The Veterinarian, Volume 10

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Page 643 - Tum, si qua sonum procul arma dedere, stare loco nescit, micat auribus et tremit artus, collectumque premens volvit sub naribus ignem. 85 Densa iuba, et dextro iactata recumbit in armo; at duplex agitur per lumbos spina, cavatque tellurem et solido graviter sonat ungula cornu.
Page 513 - Pennant tells us, that on the first of May, in the Highlands of Scotland, the Herdsmen of every Village hold their Beltein, a rural Sacrifice: They cut a square Trench in the Ground, leaving the Turf in the Middle; on that they make a Fire of Wood, on which they dress a large Caudle of Eggs, Butter, Oat-meal and Milk, and bring besides the Ingredients of the Caudle, Plenty of Beer and Whiskey ; for each of the Company must contribute something.
Page 513 - The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground by way of libation ; on that, every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them; each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, 'This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses ; this to thee, preserve thou my...
Page 506 - MANUAL OF PHARMACY, For the Student in Veterinary Medicine; containing the Substances employed at the Royal Veterinary College, with an attempt at their classification, and the Pharmacopoeia of that Institution. By WJT MORTON.
Page 627 - ... the lower animals, even between individuals of the same species, are observable only in a few instances ; for in general they are indifferent to each other's joys or sufferings, and regardless of the treatment experienced by their companions. The attachment, indeed, of the mother to her offspring, as long as its wants and feebleness require her aid and protection, is as powerful in the lower animals, as in the human species ; but its duration, in the former case, is confined, even in the most...
Page 586 - ... preceding evening : he now seized the young student's hand, and lifted him from the ground, and shook him, as a terrier would shake a rat. It was with the greatest difficulty, and not until the grooms had attacked the ferocious animal with their pitchforks, that they could compel him to relinquish his hold ; and, even then, not before he had bitten...
Page 520 - and patted and coaxed him, and he told me as plainly as looks and actions and a somewhat deepened whine could express it, how much he was gratified. I saw him on the third day. He was evidently dying. He could not even crawl to the door of his temporary kennel ; but he pushed forward his paw a little way, and as I shook it, I felt the tetanic muscular action which accompanies the departure of life.
Page 588 - ... different parts of the frame, the eyes, the jaws, particular limbs, will be convulsed. The eye will occasionally wander after some imaginary object, and the horse will snap again and again at that which has no real existence. Then will come the irrepressible desire to bite the attendants or the animals within its reach. To this will succeed the demolition of the rack, the manger, and the whole furniture of the stable, accompanied by the peculiar dread of water, which has already been described.
Page 513 - ... knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them. Each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and, flinging it over his shoulders, says : ' This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses ,•' ' This to thee, preserve thou my sheep
Page 588 - ... described. Towards the close of the disease there is generally paralysis, usually confined to the loins and the hinder extremities, or involving those organs which derive their nervous influence from this portion of the spinal cord ; hence the distressing tenesmus which is occasionally seen.

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