Veterinary Medicine: A Textbook of the Diseases of Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats and Horses - Hardcover

Radostits CM DVM MSc MRCVS Dipl ACVIM, Otto M.; Blood OBE BVSc MVSc Hon LLD Hon DVSc HonAssocRCVS FACVSc, Douglas C.; Gay DVM MVSc Hon DVSc FACVSc Hon Diplomate ACVIM, Clive C.

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9780702015922: Veterinary Medicine: A Textbook of the Diseases of Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats and Horses

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ISBN 10: 070201592X ISBN 13: 9780702015922

Publisher: Bailliere Tindall, 1994

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The 8th edition of this universally popular textbook has been extensively revised to includes information on such diseases as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, borreliosis, blue-eared disease of pigs, hyperkalemic periodic paresis, frostbite in calves, and weak calf syndrome. In addition, the sections on general medicine, equine colic, and diseases of the newborn and colostrum have been expanded.

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The eighth edition of this textbook has been extensively revised to encompass the most important advances of the past six years. In addition to a systematic overhaul of all the sections on general medicine - in particular the nervous, alimentary, respiratory and urinary systems - the following important changes have been introduced: the section on equine colic has been completely rewritten; the parts of the book concerning bovine mastitis and coliform mastitis have been thoroughly revised; and information of diseases of the new-born and colostrum has been expanded and updated. New disease covered are bovine spongiform encephalopathy, borreliosis, blue-eared disease of pigs, hyperkalemic periodic paresis, frostbite in calves and weak calf syndrome; and exotic diseases include foot and mouth disease, vesicular stomatitis, rinderpest, trypanosomiasis, heart water, theileriosis and East Coast fever have all been expertly revised.

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