Every Man His Own Cattle Doctor

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Warne, 1870 - 681 Seiten
 

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Seite 515 - When, in warm sultry and rainy weather, sheep that are grazing on low and moist lands feed rapidly, and some of them die suddenly, there is fear that they have contracted the rot.' This suspicion will be further increased if a few weeks afterwards the sheep begin to shrink, and become flaccid about the loins. By pressure about the hips at this time a crackling is perceptible...
Seite 515 - In five or six days after contracting the rot, the thin edge of the small lobe of the liver becomes of a transparent white, or bluish colour, and this spreads...
Seite 515 - By pressure about the hips at this time a crackling is perceptible now or soon afterwards, the countenance looks pale, and upon parting the fleece the skin is found to have changed its vermilion tint for a pale red, and the wool is easily separated from the pelt ; and as the disorder advances the skin becomes dappled with yellow or black spots. To these symptoms succeed increased...
Seite 517 - Abscesses in the liver exhibit another termination of this malady. They are seldom considerable enough to kill immediately; but, in consequence of the absorption of purulent matter from them, the sheep frequently waste away, and die hectical or dropsical. When the collections are small, sheep will recover sufficiently to bear lambs, for three or four seasons, and afterwards become tolerable mutton. 4thly. " The most common termination...
Seite 273 - This complaint (as already intimated) is in general occasioned by the animal feeding for a considerable time upon rich succulent food, so that the stomach becomes overcharged, and they, through their greediness to eat, forget to lie down to ruminate or chew the cud. Thus the paunch or first stomach is rendered incapable of expelling its contents; a concoction and fermentation take place in the stomach, by which a large quantity of confined air is formed in the part that extends nearly to the anus,...
Seite 517 - The most common termination is in schirri, or what the shepherds call knots in the liver; I have seen the whole substance of this important viscus so full of small, roundish lumps, or schirrous bodies, that it was difficult to find any sound part in it. The first attack is unfortunately so very insidious, that the disorder is scarcely observable, before the animal begins to waste and lose flesh. In this advanced state it is said to labour under the rot, or pourriture, from overlooking the commencement...
Seite 516 - ... and in the gall-bladder. At first, the quantity of these creatures is small ; but as the dis-ease advances, they increase, and before death, are often very numerous. In the last part of the complaint, they are sometimes to be found in the stomach, as well as in the intestines and liver.

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