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may be said to be bronchial over the fourth and fifth ribs, 

 evidently on account of the considerable tube passing to the 

 anterior lobe of the right lung. From the sixth to the ninth 

 rib it is vesicular, and its force decreases from before back- 

 wards. 



(6) Left side. The superior region simply repeats that of 

 the right side. In the median region, the only difference *is, 

 that the sound is more feeble over the fourth, fifth, and sixth 



ViS. 136. View of left lung of ox in situ. 



ribs. In the inferior region, a feeble respiratory murmur is 

 heard over the fourth rib; this increases over the fifth and 

 sixth, and then decreases as far as the eighth or ninth. 



In cattle, as in horses, a rumbling intestinal sound will 

 frequently be noticed. It is usually confined to the posterior 

 part of the right side, and to the superior and median 

 regions. It seems to originate in the convolutions of intes- 



