CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I.— INTRODUCTION. 



Section 1. General Consideration of Disease. — Etiology, 2; Diagnosis, 3; 

 Symptoms and signs, 4 ; History, 5 ; Pulse, 6 ; Respirations, 8 j Asphyxia, 

 9; Cough, 10 ; Internal temperature, 10; Other symptoms and the 

 means of observing them — Prognosis, 14; Death, 15; Morbid anatomy 

 or intimate pathology, 17 ; Degenerations, 18 ; Infiltrations, 20 ; Inflam- 

 mation, 23 ; Suppuration, 26 ; Caries and ulceration, 29 ; Gangrene, 32 ; 

 Necrosis, 33 ; Varieties of inflammation, 34 ; Congestion, 35 ; Haemor- 

 rhage, 36 ; Solutions of continuity, 37 ; Post-mortem examination, 38 ; 

 Varieties of disease, 40: Treatment, 41 ; Operations, 43; Nursing and 

 prevention, 46; Salutary inflammation, 47; Value of rest, 48; Anti- 

 phlogistics, 49 ; Counter-irritants, 50 ; Treatment of congestion* 

 haemorrhage, and dropsy, 53. 



Section 2. The Ox in his relations to the General Consideration of Disease. 

 — Summary of general peculiarities of conformation and internal struc- 

 ture, 54 ; The influence of domestication on the constitution of the ox, 

 57; Other predisposing causes, breeding "in-and-in," 58; Diet, 59; 

 Pregnancy, 59 ; Influence of surrounding air and climate, 60 ; Age, sex, 

 and conformation, 61; Exciting causes, 61; Symptoms, general, 62; 

 Pulse, 62; Temperature, 64; Respirations, 64; Cough, 64; Other sym- 

 ptoms, objective, and subjective, 65 ; Prognosis, 68 ; Treatment, 69 ; 

 Methods of restraint, 70; Chloroform and chloroforming, 71; Nursing 

 and prevention, 72. 



Section 3. Bovine Therapeutics and Materia Medica. — Methods of admin- 

 istration of agents to the ox, 72 ; drenches, 73 ; balls, 74 ; enemas, 74 ; 

 inhalations, 75 ; subcutaneous injection, 76; Doses, 77; Materia medica 

 tables, 78 to 82 ; Agents which are administered internally and those 

 which are applied externally, 83 and 84 ; Application of boiling water 

 and blistering, 85; Fomentations and poultices, 85 j Disinfection, 86; 

 Bloodletting, 86 ; The use of setons, &c., 88. 



CHAPTER II.— DISEASES OF THE BLOOD. 



Section 1. Non-specific Scemal Affections. — Hasty summary of the anatomy 

 and physiology of the blood in general, that of the ox in particular, 89. 

 Nutritive Disorders : Hypertrophy (plethora), 91 ; Atrophy (anaemia), 92 



