CONTENTS. 

 FIRST LECTURE. • 



INTRODUCTION. 



PAGE. 



The Vital Stimulus of Organic Life — Influence of Electricity on Inorganic and 

 Organic Material —Action of the X Rays — Definition of Life — Death, the 

 Cessation of the Powers of Absorption, Assimilation, Secretion, Excretion, 

 and Reproduction — Composition of the Tissues of the Body — Composition 

 of Cells — Character of Simple Cell — What the Microscope Reveals — The 

 Province of Histology, Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology — Arrangements 

 of Lectures — Order of Subjects — What is a State of Health — The Process 

 of Nutrition — Conditions for Healthy Nutrition — How Disorder and Disease 

 arise — Definition of Pathology, Etiology, Symptomatology, Prognosis, 

 Therapeutics, Hygiene, Epizootic, Enzootic, Specific, Sporadic — Inflamma- 

 tion, Reparative and Destructive — The Action of Inflammation, Irritation, 

 Contraction, Dilatation, and Congestion — The Local Signs of Inflammation, 

 Heat, Pain, Redness, Swelling — Various kinds of Inflammation, Acute, 

 Sub-Acute, and Chronic — Character of Attacks, Sthenic or Asthenic — 

 Terminations, Results or Effects of Inflammation — Resolution — Exudation 

 and Adhesion — Effusion — Suppuration, Acute and Chronic, Dift'used and 

 Superficial — Kinds of Pus, Laudable, Putrid, Sanious, Scrofulous and 

 Specific — Ulceration and Kinds of Ulcers. Healthy, Inflamed, Indolent, 

 Weak, Sloughing, and Specific —Mortification — Moist and Dry Gangrene- 

 Senile Gangrene — Sloughs and Sloughing — Treatment for Inflammation — 

 Septicaemia or Blood Poisoning — The Causes of Inflammation, Vital, 

 Chemical, and Mechanical — Local and Constitutional Treatment — Local 

 Treatment for Founder, Weed, and A bscesses— Sympathetic and Symptomatic 

 Fever -Treatment for Sympathetic Fever — Difference in Town and 

 Country Practice — Simple Fever and its Treatment — Abuse and Judicioiis 

 Use of Bleeding— Fever arising from Specific or Germic Causes — Treatment 

 for Septic Fever — Use of Clinical Thermometer — Normal Temperature of 

 Animals — The Use of Wonderful Patent Nostrums — The Assistance of the 

 Professional Qualified Veterinary Practitioner — First Aid to Animals- 

 Nature's Recuperative Power — Vis Mcdicatrix Natitm—The Use of Common 

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