Authors: Tony Pavford, Marcy Pavord
ISBN-13: 9780715318836, ISBN-10: 0715318837
Format: Paperback
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: New Edition
Widely acknowledged as the best guide to veterinary care available to the horse owner today, this comprehensive manual is now fully revised to include up-to-the-minute advice on the latest defence against new threats to the horse's health.
Every horse owner has experienced that feeling of helplessness when something is wrong with his or her animal. Correct diagnosis of any equine disease is a complicated business, but this excellent reference book provides a comprehensive and instant guide to equine health, and shows clearly when expert help is required. It offers two cross-referenced routes for the reader to find the necessary information: via an index of known equine diseases throughout the world, covering the symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatment of each, or via an alphabetical encyclopaedia of specific diseases. Specially taken colour and black-and-white photographs aid in the identification of specific conditions.
Pt. I | Keeping your horse healthy | 7 |
Knowing your horse | 8 | |
Preventative treatment | 36 | |
You and your vet | 50 | |
First aid treatment | 62 | |
Pt. II | Anatomical index of diseases | 73 |
Infections affecting the general system | 74 | |
Diseases affecting the head | 81 | |
Diseases affecting the chest | 86 | |
Diseases affecting the abdomen | 90 | |
Problems of foaling | 100 | |
Diseases affecting movement | 102 | |
Diseases affecting the skin | 112 | |
Diseases affecting the metabolism | 119 | |
Diseases affecting the foal | 120 | |
Diseases of old age | 125 | |
Glossary of terms used in parts II & III | 127 | |
Pt. III | A-Z of diseases | 129 |
App. A | Horserace Betting Levy Board 2004 : codes of practice | 206 |
App. B | The Horse Passports (England) Regulations 2003 | 228 |
App. C | Natural hoof care | 238 |