. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. UNNATURAL ATTITUDE INDICATIVE OP ABDOMINAL INJURY. tremendous pressure against the diaphragm, it is liahle to ru[)ture and let the intestines into the chest among the lungs and heart. Either case is fatal, the animal dying from shock to the nervous system, hemorrhage and suffocation. How to know it.— Ihe horse will sit on his haunches ; hut this is not a characteristic symptom of itself, for we see it occasionally in spasmodic colic, and often in enteritis ; the horse will turn up his nose Avith an i
. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. UNNATURAL ATTITUDE INDICATIVE OP ABDOMINAL INJURY. tremendous pressure against the diaphragm, it is liahle to ru[)ture and let the intestines into the chest among the lungs and heart. Either case is fatal, the animal dying from shock to the nervous system, hemorrhage and suffocation. How to know it.— Ihe horse will sit on his haunches ; hut this is not a characteristic symptom of itself, for we see it occasionally in spasmodic colic, and often in enteritis ; the horse will turn up his nose Avith an intensely disgusted expression on his countenance, but this, too, is often seen in colic and enteritis ; he will try to vomit, which is a characteristic .syiujjlom, and the muscles and legs will tremble and shake as if with cold ; the ears and legs get cold ; cold SM'eat breaks out in patches ; the mouth nose strained upward. gets cold, the pulse grows smaller and smaller, till it I)ecomos impercepti- ble, and death claims the patient in the course of half an hour to two hours. Constipation. When the foecal matter in the intestines gets dry and hard, and resists the peristaltic effort of the bowels to pass it on, or when there is no per- istaltic motion to the bowel, and the food lies (piiet in one spot, there is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Periam, Jonathan. [from old catalog]; Baker, A. H. , [from old catalog] joint author. St. Louis, Mo. , N. D. Thompson & co.
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