A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine / by John Lawrence.

  • Lawrence, John, 1753-1839.
Date:
1809
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine / by John Lawrence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    GENERAL TREATISE, & C. & C NEAT CATTLE. ALL those which we style domestic animals must have been originally wild ; some of them are, even at this day, in a state of nature, in various countries: the reason and the art of man, to which nature has submitted all things, constantly subduing the beasts of the field, select such as appear most profitable, and best adapted to the domestic state. At the head of the domestic animals, in point of general utility, stands the genus Bos, by us commonly styled Neat, or the larger horned cattle, and some- times Black Cattle. Their generic character, ac- cording to Pennant—' Cloven footed, with or without horns, the horns bending out laterally; eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw, and none in the upper ; skin along the lower side of the neck pendulous; rounded horns with a large space between their basis.' A concise classification, or division of the animals of which it is proposed to treat, into genus, species, and variety, permanent and accidental, will be sufficient for the purpose of precision. By genus, we intend