The farmers' medical dictionary for the diseases of animals / By Cuthbert W. Johnson, Esq. F.R.S.

  • Johnson, Cuthbert W. (Cuthbert William), 1799-1878.
Date:
1845
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Credit: The farmers' medical dictionary for the diseases of animals / By Cuthbert W. Johnson, Esq. F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ALBUMEN. teeth; in their fourth year, six broad teeth; and in their fifth year, eight broad teeth before. After which, none can tell how old a sheep is while their teeth remain, except by their being worn down. About the end of one year, rams, wethers, and all young sheep, lose the two fore-teeth of the lower jaw ; and they are known to want the in- cisive teeth in the upper jaw. At eighteen months, the two teeth joining to the former also fall out; and at three years, being all re- placed, they are even, and pretty white. But as these animals advance in age, the teeth be- come loose, blunt, and afterwards black. The age of the ram, and all horned sheep, may also be known by their horns, which show them- selves in their very first year, and often at the birth, and continue to grow a ring annually to the last period of their lives.—Complete Farmer, Johnson’s Farmers’ Enajclopcedia. ALBUMEN—Is the name given by chemists to the substance, an impure viscid liquid variety of which forms the ivhite of an egg. This white is composed chiefly of albumen mixed with some mucus, soda, and sulphur. When heated to 165 deg., it coagulates into a white solid mass; but when mixed with ten times its weight of water, it no longer is coagu- lated by heat. It is composed of— Carbon . Oxygen Hydrogen Azote . Per Cen*^^, . 52-883 . 23-872 •7.K At\ 7-540 . 15-705