Pigeons : their structure, varieties, habits, and management / by W.B. Tegetmeier.

  • Tegetmeier, W. B. (William Bernhard), 1816-1912.
Date:
1868
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    Now ready, in demy 8vo, price 12s., cloth. THE HORSE, IN THE STABLE AND THE FIELD: jis Varieties, MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH AND DISEASE, ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, ETC. ETC. By J. H. WALSH, F.R.C.S. (Stonehenge), EDITOR OF “THE FIELD J ” AUTHOR OF “BRITISH RURAL SPORTS,” ETC. ILLUSTRATED WITH ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ENGRAVINGS BY BARRAUD, H. WEIR, ZWECKER, &c. This very handsome volume is a Complete Practical Work on the Horse, in a form and style suited to the Country Gentleman of the Nineteenth Century, and embraces the most recent views of the most Eminent Authorities, on every subject, treated in a practical manner, and in a style popularly intelligible, by the best Sporting Writer of the present time. CONTENTS. Chapter I.—Early History of the Horse. II. —Natural History and General Character- istics. III. —The Horses of the East. IV. —The Horses of the Western Hemisphere. V.—European Continental Horses. VI.—The English Thoroughbred Horse VII.—Half-breds, Cobs, and Ponies. VIII.—Agricultural and Dray Horses. IX.—On the Locomotive Action in the Various Paces. X.—The Principles of Breeding Applicable to the Horse. XI.—The Brood Mare and her Foal. XII. —The Breaking of the Colt. XIII. — Stables. XIV. —Stable Management. XV.—Stable Management, continued. XVI.—Riding and Driving. XVII.—Classification of the Various Organs and Physiology of the Skeleton. XVIII.—Descriptive Anatomy of the Several Bones. XIX.—Of the Joints, and the Tissues entering into their Composition. Chap. XX.—The Muscular System. XXL—The Thoracic Organs and their Appendages. XXII.—The Abdominal and Pelvic Viscera. XXIII.—The Nervous System. XXIV.—Special Organs. XXV.—The Diseases and Injuries of Bone. XXVI.—Injury and Diseases of the Joints, Muscles, and Tendons. XXVII.—Diseases of the Thoracic Organs and their Appendages. XXVIII.—Diseases of the Abdominal Viscera and their Appendages. XXIX.—Diseases of the Nervous System. XXX.—Diseases and Injuries of Certain Special Organs. XXXI.—Constitutional Diseases. XXXII.—Operations. XXXIII.—The Action of Medicines, and the Forms in WHICH THEY ARE PRESCRIBED. XXXIV.—List of Veterinary Drugs, with their Action and Doses. Appendix.—On the Law of Soundness, and on the Pur- chase and Sale of Horses. LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, THE BROADWAY, LTJDGATE. Woodfall and Kinder, Printers, Milford Lane, Strand, London, W.C.