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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,

BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY.

A. D. MELVIN, Chief of Bureau.


SPECIAL REPORT

ON

DISEASES OF THE HORSE.

BY

Drs. PEARSON, MICHENER, LAW, HARBAUGH, TRUMBOWER, LIAUTARD, HOLCOMBE,HUIDEKOPER, MOHLER, EICHHORN, HALL, AND ADAMS.


REVISED EDITION, 1916.

WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
1916.


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Transcriber's note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotesmoved to the end of the sections. The images for the plates are thumbnailsthat take you to a larger version of the image.

Department of Agriculture,

Washington, March 30, 1916.

This edition of the Special Report on Diseases of the Horse has beenprepared in compliance with House Concurrent Resolution No. 13, passedFebruary 3, 1916, as follows:

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senateconcurring), That there be printed and bound in cloth onehundred thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseasesof the Horse, the same to be first revised and brought to date,under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture; seventythousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives andthirty thousand for use of the Senate.

Since the original edition issued by the Department in 1890 severaleditions have been printed by order of Congress. The work was reprintedin 1896, and revised and reprinted in 1903, 1908, and 1911. Inaccordance with the foregoing resolution it again has been revised so asto embody the latest practical development of knowledge of the subject.

D. F. Houston,
Secretary.


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CONTENTS.

Page.
The examination of a sick horse. By Leonard Pearson7
Fundamental principles of disease. By Rush Shippen Huidekoper27
Methods of administering medicines. By Ch. B. Michener44
Diseases of the digestive organs. By Ch. B. Michener49
Diseases of the respiratory organs. By W. H. Harbaugh95
Diseases of the urinary organs. By James Law134
Diseases of the generative organs. By James Law164
Diseases of the nervous system. By M. R. Trumbower...

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