The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies; . think that it has. Causes.—These are want of cleanliness, absence of freshair and clean water, foul feeding, and general neglect of theanimals health; a second cause is contagion from thosealready suffering. Symptoms.—According to a learned French veterinarian,M. Dupray D Emportes, one of the very earliest symptomsof this complaint is the formation of a small tumor orblister, like a stye, on the edge of the eye. Other such blistersappear soon, around the mouth, in the throat, under the jaws,and finally over the whole body. Great p


The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies; . think that it has. Causes.—These are want of cleanliness, absence of freshair and clean water, foul feeding, and general neglect of theanimals health; a second cause is contagion from thosealready suffering. Symptoms.—According to a learned French veterinarian,M. Dupray D Emportes, one of the very earliest symptomsof this complaint is the formation of a small tumor orblister, like a stye, on the edge of the eye. Other such blistersappear soon, around the mouth, in the throat, under the jaws,and finally over the whole body. Great prostration ac-companies the disease; the head is held down; the wholeframe inclines toward the ground; the animal moves un-willingly, and with pain ; food is refused, and loss of fleshis rapid. Death follows, from emaciation and exhaustion. Any reader at all versed in medicine will see that theseare not the symptoms of leprosy, but rather of some form ofmalignant pemphigus. But its exact determination we leaveto those who have opportunities to observe


Size: 2050px × 1219px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1850, booksubjectveterinarymedicine