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NIMROD’S REMARKS
ON THE
Preface
which has been appropriately designated the Nimrodian system. With unassuming candour highly creditable to his understanding, Nimrod disclaims being the original projector of the plan (see page 226) ; but it is no more than due to him to acknowledge, that, had it not been for his zealous exertions in publishing that mode of treatment, it would not have arrived at the perfection which it has now so justly attained.
The original form in which these remarks were written — in letters and occasionally noticing the opinions of contemporary writers — gives them a formality that would have been better avoided ; but it has been thought advisable to continue them in their original style, with such alteration only as the lapse of time since they were written requires. .The Editor has likewise supplied comments and additional remarks where a change of system has become justified by experience, and. made such references as will serve to explain the Author^s views or prevent them from being misunderstood.
To render the work more accessible to the public the present volume has been prepared on a cheaper scale, and is issued at a third the cost of the previous edition.
Green Meat 190
Letter XVII. — Disadvantages of Clipping — Treatment — Comparative expense of summering in the stable and at grass— Firing
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CONTENTS
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Letter XVIII. — Condition of Hunters resumed 227 Apoplexy, Staggers, Vertigo, or Megrims 231
Broken Wind 233
Bangs and Blows 235
Broken Knees 236
Blisters 237
Blindness 238
Blood Vessels 243
Bleeding 244
Curbs 246
Corns 248
Capped Hocks 249
Castration 249
Crib-biting 250
Catarrh or Cold 250
Colic 252
Coat and Clipping 2.54
Cutting or Interfering 258
Distemper 2.58
Diseases, Hereditary 259
Docking 261
Diuretics 262
Fever 265
Farcy 265
Firing 266
Glanders 267
Grease 270
Humours
Inllammation, general and local 272
Foot Lameness
Lampas
Legs, big
Molten Grease
Korving 'k)l
Physic '333
Bingbone 357
Koaring 358
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Letter XVIII. continued. Page
Kowels 365
Teeth 365
Salt 369
Sandcrack 370
Spavins 371
Splents 372
Staked Horses 373
Strangles 374
Stringhalt 375
Sinews 376
Sore Backs 378
Stables 378
Thick Wind 388
Thorns in Legs, and Stubs 391
Thorough-pin 393
Windgalls 393
Worms 393
Yellows 394
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