Vlll CONTENTS. 



lobules. Air-cells. Pleura. Blood-vessels. Nerves and lymphatics of lungs. 

 Mechanism of respiration. Inspiration. Expiration. Number of respirations per 

 minute. Respiration in birds. The blood: its physical properties and microscopi- 

 cal characters. Blood corpuscles. Liquor sanguinis. Coagulation of blood. 

 Gelatinization. Separation of serum. Circumstances which favour or oppose the 

 clotting process. Exposure to air Heat Cold. Fainting. Action of alkalies. 

 Contact with living tissues. Dr Richardson's and Professor Lister's researches. 

 Buffy coat. Causes of coagulation. Chemical characters of the blood. Chemical 

 changes in respiration. Physical signs of respiration. Auscultation. Percussion. 

 Palpation. Succussion. Mensuration. Auscultation in the horse Ox Sheep 

 Pig Dog Cat Birds. Auscultation of nasal chambers Larynx Windpipe 

 Chest, 44i> 



CHAPTER IX. 



ORGANS OP RESPIRATION. 



Auscultation continued. Ox : right side; left side. Sheep Goat Pig Dog Bird. 

 Abnormal sounds. Vesicular sound increased or diminished. Supplementary 

 respiration. Variations of bronchial sounds. Rales. Sonorous Sibilant Mucous 

 r31e. Metallic tinkling. Friction sound. Gurgling or splashing sound, Cough. 

 Bronchial, cavernous, and amphoric sounds. Percussion Horse Ox, and other 

 animals. Palpation. Mensuration. Succussion. Diseases of the respiratory 

 organs. Epistaxis. Nasal Catarrh. Coryza, simple and malignant. Chronic 

 nasal discharge. Nasal gleet. Ozoena. Injection of the nose. Rey's tube. 

 Accumulations of pus in the sinuses. Trephining the sinuses. Impaction of the 

 guttural pouches. A grass cold. Hyovertebrotomy. Abscess of the turbinated 

 bones. Disease of the facial bones. Malignant sore throat of horse and ox. 

 Tracheotomy. So re throat or laryngitis. CEdemaglottidis. Angina. Cynanche. 

 Quinsy of pig. Tracheitis. Croup. Fracture of the trachea. Congestion of lungs. 

 Pulmonary apoplexy. How to apply mustard to the chest. Bronchitis. Col- 

 lapse of the lung, 613 



CHAPTER X. 



DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. 



Pneumonia, or inflammation of the substance of the lungs. Abscess of the lungs. 

 Pleurisy. Mr John Field on advanced pleurisy Post-mortem appearances Quan- 

 tity of fluid effused. Saint-Cyr on pleuritic lesions. Treatment. Hydrothorax, or 

 water in the chest. Tapping. Mr Percival on treatment of hydrothorax. Sporadic 

 pleuro-pneumonia : in the horse, ox, and sheep. Contagious pleuro-pneumonia of 

 cattle. Causes. The history of the steppe disease and pleuro-pneumonia inter- 

 woven. The epizootic pleuro-pneumonia of cattle enzootic in Central Europe. 

 Spreads elsewhere exclusively by contagion. Experiments of the French Commis- 

 sion. Conditions which increase or mitigate the severity of the disease. Symp- 

 toms. Post-mortem appearances. Treatment. Prevention amongst feeding stock. 

 Amongst dairy stock. The absurdities of inoculation. Curative treatment of the 

 disease. Possibility of banishing the disease from British soil. Chronic diseases 

 of the respiratory organs. A chronic cough. Roaring. Broken wind. Thick 

 wind. Parasitic diseases. -The nose bot. (Estrus ovis. Attacks of strongyli in 

 calves, sheep, and pigs, 577 



