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 . t the cause being surely known. Hence the illustration of someinternal diseases, as shown outwardly, will be very mstructive. Themo3t of them are caused by neglect or abuse. Their treatment will be^ylven in their proper places, as, for instance, those of the feet, in the nextchapter. The condensed description of their origin
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 . t the cause being surely known. Hence the illustration of someinternal diseases, as shown outwardly, will be very mstructive. Themo3t of them are caused by neglect or abuse. Their treatment will be^ylven in their proper places, as, for instance, those of the feet, in the nextchapter. The condensed description of their origin, with references to theillustration on the next page, will enable them to be readily recognized. 1—Discharge from nose, either mucus or pus, or both. This mayoccur not only in glanders, but also in acute and chronic catarrh. 2—Profuse flow of saliva, resulting from a severe wound or swellingof the tongue, the mouth being partly open. 3—Loose, flabby Up, an evidence of partial paralysis of the part. 4—Fistula of the lower jaw, from an ulcerated tooth. This sometimesinvolves a large part of the lower jaw. 6—Fistula, of the upper jav), from same cause. 6—Blind eye. Frequently, accompanynisr a blind eye there is a con-tinuous flow of tears over the cheel:.. DISEASES OF THE HORSE. ZlS 7—Salivarij fistula; a fistulous opening into the duct that conveys thesaliva from the parotid gland to the mouth. 8—Large, long, drooping ear. Some horses have ears so large thatthey droop from their own weight. 9—Small short ear, sonivjlimes called Hare Ear. 10—Poll evil; a running sore on the back of the neck, originating ina boil, or from striking the poll a hard blow, as on a low ceiling, etc. 11—Itch or Mange; itchy skin diseases, causing the animal to rub him-self, oftentimes till the hair and mane are all rubbed off. 12—Ewe neck; the neck appears to be put on wrong side up; insteadof curving upward and forming a handsome crest, it curves downward. 13—Bony tumor, cause
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