The Peoples Horse Cattle Sheep And Swine Doctor Containing Concise Descriptions Of The Diseases Of The Respective Animals With The Exact Doses Of Medicine For Each Edited By William H Clarke

Author : William H. Clarke
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330341377
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The People's Horse, Cattle, Sheep, and Swine Doctor written by William H. Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The People's Horse, Cattle, Sheep, and Swine Doctor: Containing in Four Parts, Clear and Concise Descriptions of the Diseases of the Respective Animals, With the Exact Doses of Medicine for Each The title page of this work explains its nature, scope, and character so perfectly that little else need be said on the subject. It is compiled from the highest authorities and the latest editions of their respective works. For example, the parts entitled "Medicines and their Doses" and "Medicines and their Classes" are based, or chiefly based, on the seventh edition of Dun's "Veterinary Medicines." Prof. Percivall's works, from which numerous extracts have been made, are getting old, it is true; but as his words are often quoted by all modern veterinary authors, no apology is needed for the extracts from that source in this work. The illustrations, numbering, in the aggregate, 232, are the best of their kind, and are taken from here and there. Many are from Mayhew and Armitage. One of the drawbacks of most veterinary books is the confusion of nomenclature. This is an almost necessary fault of this volume, for if several of the different names by which some diseases are known were not given, how could the unprofessional reader recognize them? For example, on page 225 is the following: "Carbuncular fever (anthrax), also called Texas fever, splenic fever, trembles, charbon, blain, &c." Page 238: "Hoven (tympanites), also known as hove, hoove, blown, dew-blown, fog-sickness, &c." Page 322: "Swine plague or swine anthrax, also known as hog cholera, red soldier, blue sickness, measles, erysipelas, intestinal fever, typhoid fever, &c. The using of the word 'thrush' to indicate both disease of the foot and the mouth is certainly inexcusable confusion. (See pages 196, 238, 296.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.