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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    by the cow when she is inclined to coition, a point to be particularly attended to by every breeder, for on this the success of con- ception depends; the period when the animal is in season, or desirous of this indulgence, l)eing very short, may be often missed, if the symptoms are not well known. The next subject is that of conception, the manner of which is fully explained; the im- portant subject of the circulation of the blood, l)etween the mother and the embryo or foetus, is next taken up, and the mode of procuring its nourishment ascertained. In doing this, the author has occasion to state the origin of the membrane or amnios, and also of the wa- ter contained within it, in which the em])ryo or foetus floats. In describing these parts, he has taken the liberty of differing from other writers, and to maintain an opinion founded on his own experience and observation; this opinion is, that the embryo or foetus receives