The Farmer's Veterinarian: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Farm Stock

by Charles William Burkett

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Table of Contents

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Introduction
Facing Disease on the Farm	[1]
Chapter I.
How the Animal Body is Formed	[9]
Chapter II.
Some Physiology You Ought to Know	[21]
Chapter III.
The Teeth as an Indication of Age	[34]
Chapter IV.
Examining Animals for Soundness and Health	[39]
Chapter V.
Wounds and Their Treatment	[54]
Chapter VI.
Making a Post-Mortem Examination	[62]
Chapter VII.
Common Medicines and Their Actions	[69]
Chapter VIII.
Meaning of Disease	[82]
Chapter IX.
Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease	[92]
Chapter X.
Diseases of Farm Animals	[101]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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[1].	Health	Frontispiece
[2].	Common Sheep Scab	3
[3].	Hog House and Feeding Floor	5
[4].	Poulticing the Throat	8
[5].	How a Cell Divides	10
[6].	Bones of Skeleton of a Horse	16
[7].	One of the Parasites of the Hog	18
[8].	Circulation and Digestion	22
[9].	Diseased Kidney	25
[10].	Stomach of Ruminant	27
[11].	Circulation of Blood in Body	30
[12].	Lumpy Jaw (jaw bone)	36
[13].	Bad Attitude Due to Conformation	41
[14].	Ewe Neck	46
[15].	Anatomy of the Foot	49
[16].	Fractures	54
[17].	Bandaging a Leg	57
[18].	Rickets in Pigs	63
[19].	Round Worms in Hog Intestines	66
[20].	Tetanus Bacilli	71
[21].	Ready for the Drench	81
[22].	Bacteria As Seen Under the Microscope	85
[23].	Result of Bone Spavin	90
[24].	Feeling the Pulse	94
[25].	How Heat Affects Growth	96
[26].	Diseases of the Horse	102
[27].	Lumpy Jaw (external view)	105
[28].	Where to Tap in Bloating	118
[29].	Bog Spavin	122
[30].	Horse Bots in Stomach	124
[31].	Colic Pains	138
[32].	Retention of the Urine	141
[33].	Curb	145
[34].	Fistulous Withers	156
[35].	Foot Rot in Sheep	160
[36].	Founder	163
[37].	Bad Case of Glanders	170
[38].	Ventral Hernia	180
[39].	An Attack of Cholera	182
[40].	The Result of Hog Cholera	186
[41].	Kidney Worms in the Hog	205
[42].	Liver Fluke	207
[43].	Lockjaw	209
[44].	Lymphangitis	215
[45].	Natural Presentation of the Foal	225
[46].	Abnormal Presentation of the Foal	227
[47].	Quittor	235
[48].	A Cattle Bath Tub	241
[49].	Side Bones	244
[50].	Splint	248
[51].	Twisted Stomach Worms	252
[52].	Tuberculosis Germs	264
	Health and Disease	[Plate 1]
	Making Post Mortem Examinations	[Plate 2]
	A Victim of Tuberculosis	[Plate 3]
	Exterior Points of the Horse; Castration	[Plate 4]
	Texas Fever	[Plate 5]
	A Typical Case of Foot and Mouth Disease	[Plate 6]

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INTRODUCTION
Facing Disease on the Farm