CHAPTER XXV. 



DISEASES OF THE OIKOULATOET AND THE EESPIEATOET 



SYSTEM. 



THE POLSE PLACE AND MODE OP BLEEDING FEVEE 



INELAMMATOET FETEE MALIGNANT INELAMMATOEY EETEE 



TYPHUS FEVEE OATAEEH MALIGNANT EPIZOOTIC 



CATAEEH PNEUMONIA, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS 



P'LEUEITES OK PLEUEISY CONSUMPTION. 



The Circulatory System consists of the heart, arteries 

 and veins. It does not enter within the scope of this work 

 to describe their flinctions and action. 



The Pulse. — The pulse in a healthy, full-grown sheep 

 beats according to Gasparin sixty-five, according to Youatt 

 about seventy, and according to Hurtel d' Arboval seventy- 

 five times per minute. To ascertain the number of pulsations, 

 the hand is placed on the left side where the beatings of the 

 heart can be felt. When it is necessary to judge of the 

 character of the pulse, it is felt at about the middle of the 

 inside of the thigh, where the femoral artery passes obliquely 

 across it. 



Place and Mode of Bleeding. — Bleeding from the ears 

 or tail, as is commonly practiced, rarely extracts a quantity 

 of blood sufficient to do any good where bleeding is indicated. 

 To bleed from the eye-vein, the point of a knife is usually 

 inserted near the lower extremity of the pouch below the 

 eye, pressed down, and then a cut made inward toward the 

 middle of the face. Daubenton recommends bleeding fi-om 

 the angular or cheek vein — " in the lower part of the cheek, 

 at the spot where the root of the fourth tooth is placed, 

 which is the thickest part of the cheek, and is marked on the 

 external surface of the bone of the upper jaw by a tubercle, 

 sufficiently prominent to be very sensible to the finger when 



