The American Veterinary Journal, Volume 2

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1857
 

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Pagina 102 - our business to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the utmost vigor and maturity every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are
Pagina 23 - for ten days together without dressing victuals; during which time they subsist on the blood drawn from their horses, each man opening a vein and drinking from his own animal. They make provision also of milk, thickened and dried to the state of a hard paste or curd.—Marco Polo's Narrative.
Pagina 23 - MONGOLIAN CUSTOM. When the Mongolian army proceeds on service, a body of men is sent two days' march in advance, and parties are stationed upon each flank in the rear, in order to prevent its being attacked by surprise. When the service is distant, they carry but little with them, and that chiefly
Pagina 23 - is requisite for their encampment, and vessels for cooking. They subsist, for the most part, on milk. Each man has, on an average, eighteen horses and mares, and when that on which they ride is fatigued, they change it for another. Should circumstances render it necessary, in the execution of a duty that requires dispatch, they can
Pagina 192 - Tartary has a speed even greater than that; an eagle can fly eighteen leagues in an hour; and a canary falcon can even reach 250 leagues in ihe short space of sixteen hours. A •violent wind travels sixty miles in an hour; sound, 1,142 English feet in a second.
Pagina 80 - Feed the ewe principally upon gruel and milk or linseed porridge. Parturition having taken place, the uterus should be injected with a solution of chloride of lime, in the proportion of a drachm to a pint of warm water, and repeated twice a day whilst any foetid discharge from the vagina
Pagina 23 - Success prompts to exertion, and habit facilitates success. Habit also gives promptness, and the soul of dispatch is decision. One may write a book or paint a picture, while another is deliberating about a

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