Identifier: livestockcyclope00bake (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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hind limbs become weak and unsteady. Insome instances the glands under the jaw swell, and a discharge flows fromthe nose, as in glanders. In other cases the itching of the skin leads tognawing and extensive sores. Weakness, emaciation, and stupidity in-crease until death, in fatal cases, yet the sexual desire does not seem to fail.A stallion without sense to eat, except when food was put in his mouth,would still neigh and seek to follow mares. In mild cases an apparentrecovery may ensue, and through such animals the disease is propagatedto new localities to be roused into activity and extension under the stimulusof service. The diseased nerve centers are the seat of cryptogamic growths.Treatment of the malady has proved eminently unsatisfactory. It be-longs to the pure contagious diseases, and should be stamped out by theremorseless slaughter or castration of every horse or mare that has hadsexual congress with a diseased animal. 482 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR.
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CHAPTER XVIII. PARTURITION. I. NATURAL PARTURITION. II. DIFFERENT PRESENTATIONS. III. ATTENTION TO THE MOTHER. IV. ATTENTION TO THE FOAL. V. DIFFICULT PARTURITION IN THE MARE AND COW COMPARED. VI. DIFFICULTIES DUE TO THE MOTHER. VII. DIF-FICULTIES DUE TO THE FOAL. VIII. OBSTETRIC INSTRUMENTS. IX. WHEN THE FOAL IS BORN DEAD, OR THE AFTER-BIRTH RETAINED. X. THE UMBILICAL CORD OF FOAL. XI. VARIOUS PRESENTATIONS ILLUSTRATED. XII. VARIOUS POSITIONS OF THE FO.\L. XIII. DORSO-LUMBAR PRESENTATION. XIV. STERiNO-ABDOMINAL PRE-SENTATION. XV. MECHANISM OF PARTURITION. XVI. MECHANISM OF PARTURI-TION IN THE ANTERIOR VERTEBRO-SACRAL POSITION. XVII. MECHANISM OF PAR-TURITION IN THE ANTERIOR VERTEBRO-PUBIC POSITION. XVIII. MECHANISM OF PARTURITION IN THE ANTERIOR VERTEBRO-ILIAL POSITIONS. XIX. MECHANISM OF PARTURITION IN THE POSTERIOR LUMBO-SACRAL POSITION. XX. NECESSARY AID IN NORMAL PARTURITION. XXI. SPAYING, OR CASTRATION OF THE MARE. I. Natural Parturition. This branch of onr subject needs but lit

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