Our Domestic Animals in Health and Disease, Volume 1A. Fullarton, 1861 - Domestic animals |
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abdominal acid action affected alimentary alkaline amongst anus appearance become bile biliary biliary duct blood bone bots canal carbonate carnivora cattle cause cavity coagulated colic Colin colour constitutes diarrhoea digestion dilatation discharge disease distended domestic animals doses duodenum especially evacuation fæces favour fibres fistula fluid frequently gastric juice glands grass gullet hernia horse hove ileum incisors indicates induce inflammation injections irritation latter lesion lips liquid liver lower jaw mastication milk molar mouth mucous membrane mucus muscles muscular coat observed occasionally occurs oesophagus omasum opening organ pain pancreatic duct pancreatic juice parotid passed paunch peculiar peritoneal phosphate poison portion principles pulse purgatives pylorus quantity rectum reticulum rumen ruminants rupture saliva salivary salts secretion seen sheep side small intestine soda solid stomach stomach-staggers substances swallowed symptoms teeth third stomach tion tissue tongue tooth treatment tube tumour urine usually veterinary vomiting wound
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Page 15 - ... to move, than from the window immediately above out pops the head of a butcher, who, drinking his coffee, whip in hand, inflicts a prompt punishment, sounding quite equal to the offence. " As I have stated, the pigs, generally speaking, proceed of their own accord ; but shortly after they have passed, there comes down our street a little bare-headed, bare-footed, stunted dab of a child, about eleven years old...
Page 177 - ... to right. The bolus, as it enters the cardia, turns to the left, passes the aperture, descends into the splenic extremity, and follows the great curvature towards the pyloric end. It then returns, in the course of the smaller curvature, and makes its appearance again at the aperture in its descent into the great curvature, to perform similar revolutions.
Page 15 - ... which seem to have no other object left in this wretched world than to become bacon; while others are thin, tiny, light-hearted, brisk, petulant piglings, with the world and all its loves and sorrows before them. Of their own accord, these creatures proceed down the street, to join the herdsman, who occasionally continues to repeat the sorrowful blast from his horn. " Gregarious, or naturally fond of society...
Page 16 - There exists perhaps in creation no animal which has less justice and more injustice done to him by man than the pig. Gifted with every faculty of supplying himself, and of providing even against the approaching storm, which no creature is better capable of foretelling...
Page 14 - EVERY morning, at half-past five o'clock, I hear, as I am dressing, the sudden blast of an immense long wooden horn, from which always proceed the same four notes. I have got quite accustomed to this wild reveille, and the vibration has scarcely subsided, it is still ringing among the distant hills, when, leisurely proceeding from almost every door in the street, behold a pig! Some, from their jaded, careworn^ dragged appearance, are evidently leaving behind...
Page 15 - ... not to touch them ; the middle-aged ones wistfully eye this meat, yet jog on also, while the piglings, who (so like mankind) have more appetite than judgment, can rarely resist taking a nibble ; yet, no sooner does the dead calf begin again to move, than from the window immediately above out pops the head of a butcher, who, drinking his coffee, whip in hand, inflicts a prompt punishment, sounding quite equal to the offence.
Page 32 - ... was smooth and glistening in those of the first. As the experiment went on, these characters became more marked; and at the beginning of October the animals of lot No. 2, after going without salt for an entire year, presented a rough and tangled hide, with patches here and there where the skin was entirely uncovered. The bullocks of lot No. 1 retained, on the contrary, the ordinary aspect of stall-fed animals. Their vivacity and their frequent attempts at mounting contrasted strongly with the...
Page 15 - ... brisk, petulant piglings, with the world and all its loves and sorrows before them. Of their own accord these creatures proceed down the street to join the herdsman, who occasionally continues to repeat the sorrowful blast from his horn. . Gregarious, or naturally fond of society, with one curl in their tails, and with their noses almost touching the ground, the pigs trot on, grunting to themselves and to their comrades, halting only whenever they come to anything they can manage to swallow....
Page 43 - ... state. They all dissolve, with the aid of heat, in strong, hydrochloric acid, yielding, if air be admitted — not otherwise — a purple solution, which after a time changes to a dark brown. The very acid liquid which is obtained by dissolving mercury in its own weight of nitric acid, gives a very intense red colour to all these substances. This character is so well marked, that we can in this way detect the presence of 1 part of albumen in 100OOO of water.
Page 117 - If a dog, with a gastric fistula, be fed with a mixture of meat and boiled starch, and portions of the fluid contents of the stomach withdrawn afterward through the fistula, the starch is easily recognisable by its reaction with iodine, for ten, fifteen, or twenty minutes afterwards. In forty-five minutes, it is diminished in quantity, and in one hour has usually altogether disappeared; but no sugar is to be detected at any time. Sometimes the starch disappears more rapidly than this; but at no time,...