The Vet, Book 



Females are liable to complaints from which the 

 male is exempt, to say nothing of the multifarious 

 ailments arising through foaling, calving, lambing, 

 whelping, etc. 



The reparative power of the aged is necessarily 

 much less than that of the young, and in no cases 

 is this more typically exemplified than in fractures 

 and wounds. 



What has been said with reference to the 

 female, is equally applicable, though conversely, to 

 the male, the generative apparatus of which is very 

 liable to be the seat of various morbid processes. 



Surroundings 



The conditions under which an animal is living, 

 not only have an influence in determining the 

 onset of disease but exert a power in the ultimate 

 issue ; thus, for instance, if an animal is badly 

 housed or badly fed, or mismanaged in some other 

 way, and disease makes its appearance, the chances 

 are that a severe form of the malady will be 

 assumed, or unfavourable complications arise. 



The environment of an animal very often leads to 

 the immediate production of disease or, it may be, 

 death. This is exemplified in the case of animals 

 pastured, or allowed to graze where poisonous 

 herbage exists ; and the plants which commonly 

 play a part are the Yew ; Fox Glove ; the Deadly 

 Nightshade; the Rhododendron; the Bitter-sweet ; 

 the Henbane; the Lilac; the Laburnum; the 



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