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Scratches, or chaps on knee and hock, or cracked heels, causes and treatment, 467

Screw-worm fly, or Lucilia hominivorax, note, 481

Scrotal or congenital hernia, cause, description, and treatment, 82

Scrotum, dropsy, or hydrocele, symptoms and treatment, 166

Sebaceous glands, description, 460

Self-abuse, or masturbation, remedy, 168

Serum, use against strangles and anthrax, 531, 544

Sesamoid bones, fracture, cause, symptoms, treatment, etc., 352

Sesamoid sheath, inflammation, or navicular disease, description, symptoms, and treatment, 435

Sesamoids, description, 395

Sexual and urinary organs, examination, 24

Sheath-- calculus, or bilocular cavity, or preputial calculus, description and treatment, 163 of flexor tendons, sprains, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 371 penis, and abdomen, swelling, cause and treatment, 171

Shock, electric, description and treatment, 246

Shoe-- bar, uses, 601 detailed description, 597 hot fitting, 600

Shoeing-- chapter by John W. Adams, 583-605 preliminary examination, 594 preparation of the hoof, 596 rubber pads, 601

Shoes, special peculiarities of chief classes, 598

Shoulder-- joint, displacement, description and treatment, 363 lameness, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 365

Sick horse. See Horse, sick.

Sidebones, description, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 316, 438

Silage, use and danger as horse feed, 56-57

Sinuses, collection in, chronic catarrh, or nasal gleet, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 99

Sitfasts-- horny sloughs, or sloughing callosities, description and treatment, 475 or harness galls, description and treatment, 496

Skin-- and visible mucous membranes, may indicate disease, 11 animal parasites affecting, description of kinds, 478 bleeding eruptions, description and treatment, 469 congestion, red efflorescence, or erythema, description and treatment, 461 disease, scaly, or pityriasis, description and treatment, 467 diseases, chapter by James Law, 458-483 grubs under, description and treatment, 481 hairs, description, 460 inflammation and congestion, description of kinds, 461 nervous irritation, or pruritis, description and treatment, 468 of fetlock and ankle, note, 397 parasites, 477-483 structure, divisions, 459 true, or dermis, description 459 vegetable parasites, description of kinds, symptoms and treatment, 477 wounds, description of different kinds and treatment, 463-470

Sloughs, horny, sitfasts, or sloughing callosities, description and treatment, 475, 496

Snake bites, treatment, 483

Sole of foot, description, 397

Sore throat, or laryngitis, description, symptoms, and treatment, 103

Sores, summer, caused by Filaria irritans, treatment, 469, 470