A practical treatise on the breeding cow, and extraction of the calf, before and at the time of calving : in which the question of difficult parturition is considered in all its bearings, with reference to facts and experience; including observations on the diseases of neat cattle generally; containing profitable instructions to the breeding farmer, cowkeeper, and grazier, for attending to their own cattle during illness ... / by Edward Skellett.

  • Skellett, Edward.
Date:
[after 1868]
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Credit: A practical treatise on the breeding cow, and extraction of the calf, before and at the time of calving : in which the question of difficult parturition is considered in all its bearings, with reference to facts and experience; including observations on the diseases of neat cattle generally; containing profitable instructions to the breeding farmer, cowkeeper, and grazier, for attending to their own cattle during illness ... / by Edward Skellett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the whole of its nourishment from the mother, by means of the umbilical cords or blood ves- sels of the navel string alone; that no part of the fluid thus received ever returns, (an obser- vation he has often made,) for the foetus im- mediately dies on the umbilical cords being accidentally broken from any exertion made by it in the womb. Hence the fluid of the am- nios is thus proved to be an excrementitious licpior, discharged from the body of the foetus, and highly unfit for it nourishment; besides, this fluid, so far from decreasing, is gene- rally found in the greatest cpiantity in the latter months, bearing always a proportion to the size of the embryo or foetus, as will appear by the delineation in Plate III. To render the author’s opinion more distinct on this part of the subject, plates are given, shewing the anatomy of the placentae, the am- nios or membrane, and the contiguous parts. After elucidating this part, the symptoms