The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies; . TTENING. Hygiene of the Horse, .... 468 Condition Powders, . . 470 Disinfection, ..... 473 Hygienic Rules for Fattening Animals, 475 Cattle Powders and Condimental Food, 476 Diets for Fattening, .... 477 CHAPTER II. POISONS AND THE TREATMENT OF POISONING. General Rules for the Treatment of Poisoning, 479 Vegetable Poisons; Aloes; Castor and Croton Seeds; Diseasedand Spoiled Foods; Eupatorium; Hellebore ; Laurel; Poi-sonous Mushrooms; Opium; Ranunculus; Savin ; Wort; Tobacco; Turpentine; Stramonium, . 480 16 Contents. PAGE
The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies; . TTENING. Hygiene of the Horse, .... 468 Condition Powders, . . 470 Disinfection, ..... 473 Hygienic Rules for Fattening Animals, 475 Cattle Powders and Condimental Food, 476 Diets for Fattening, .... 477 CHAPTER II. POISONS AND THE TREATMENT OF POISONING. General Rules for the Treatment of Poisoning, 479 Vegetable Poisons; Aloes; Castor and Croton Seeds; Diseasedand Spoiled Foods; Eupatorium; Hellebore ; Laurel; Poi-sonous Mushrooms; Opium; Ranunculus; Savin ; Wort; Tobacco; Turpentine; Stramonium, . 480 16 Contents. PAGE Mineral and Chemical Poisons; Acids ; Alkalies; Alcohol;Arsenic ; Brine ; Corrosive Sublimate ; Creasote; Lead ;Mercury; Strychnine ; Tartar Emetic, . . 483 CHAPTER III. THE MORE IMPORTANT DRUGS AND MEDICINES USED FOR ANIMALS, Alphabetical List of the Most Useful Drugs, with their Doses, Forms of Administration and Formulas, . . 488 Classified List of Drugs, according to their Action on the System, with Explanations, . . . 505 Index, ........ 511. 00 PART I. General Principles of Veterinary Medicine. CHAPTER I. REMAEKS ON THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OPDOMESTIC ANIMALS. The Brain and Nervous System—The Organs of Breathing—The Organs of Digestion—The Heart, Blood-vessels andAbsorbents—The Kidneys and Sex Organs—The Repro-ductive Acts. When one undertakes to repair a machine he should knowsomething about its construction; and in like manner anacquaintance with anatomy and physiology is justly deemednecessary to the proper treatment of diseases. It IS not, however, our purpose to enter into those abstrusesciences to any great extent; but it will be profitable to con-sider in broad outlines, and in language free from technicali-ties, the structure and functions of the four species of ani-mals, the horse, cattle, the sheep and the hog, whosediseases it is our main purpose to describe in the pages ofthis book. In doing so we shall proceed in the same orderin whicli the disea
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