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Identifier: diseasesofsheepe00clok (find matches)
Title: The diseases of sheep explained and described
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Clok, Henry. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Sheep-Diseases. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the neck movable or immovable, hardor stiff? It must be further considered if one or more parts sufferat the same time. Even if owners of cattle cannot recognize the diseasefrom the group of symptoms, they will be able to give theveterinary practitioner valuable information concerning thecommencement of the disease, and enable him to fix on aplan of treatment much sooner than without such informa-tion. Another way of recognizing diseases is to dissect animalsafter death, and examine the different organs as to theirtexture, color, consistency, position, changes, etc. Suchpost-mortem examinations mostly enable one to determinethe character of the disease with certainty if this could notbe done during life, and to ascertain its seat and the reasonof its fatal termination. It is necessary, however, in cases oferrors, doubts and wrong conclusions, to consult practicalveterinarians, possessing thorough anatomical knowledge,and not ((uacks who are destitute of it, as is too often tlie case.
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DISEASES OF SHEEP. 127 CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES. Ever since the most remote ages it has been customaryto divide the mass of diseases into classes for greater con-venience, and I will here mention some of the most im-portant for the better understanding of different terms. With regard to duration, diseases are divided into— Short, aciite, which do not last longer than three or fourweeks; Exceedingly short, which do not last longer than threedays, such as various forms of mortification of the sjDleenand colic; Very short, which terminate on the seventh or tenth day;and Slow, chronic, which last longer than forty days, and maycontinue for years, as rot of the lungs. Plagues attack many animals—either of the same species,as sheep, or of different species, as horses and cattle, fromthe same causes. They are divided into— General plagues, epidemics, or epizoics, which originatefrom external, general, unusual and transitive causes, andcommit ravages among the different species in dif

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