This volume is part of a new series and covers a number of specific ailments in horses which is intended to be of practical use not only to the practitioner with some equine patients in a general practice and to the student new to equine practice, but also to the specialist. The book offers detailed pictorial information. Amongst the topics covered are vaginal discharge and pneumovagina in the mare, a surgical approach to the cryptorchid horse, grass sickness, an approach to forelimb lameness and its diagnosis and treatment and equine rhabdomyolysis syndrome. The assessment of fitness in horses is also covered.