CHAPTER IX. 



ORGANS OF RESPIRATION. 



Auscultation continued. Ox; right side; left side. Sheep Goat Pig 

 Dog Bird. Abnormal sounds. Vesicular sound increased or dimin- 

 ished. Supplementary respiration. Variations of bronchial sounds. 

 R&les. Sonorous Sibilant Mucous rale. 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. Ozoana. Injection of the nose. 

 Key's tube. Accumulations of pus in the sinuses. Trephining the 

 sinuses. Impaction of the guttural pouches. A grass cold. Hyoverte- 

 brotomy. Abscess of the turbruated bones. Disease of the facial bones. 

 Malignant sore throat of horse and ox. Tracheotomy. Sore throat 

 or Laryngitis. (Edema glottidis. Angina. Cynanche. Quinsy of pig. 

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

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

 Collapse of the lung. 



2. Ox, (a) Right side. In the superior region the vesi- 

 cular sound is well marked from behind the shoulder to the 

 level of the tenth rib, from which it gradually decreases in 

 intensity, to be lost opposite the eleventh. In the median 

 region a loud and sometimes rather rude respiratory murmur 

 is heard over the fourth and three following ribs, which, 

 however, gradually decreases from the seventh, and is lost 

 over the tenth or eleventh. In the lower region the sound 



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