A complete system of farriery, and veterinary medicine : containing a compendium of the veterinary art ... the anatomy and physiology of the foot, and the principles and practice of shoeing : with observations on stable management ... / by James White ... ; newly arranged by the publishers, in which are introduced ... treatises upon the glanders, farcy, staggers ... by the same author.

  • White, James, -1825.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A complete system of farriery, and veterinary medicine : containing a compendium of the veterinary art ... the anatomy and physiology of the foot, and the principles and practice of shoeing : with observations on stable management ... / by James White ... ; newly arranged by the publishers, in which are introduced ... treatises upon the glanders, farcy, staggers ... by the same author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be found, if carefully attended to at the commence- ment, to begin with some degree of increased action of the system ; and though bleeding may be improper a mild purgative will generally prove very beneficial. In the former editions of this work, scarcely any notice was taken of these, diseases : we shall in the present, therefore, describe particularly, under the head Fever, their symptoms, causes, and most effec- tual mode of treatment. Structure and functions of the- Internal Organs. The hollow part of the body is divided into tw*o cavities by a strong muscular partition termed the di- aphragm or midriff; the anterior part is named the thorax or chest; and the posterior the abdomen or bel- ly. The thorax contains the lungs and heart; the abdomen the stomach, intestines, liver, spleen or milt, -pancreas or sweetbread, kidneys, and bladder. Of the Lungs. In describing the lungs, it is necessary to begin With the trachea ov windpipe, which is a cylindrical cartilaginous tube, extending from the throat to the chest. The trachea is not made up of one entire car- tilage, but of several cartilaginous, rings, which are united by strong membranes ; and such is the elasti- city of these cartilages, that the tube is enabled to preserve its cylindrical form, even when it receives .considerable pressure, and thereby affords free ingress and egress to the air in respiration. The membranes also are elastic, so that the windpipe may be either elongated, shortened, or bent, in some degree. The upper part of the trachea is composed of stronger car-