Common Diseases of Farm Animals

Common Diseases of Farm
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COMMON DISEASES OF FARM ANIMALS
By R. A. Craig, D.V.M.
[Illustration: Frontispiece--INSANITARY DAIRY STABLE AND
YARDS. DISEASE AND FINANCIAL LOSS ARE TO BE
EXPECTED WHEN FARM ANIMALS ARE KEPT IN FILTHY,
INSANITARY QUARTERS]

PREFACE
In preparing the material for this book, the author has endeavored to
arrange and discuss the subject matter in a way to be of the greatest
service and help to the agricultural student and stockman, and place at
their disposal a text and reference book.
The general discussions at the beginning of the different sections and
chapters, and the discussions of the different diseases are naturally brief.
An effort has been made to conveniently arrange the topics for both
practical and class-room work. The chapters have been grouped under
the necessary heads, with review questions at the end of each chapter,
and the book divided into seven parts.
The chapters on diseases of the locomotory organs, the teeth, surgical
diseases and castration, although not commonly discussed in books of
this class, the writer believes will be of value for reference and
instructional work.
When used as a text-book, it will be well for the instructor to
supplement the text with class-room discussions.
The writer has given special emphasis to the cause and prevention of
disease, and not so much to the medicinal treatment. Stockmen are not

expected to practise the medicinal treatment, but rather the preventive
treatment of disease. For this reason it is not deemed advisable to give a
large number of formulas for the preparation of medicinal mixtures to
be used for the treatment of disease, but such treatment is suggested in
the most necessary cases.
R. A. CRAIG.
PURDUE UNIVERSITY, LaFayette, Ind. August, 1915.

CONTENTS

PART I.--INTRODUCTORY.
I. GENERAL DISCUSSION OF DISEASE II. DIAGNOSIS AND
SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE III. TREATMENT

PART II.--NON-SPECIFIC OR GENERAL
DISEASES.
IV. DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM V. DISEASES OF
THE LIVER VI. DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS VII.
DISEASES OF THE GENERATIVE ORGANS VIII. DISEASES OF
THE RESPIRATORY APPARATUS IX. DISEASES OF THE
CIRCULATORY ORGANS X. DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS
SYSTEM XI. DISEASES OF THE SKIN XII. DISEASES OF THE
EYE XIII. GENERAL DISEASES OF THE LOCOMOTORY
APPARATUS XIV. STRUCTURE OF THE LIMBS OF THE HORSE
XV. UNSOUNDNESSES AND BLEMISHES XVI. DISEASES OF
THE FORE-LIMB XVII. DISEASES OF THE FOOT XVIII.
DISEASES OF THE HIND LIMB

PART III.--THE TEETH.

XIX. DETERMINING THE AGE OF ANIMALS XX.
IRREGULARITIES OF THE TEETH

PART IV.--SURGICAL DISEASES.
XXI. INFLAMMATION AND WOUNDS XXII. FRACTURES AND
HARNESS INJURIES XXIII. COMMON SURGICAL OPERATIONS

PART V.--PARASITIC DISEASES.
XXIV. PARASITIC INSECTS AND MITES XXV. ANIMAL
PARASITES

PART VI.--INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
XXVI. HOG-CHOLERA XXVII. TUBERCULOSIS XXVIII.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES COMMON TO THE DIFFERENT
SPECIES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS XXIX. INFECTIOUS
DISEASES OF THE HORSE XXX. INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF
CATTLE XXXI. INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF POULTRY
REFERENCE BOOKS

ILLUSTRATIONS
FIG. (Frontispiece) Insanitary dairy stable and yards. 1. Side and
posterior view of bull showing conformation favorable to the
development of disease. 2. Insanitary yards. 3. Showing where pulse of
horse is taken. 4. Auscultation of the lungs. 5. Fever thermometer. 6.
Dose syringe. 7. Hypodermic syringes. 8. Photograph of model of

horse's stomach. 9. Photograph of model of stomach of ruminant. 10.
Oesophageal groove. 11. Dilated stomach of horse. 12. Rupture of
stomach of horse. 13. Showing the point where the wall of flank and
rumen are punctured with trocar and