References to the Plates
Fig. 2. and 3. p. The first stomach or paunch; b. the second stomach, bonnet, king’s-hood, or honey-comb; o. the third stomach, or omasum; a. the fourth stomach, or abomasum; g. the gullet; py. the pylorus.
Fig. 4. Section of a sheep’s toe; g. g. the gland secreting the hoof; c. c. the crust; s. the sole.
Fig. 5. View of the interdigital gland; g. the gland; d. the duct leading from it.
Fig. 6. The fluke-worm; a. the mouth; b. the reproductive apparatus; c. c. vessels for the distribution of the blood.
The figures in this plate are borrowed from the beautiful cuts in the work on Sheep, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Fig. 2. Cheviot Ram. The portrait of a very superior animal, in the possession of my friend Mr Laurie of Terregles town.
Premiums were awarded to Mr Laurie for both of these sheep at the last meeting of the Highland Society in Dumfries.
Fig. 3. View of the veins of the face and neck; f.v. facial vein; j.v. jugular vein.
Figs. 1. 2. 3. from the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, represent the most approved mode of washing and shearing sheep.
Fig. 5. Relative positions of the layers of the skin, mode in which the hairs rise from, and situation of, the sebaceous follicles; a. the cuticle; b. the mucous layer; c. the true skin; d. sebaceous follicles; e. hairs rising from the true skin; f. the yolk.
Fig. 1. Section of the lung of a sheep which has been over-driven.
Fig. 2. Section of the lung of a sheep which has been affected with Rot.
Fig. 3. The pentastoma. Hitherto supposed to exist only in the dog and wolf, but discovered recently in the frontal sinus of the sheep by my friend Mr Rhind of Edinburgh, by whom the drawing for this figure was kindly furnished.
Fig. 1. Hydatid in the brain of a sheep (from a drawing by my friend Dr Kirk of Deal); a. the right lobe of the cerebellum or lesser brain distended with fluid, inclosed in a membraneous bag, as shown at b., where an incision has been made to expose it; and at c. where it is shining through the pia mater, one of the coverings of the brain.
Fig. 2. Showing the extent to which hydatids sometimes distend the ventricles of the brain; a. the dilated ventricle of the left side; b. b. convolutions passing from back to front; c. d. depth of the furrows.
THE SHEEP.