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Title: Elementary lectures on veterinary science, for agricultural students, farmers, and stockkeepers ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Thompson, Henry
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Publisher: London, Baillière, Tindall and Cox
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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they sometimes are, develop into tape*worms; therefore measly 302 VETERINARY LECTURES pork is dangerous when eaten by man. Measles is frequently con-founded with other complaints affecting pigs, especially cases ofindigestion caused by feeding on too much uncooked foods, such asunsound Indian meal, raw potatoes, etc., the symptoms of which areidentical with those of measles. These ailments must not be con-fused with swine fever, as the symptoms are widely different. Whenthese blotches are due to indigestion, there is little or no constitu-tional disturbance or prostration ; the animal will take a little food,seems lively, and runs about as if nothing was amiss. The followingtreatment will answer in both cases—viz., i to 2 teaspoonfuls each ofbicarbonate of soda and flowers of sulphur given mixed in the morn-ing and evening meal. When the bowels are costive, a dose ofcroton oil may be administered, as in the preceding paragraph, withinjections of warm water three or four times a day.
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LECTURE IXTHE RESPIRATORY ORGANS 476. The Nose, which is divided by a bony and cartilaginousseptum (septum nasi) into two chambers—the right and left nasalchambers; the larynx ; the trachea, or windpipe ; and the bronchiand bronchial tubes ; the lungs ; the thorax, or chest ; thepleurae ; and the diaphragm. 477. Nasal Chambers (Plate XXXVI., No. J).—The right andleft nasal chambers of the hovse each contains two bones—one above(the superiov) and one below (the infcviov). They are made up ofvery fine sheets of bone, covered with mucous membrane, and rolledup like a Turks turban, and are called turbinated bones. Thesebones give an extensive surface for the distribution of the nervesconcerned in the sense of smell, as well as for the ramification of thebloodvessels which warm the air as it passes over their surface toenter the windpipe. The membrane covering them clears the airfrom solid particles of dust before it passes to the sinuses of the heador, by way of the windpipe, to the

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