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The volume systematically explains the principles and practice of veterinary medicine, distinguishing general and special pathology, morbid anatomy, and pathological chemistry, and defining disease. It outlines methods of diagnosis, symptomatology, prognosis, prophylaxis and therapeutics. Organized by organs and systems, it surveys diseases of the respiratory tract (nose, throat, lungs, pleura), the heart and circulation, and related parasitic and infectious conditions, with attention to clinical signs, percussion and auscultation, stages and complications. Emphasis is placed on prevention, sanitary measures, and practical treatment approaches for domestic animals.
These are among the most common diseases of this organ and moreover lead to many of the changes in structure to be hereafter noticed so that it is convenient to treat of them here. According to their relative frequency they may be ranged:—1st. Inflammation of the external covering of the heart—pericarditis; 2d. Inflammation of the internal lining membrane of the heart—endocarditis; and 3d. Inflammation of the muscular substance of the heart—carditis.