Volume 1
A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South.
- Adolph Wilhelm Otto
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(4) In the American short-legged sheep, in swine with one hoof and with three, dogs with wolf’s claws, fowls with five or six toes. (5) For instance, in man, the circumcised prepuce; in dogs and horses, the shortened ears and tails. ['To this belong the crooked-tailed cats, of which an account is given by G. Bennett, in London Med. Gazette, Vol. VIII. p. 332. 1831, On a peculiar formation of the tail in the Malay and Manilla cats. T.] § 9. The disposition towards this or that kind of irregularity also varies according to the difference of sex, AGE, CLIMATE, MODE OF LIvING, &c. ‘The FEMALE Bopy, for instance, is more subject to malformations, softening of the bones, spurious forma- tions, especially fatty tumours, cancer, femoral rupture, &c. than the MALE BoDY, which, on the other hand, is more frequently affected with aneurysms, inguinal ruptures, and, on account of the mode of living, with mechanical lesions. Each AGE, CLIMATE, and occupaATIoN has its peculiar dis- eases’ which often alter the organization. Domestic animals are also more frequently subject to pathological states than the wild of the same species; viz. to malformations which are the more common, the more artificially the animals are influenced by man.’ Still the reason why our domestic animals produce monsters in so much greater proportion than others, appears to rest either on the particular operation of man upon certain animals, or on their particular condition.’ Even the artificial hatching of eggs is said frequently to produce deformed chickens.* (1) Almost all foreign animals which have died in menageries, have pre- sented to me the appearance of scrofula, diseases of bone, and a morbid state of the viscera. [4. Wilson, M. D. Some Observations relating to the influence of climate on vegetables and animal bodies. 8vo. London. 1780.—M. Roulin, M.D. Inquiries respecting certain changes observed to have taken place in domestic animals transported from the old to the new world, in Jamieson’s Journal, new series. Vol. VII. p. 326. 8vo. Edinb. T.] (2) Among beasts, in the domestic animals of this class; among birds, in the domestic fowls and pet birds; and among fishes, in the carp and gold fish. [ F. Cuvier, on the domestication of mammiferous animals, in Jamieson’s Journal, new ser. Vol. IV. p. 60, 292. 8vo. Edinb. T.] (3) For example, oxen and sheep, much more commonly than swine, goats, and particularly horses; cats more frequently than dogs, &c. (4) With deficient limbs. v. Shaw, On the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the Spine, &c. 8vo. p. 39. London. 1823.—Gerson and Julius Magaz. d. auslind. Lit. d. ges. Heilk. 1824. Tuli u. Aug. p. 91.— Geoffroy-Saint- Hilaire in Memoirs du Museum d’Hist. nat. Vol. XIII. § 10. Finally, PARTICULAR REGIONS and PpaRTs of the animal body present great variety in the proportionate frequency of their congenital or acquired vices. The left side, usually the weaker, although not from malformation, is however affected by organic disease more frequently than the right;’ the right €](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
