.DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS. — By James Law, F. R. C. V. S. , — Formerly Professor of Veterinary Science, etc., in Cornell University. — USES OF THE URINARY ORGANS. — PROMINENT CAUSES OF URINARY DISORDERS. — GENERAL SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE. — EXAMINATION OF THE URINE. — DIURESIS (POLYURIA, DIABETES INSIPIDUS, OR EXCESSIVE SECRETION OF URINE). — SACCHARINE DIABETES (DIABETES MELLITUS, GLYCOSURIA, OR INOSURIA). — HEMATURIA (BLOODY URINE). — HEMOGLOBINURIA (AZOTURIA, AZOTEMIA, POISONING BY ALBUMINOIDS). — ACUTE INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS, OR ACUTE NEPHRITIS. — CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS. — TUMORS OF THE KIDNEYS. — PARASITES. — SPASM OF THE NECK OF THE BLADDER. — PARALYSIS OF THE BLADDER. — INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER (CYSTITIS, OR UROCYSTITIS). — IRRITABLE BLADDER. — DISEASED GROWTHS IN THE BLADDER. — DISCHARGE OF URINE BY THE NAVEL, OR PERSISTENT URACHUS. — EVERSION OF THE BLADDER. — INFLAMMATION OF THE URETHRA (URETHRITIS, OR GLEET). — STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA. — URINARY CALCULI (STONE, OR GRAVEL). — CLASSIFICATION OF URINARY CALCULI.
13. 13.DISEASES OF THE GENERATIVE ORGANS. — By James Law, F. R. C. V. S., — Formerly Professor of Veterinary Science, etc., in Cornell University. — CONGESTION AND INFLAMMATION OF THE TESTICLES, OR ORCHITIS. — SARCOCELE. — HYDROCELE, OR DROPSY OF THE SCROTUM. — VARICOCELE. — ABNORMAL NUMBER OF TESTICLES. — DEGENERATION OF THE TESTICLES. — WARTS ON THE PENIS. — DEGENERATION OF PENIS (PAPILLOMA, OR EPITHELIOMA). — EXTRAVASATION OF BLOOD IN THE PENIS. — PARALYSIS OF THE PENIS. — SELF-ABUSE, OR MASTURBATION. — DOURINE. — CASTRATION. — CASTRATION OF STALLIONS. — CASTRATION OF CRYPTORCHIDS (RIDGLINGS). — CONDITIONS FOLLOWING CASTRATION. — CASTRATION BY THE COVERED OPERATION. — CASTRATION OF THE MARE. — STERILITY. — PREGNANCY. — INDICATIONS OF PREGNANCY. — DURATION OF PREGNANCY. — HYGIENE OF THE PREGNANT MARE. — EXTRA-UTERINE GESTATION. — MOLES, OR ANIDIAN MONSTERS. — CYSTIC DISEASE OF THE WALLS OF THE WOMB, OR VESICULAR MOLE. — DROPSY OF THE WOMB. — DROPSY OF THE AMNION. — DROPSY OF THE LIMBS, PERINEUM, AND ABDOMEN. — CRAMPS OF THE HIND LIMBS. — CONSTIPATION. — PARALYSIS. — PROLONGED RETENTION OF THE FETUS (FOAL). — ABORTION. — INFECTIOUS ABORTION IN MARES. — PARTURITION. — SYMPTOMS OF PARTURITION. — NATURAL PRESENTATION. — PREMATURE LABOR PAINS. — DIFFICULT PARTURITION. — ABNORMAL PRESENTATIONS. — (Pls. XV-XVIII.) — EMBRYOTOMY. — FLOODING, OR BLEEDING FROM THE WOMB. — EVERSION OF THE WOMB. — RUPTURE, OR LACERATION, OF THE WOMB. — RUPTURES OF THE VAGINA. — BLOOD CLOTS IN THE WALLS OF THE VAGINA. — LAMINITIS, OR FOUNDER, FOLLOWING PARTURITION. — INFLAMMATION OF THE WOMB AND PERITONEUM. — LEUCORRHEA. — DISEASES OF THE UDDER AND TEATS. — CONGESTION AND INFLAMMATION OF THE UDDER. — TUMORS OF THE UDDER. — SORE TEATS, SCABS, CRACKS, WARTS.
14. 14.DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. — By M. R. Trumbower, V. S. — [Revised by John R. Mohler, A. M., V. M. D.] — ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM. — Inflammation of the Brain and its Membranes (Encephalitis, Meningitis, Cerebritis). — CONGESTION OF THE BRAIN, OR MEGRIMS. — SUNSTROKE, HEAT STROKE, OR HEAT EXHAUSTION. — APOPLEXY OR CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE. — COMPRESSION OF THE BRAIN. — CONCUSSION OF THE BRAIN. — ANEMIA OF THE BRAIN. — HYDROCEPHALUS, OR DROPSY OF THE BRAIN. — TUMORS WITHIN THE CRANIUM. — SPASMS, OR CRAMPS. — CHOREA, OR ST. VITUS'S DANCE. — EPILEPSY, OR FALLING FITS. — PARALYSIS, OR PALSY. — SPINAL MENINGITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE MEMBRANES ENVELOPING THE SPINAL CORD. — MYELITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE SUBSTANCE OF THE SPINAL CORD. — SPINAL CONGESTION. — SPINAL ANEMIA. — SPINAL COMPRESSION. — SPINAL HEMORRHAGE. — SPINAL CONCUSSION. — SPINAL TUMORS. — NEURITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF A NERVE. — NEUROMA, OR TUMOR OF A NERVE. — INJURIES TO NERVES. — FORAGE POISONING, OR SO-CALLED CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS. — TETANUS, OR LOCKJAW. — RABIES, HYDROPHOBIA, OR MADNESS. — PLUMBISM, OR LEAD POISONING. — UREMIA. — ELECTRIC SHOCK.
15. 15.DISEASES OF THE HEART, BLOOD VESSELS, AND LYMPHATICS. — By M. R. Trumbower, V. S. — [Revised by Leonard Pearson, B. S., V. M. D.] — ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HEART AND BLOOD VESSELS. — DISEASES OF THE HEART AND BLOOD VESSELS. — MYOCARDITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE MUSCULAR STRUCTURE OF THE HEART. — ENDOCARDITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE LINING MEMBRANE OF THE HEART. — PERICARDITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE SAC INCLOSING THE HEART. — VALVULAR DISEASE OF THE HEART. — ADVENTITIOUS GROWTHS IN THE HEART. — PALPITATION OF THE HEART. — SYNCOPE, OR FAINTING. — HYPERTROPHY OF THE HEART, OR CARDIAC ENLARGEMENT. — DILATATION OF THE HEART. — FATTY DEGENERATION OF THE HEART. — RUPTURE OF THE HEART. — WEAKNESS OF THE HEART. — CONGESTION OF THE HEART — CYANOSIS OF NEWBORN FOALS. — DISEASES OF ARTERIES, OR ARTERITIS AND ENDARTERITIS. — ATHEROMA. — CONSTRICTION OF AN ARTERY. — ANEURISM. — RUPTURE OF AN ARTERY. — THROMBUS AND EMBOLISM. — DISEASES OF VEINS, OR PHLEBITIS. — VARICOSE VEINS, VARIX, OR DILATATION OF VEINS. — AIR IN VEINS, OR AIR EMBOLISM. — PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA. — DISEASES OF THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM. — LOCAL INFLAMMATION AND ABSCESS OF LYMPHATIC GLANDS. — LYMPHANGITIS.
16. 16.DISEASES OF THE EYE. — By James Law, F. R. C. V. S. , — Formerly Professor of Veterinary Science, etc., Cornell University . — STRUCTURE OF THE EYE. — THE EYEBALL. — MUSCLES OF THE EYE. — THE HAW (THE WINKING CARTILAGE, OR CARTILAGO NICTITANS). — LACRIMAL APPARATUS. — EXAMINATION OF THE EYE. — DISEASES OF THE EYELIDS. — CONGENITAL DISORDERS. — NERVOUS DISORDERS. — INFLAMMATION OF THE EYELIDS. — STY, OR FURUNCLE (BOIL) OF THE EYELID. — ENTROPION AND ECTROPION, OR INVERSION AND EVERSION OF THE EYELID. — TRICHIASIS. — WARTS AND OTHER TUMORS OF THE EYELIDS. — TORN EYELIDS OR WOUNDS OF EYELIDS. — TUMOR OF THE HAW, OR CARIES OF THE CARTILAGE. — OBSTRUCTION OF THE LACRIMAL APPARATUS, OR WATERING EYE. — EXTERNAL OPHTHALMIA, OR CONJUNCTIVITIS. — WHITE SPECKS AND CLOUDINESS OF THE CORNEA. — ULCERS OF THE CORNEA. — INTERNAL OPHTHALMIA (IRITIS, CHOROIDITIS, AND RETINITIS). — RECURRENT OPHTHALMIA (PERIODIC OPHTHALMIA, OR MOON-BLINDNESS). — CATARACT. — PALSY OF THE NERVE OF SIGHT, OR AMAUROSIS. — TUMORS OF THE EYEBALL. — STAPHYLOMA. — PARASITES IN THE EYE. — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.LAMENESS: ITS CAUSES AND TREATMENT. — By A. Liautard, M. D., V. M. , — [Revised by John R. Mohler, A. M., V. M. D.] — ANATOMY. — DEFINITION OF LAMENESS. — HOW TO DETECT THE SEAT OF LAMENESS. — DISEASES OF BONES. — PERIOSTITIS, OSTITIS, AND EXOSTOSIS. — SPLINTS. — RINGBONES. — SIDEBONES. — SPAVIN. — FRACTURES. — FRACTURE OF CRANIAL BONES. — FRACTURES OF THE BONES OF THE FACE. — FRACTURES OF THE PREMAXILLARY BONE. — FRACTURES OF THE LOWER JAW. — FRACTURES OF VERTEBRÆ. — FRACTURE OF THE RIBS. — FRACTURES OF THE BONES OF THE PELVIS. — FRACTURE OF THE SCAPULA. — FRACTURES OF THE HUMERUS. — FRACTURES OF THE FOREARM. — FRACTURE OF THE KNEE. — FRACTURE OF THE FEMUR. — FRACTURE OF THE PATELLA. — FRACTURES OF THE TIBIA. — FRACTURES OF THE HOCK. — FRACTURES OF THE CANNON BONES. — FRACTURE OF THE FIRST PHALANX. — FRACTURES OF THE SECOND PHALANX (CORONET). — FRACTURES OF THE THIRD PHALANX (OS PEDIS). — FRACTURE OF THE SESAMOID BONES. — DISEASES OF JOINTS. — DISEASES OF THE SYNOVIAL SACS. — SYNOVIAL DROPSIES. — WINDGALLS. — BLOOD SPAVIN, BOG SPAVIN, AND THOROUGHPIN. — OPEN JOINTS, BROKEN KNEES, SYNOVITIS, AND ARTHRITIS. — DISLOCATIONS. — THE SHOULDER JOINT. — THE HIP JOINT. — PSEUDO-LUXATIONS OF THE PATELLA. — DISEASES OF MUSCLES AND TENDONS. — SPRAINS. — LAMENESS OF THE SHOULDER. — SPRAIN OF THE ELBOW MUSCLES. — HIP LAMENESS. — SPRAINS OF SUSPENSORY LIGAMENTS AND OF FLEXOR TENDONS OR THEIR SHEATHS. — KNUCKLING OF FETLOCK. — SPRUNG KNEES. — CURB. — LACERATED TENDONS. — RUPTURE OF THE FLEXOR METATARSI. — SUNDRY ADDITIONAL AFFECTIONS OF THE EXTREMITIES. — CAPPED ELBOW. — CAPPED KNEE. — CAPPED HOCK. — INTERFERING, AND SPEEDY CUTS. — STRINGHALT. — THROMBOSIS. — SPRAINS OF THE LOINS. — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.DISEASES OF THE FETLOCK, ANKLE, AND FOOT. — By A. A. Holcombe , D. V. S., — Veterinary Inspector, Bureau of Animal Industry. — ANATOMICAL REVIEW OF THE FOOT. — FAULTS OF CONFORMATION. — INTERFERING. — KNUCKLING, OR COCKED ANKLES. — WINDGALL. — SPRAIN OF THE FETLOCK. — RUPTURE OF THE SUSPENSORY LIGAMENT. — OVERREACH. — CALK WOUNDS. — FROSTBITES. — QUITTOR. — CUTANEOUS QUITTOR. — TENDINOUS QUITTOR. — SUBHORNY QUITTOR. — CARTILAGINOUS QUITTOR. — THRUSH. — CANKER. — CORNS. — BRUISE OF THE FROG. — PUNCTURED WOUNDS OF THE FOOT. — CONTRACTED HEELS, OR HOOFBOUND. — SAND CRACKS. — NAVICULAR DISEASE. — SIDEBONES. — RINGBONE. — LAMINITIS, OR FOUNDER.
19. 19.DISEASES OF THE SKIN. — By James Law , F. R. C. V. S., — Formerly Professor of Veterinary Science, etc., Cornell University. — STRUCTURE OF THE SKIN. — CONGESTION (RED EFFLORESCENCE, OR ERYTHEMA). — CONGESTION, WITH SMALL PIMPLES, OR PAPULES. — INFLAMMATION WITH BLISTERS, OR ECZEMA. — INFLAMMATION WITH PUSTULES. — BOILS, OR FURUNCLES. — NETTLERASH (SURFEIT, OR URTICARIA). — PITYRIASIS, OR SCALY SKIN DISEASE. — PRURITUS, OR NERVOUS IRRITATION OF THE SKIN. — HERPES. — BLEEDING SKIN ERUPTIONS, OR DERMATORRHAGIA PARASITICA. — SUMMER SORES FROM FILARIA IRRITANS. — CRACKED HEELS (SCRATCHES, OR CHAPS ON KNEE AND HOCK). — INFLAMMATION OF THE HEELS WITH SEBACEOUS SECRETION (GREASE, OR CANKER). — ERYSIPELAS. — HORSEPOX, ANTHRAX, AND CUTANEOUS GLANDERS (FARCY). — CALLOSITIES. — HORNY SLOUGHS (SITFASTS), OR SLOUGHING CALLOSITIES. — WARTS. — BLACK PIGMENT TUMORS, OR MELANOSIS. — EPITHELIAL CANCER, OR EPITHELIOMA. — VEGETABLE PARASITES OF THE SKIN. — ANIMAL PARASITES OF THE SKIN. [6] — ACARIASIS, OR MANGE. — TICKS. — GRUBS IN SKIN. — LARVÆ (GRUBS) ON THE SKIN, OR FLYBLOW. — FLIES. — FLEAS. — LICE, OR PEDICULI. — STINGS OF BEES, WASPS, AND HORNETS. — TARANTULA AND SCORPION. — SNAKE BITES. — BURNS AND SCALDS. — WOUNDS OF THE SKIN. — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.WOUNDS AND THEIR TREATMENT. — By Ch. B. Michener , V. S. — [Revised by John R. Mohler, V. M. D., A. M.] — DESCRIPTION OF WOUNDS. — HEMOSTASIA. — SUTURES. — PROCESS OF HEALING. — HEALING UNDER A SCAB. — LACERATED AND CONTUSED WOUNDS. — BRUISES. — PUNCTURED WOUNDS. — PUNCTURED WOUNDS OF JOINTS, OR OPEN JOINTS. — WOUNDS OF THE TENDON SHEATHS. — GUNSHOT WOUNDS. — POISONED WOUNDS. — HARNESS GALLS (SITFASTS). — BURNS AND SCALDS. — GANGRENE. — ULCERATION. — ABSCESSES. — ACUTE ABSCESSES. — COLD ABSCESSES. — FISTULAS.
21. 21.INFECTIOUS DISEASES. — By Rush Shippen Huidekoper , M. D., Vet. — [Revised by A. Eichhorn, D. V. S.] — GENERAL DISCUSSION. — DISINFECTION. — VACCINATION. — INFLUENZA. — CONTAGIOUS PNEUMONIA. — STRANGLES. — PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA. — HORSEPOX, OR EQUINE VARIOLA. — ANTHRAX. — GLANDERS AND FARCY. — CHRONIC FARCY. — CHRONIC GLANDERS. — ACUTE GLANDERS. — SPOROTRICHOSIS (MYCOTIC LYMPHANGITIS). — By JOHN R. MOHLER , V. M. D., Assistant Chief, Bureau of Animal Industry . — RABIES, HYDROPHOBIA, OR MADNESS. — DOURINE. — By JOHN R. MOHLER , V. M. D., Assistant Chief, Bureau of Animal Industry . — INFECTIOUS ABORTION IN MARES. — NAVEL ILL OF COLTS. — INFECTIOUS ANEMIA OR SWAMP FEVER. — By John R. Mohler , V. M. D., Assistant Chief, Bureau of Animal Industry . — SURRA. — By Ch. Wardell Stiles, Ph. D. — OSTEOPOROSIS OR BIGHEAD. — By John R. Mohler , V. M. D., Assistant Chief, Bureau of Animal Industry . — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.HORSESHOEING. — By John W. Adams , A. B., V. M., — Professor of Surgery and Lecturer on Shoeing, Veterinary Department, University of Pennsylvania. — GROSS ANATOMY OF THE FOOT. — THE PHYSIOLOGICAL MOVEMENTS OF THE HOOF. — GROWTH OF THE HOOF. — THE CARE OF UNSHOD HOOFS. — CHARACTERISTICS OF A HEALTHY HOOF. — VARIOUS FORMS OF HOOFS. — FORMS OF FEET VIEWED FROM IN FRONT AND IN PROFILE. — EXAMINATION PRELIMINARY TO SHOEING. — PREPARATION OF THE HOOF FOR THE SHOE. — THE SHOE. — SPECIAL FEATURES AND FITTING THE SHOES. — THE BAR SHOE. — THE RUBBER PAD. — OTHER SPECIAL FORMS.
23. 23.INDEX.

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