Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

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CATTLE.
are diminutive and weak, and have little or no power over the body
of the tongue.
1. The spur.
2. The basis, or greater cornu or horn.
3. The inferior lateral cornu.
3 .The middle cornu.
4. The superior lateral eomu.
5. The epiglottis.
6. The arytson&id cartilage.
HYOID BONE, OR OS HTOIDES.
7. The thyroid cartilage.
8. The cricoid cartilage.
9. Rings of the trachea.
10. The interposed ligamentous substance
between the rings.
11. The Rimso glottidis, or entrance into
the windpipe.
In the hyoid bone of the ox, the muscle (the hyo-glossus-longus,
the long muscle belonging to the hyoid bone and the tongue) has
its origin in an attachment to the corner near the spur • but there
are two joints to give greater freedom of motion, "and not only so,
but the bifurcation of the superior lateral cornu, swelled out into a
head or tubercle, has no unyielding cartilaginous attachment to the
temporal bone, and is fitted into a curious socket, formed between
the mastoid process of the temporal bone, and a plate of bone let
down on purpose, and in which it plays loosely, yet securely.
GLOSS-ANTHRAX, MAIN, OB BLACK TONGDE.
There is a disease of the tongue in cattle, which, from its sudden
attack, fearful progress, and frequently fatal, termination, requires particular
notice. * The animal is dull, refuses food, and rumination
ceases. A discharge of saliva appears from the mouth ; it is at
first limpid and inoffensive, but it soon becomes purulent, bloody, and
exceedingly fetid; the head and the neck begin to swell; they become
enormously enlarged ; tb.3 respiratory passages are obstructed
the animal breathes with the greatest difficulty, and is, in some
;