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INDEX 



Pleuritic ridge, 349 

 Pleuritis, 348 

 Pneumogastric nerve, 166 

 Pneumonia, 349 

 Pododerm, 180 

 Points, 262 

 Poisoning, 385 



arsenic, 388 



blood, 249 



cantharides, 385 



common salt, 388 



concentrated lye, 388 



ergot, 387 



forage, 338 



horse-tail, 386 



larkspur, 388 



lead, 388 



loco-weed, 386 



mercury, 389 



ptomain, 338, 386 



snake venom, 386 



strychnin, 387 

 Poisons, 385 



animal, 385 



classes of, 385 



determining cause of disease, 192 



mineral, 385, 388 



vegetable, 385, 386 

 Poll-evil, 263 

 Polyuria, 311 

 Pons, 165 



functions of, 171 

 Posterior aorta, 130 



vena cava, 130 

 Postmortem examination in disease, 



209 

 Potassium iodid, 383 



nitrate, 383 



permanganate, 383 

 Poultice, flaxseed, 248 

 Powdered drugs, 376 

 Precipitation test, 210 

 Precipitins, internal defense against 



disease, 197 

 Pregnancy, 152 



duration of, 155 



effect of, 157 



in mare, diagnosis of, 156 

 hygiene of, 159 



objective signs o f , 156 



phenomena produced by, 155 



subjective signs of, 157 

 Prehension, 85 

 Premature birth, 317 



Premaxillse, 37 

 Prepuce, 147 

 Pressure, blood, 133 

 arterial, 133 

 venous, 133 

 Preventable diseases, 352 

 Prevention of disease, 211. See also 



Disease, prevention of. 

 Process of secretion, 89 

 Prolapse of uterus, 315 

 Proliferative inflammation, 232 

 Propagation of disease, 193 

 Prophylaxis in disease, 211 

 Prosecretin, 98 

 Prostate, 147 

 Proteins, 21 



absorption of, 104 



in muscle, 61 ' 



oxidation of, 121 

 Protoplasm, 23, 24, 25 



physical forces in, 24 

 Proud flesh, 244 

 Psoroptes, 332 



communis, 333 

 Pterygoid bones, 37 

 Ptomain poisoning, 338, 386 

 Ptyalin, 93 

 Puberty, 150 

 Pubis, 47 

 Pulmonary artery, 129 



circulation, 131 



veins, 130 

 Pulse, examination of, in disease, 

 205, 206 



normal, of adult farm animals, 

 206 



respirations and, normal ratio of, 

 207 

 Punctured wounds, 240 

 Pupil, 175 

 Purgative, 377 

 Pus, 248 

 Putrefaction, 96 

 Pyemia, 231, 249 

 Pyloric glands, 81 



Quantity of urine, abnormal, 311 



Quarantine, in prevention of dis- 

 ease, 214 



Quarter crack, 280 



Quarters, stable, for sick animals 

 221 



Quick, 180 



Quittor, 277 



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