Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . drothorax; it is the stage of effusion inpleurisy. The lungs are floated up, and suflocation results. The presenceof water in the chest is detected by the solid sound—a sound of fullness—-when tapped with the hand, and by theabsence of respiratory murmur; and, fre-quently, the splashing of the water by theaction of the heart
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . drothorax; it is the stage of effusion inpleurisy. The lungs are floated up, and suflocation results. The presenceof water in the chest is detected by the solid sound—a sound of fullness—-when tapped with the hand, and by theabsence of respiratory murmur; and, fre-quently, the splashing of the water by theaction of the heart can also be heard. Clip off the hair from a spot about threeinches ])ack of the elbow, and five orsix inches from the bottom of the the exact location where a punc-ture can be made without striking a rib(the trocar to pass between two ribs); thenplunge a scalpel deep into the flesh, making a hole through the skin andflesh for the trocar; insert the latter instrument and withdraw the trocar,leaving the cannula to act as a spout; hold a pail and catch the water. Ifpieces of lymph clog the cannula, pass in a small probe and push them off. OPENING OF THE SKIN,Preparatory to tapping the chest. 556 CYCIXJPEDIA OP LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR.
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