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Usage examples of veterinary.

As it turned out, what got dumped in the landfill was not always cleanacetone, hospital waste, veterinary remains, chemical drums and, by some accounts, Freon and asbestos.

I settled for a blanket from the X-ray room and, wrapped to the chin, sat on the padded chair in the office, put my feet up on the desk and read an article in a veterinary journal about oocyte transfers from infertile mares into other mares for gestation, and the possible repercussions in the thoroughbred stud book.

You know -- things like diaphragms, slimming trunks, valves, medical sheaths and probes, urinary rubbers, colostomy tubing, diagnostic fingerstalls, sphygmomanometer bulbs, ostomy bags, veterinary gloves, soil test membranes, gaiters, diving hoods, neck and cuff seals, pneumatic face masks, shot blast capes, helmet covers, incontinence stockings, specialized prophylactics.

Henry Cackleberry Poulette strode into the Henry Cackleberry Poulette Operating Room in the Henry Cackleberry Poulette Wing of the Woodstock, New York, Veterinary Hospital.

In the stockroom the sulphanilamide packets stood in rows, some pounds, others half-pounds, but there were plenty of them because at that time this drug bulked very large in our veterinary life.

Because dogs may fail the physical examination, and because accidents, injuries, and plain old bad luck can happen between the examination day and the start of the race, each musher may bring up to fifteen dogs to the veterinary check.

Lined up beyond are a pewter cup of colored pencils and Biros, a calculator, a stapler, and a notepad printed with the unpronounceable name of some veterinary anesthetic.

Nothing bites on the ribbon of steel, neither the opening door, nor the breath of cold air flowing over my knees, nor the arrival of the veterinary surgeon and his little girl: the music transpierces these vague figures and passes through them.

It was, so people said, the work of an erstwhile veterinary surgeon, and showed a number of life-size horses in a meadow, fantastic horses, blue, violet, and pink, whose astonishing anatomy transpierced their sides.

We learn, moreover, that this mode of instruction was adopted in 1761, so that for more than a century these atrocious operations have been practiced on animals in French veterinary schools.

In all veterinary schools, under such conditions, an incalculable amount of pain inflicted on animals becomes a part of the regular instruction of students.

The common minor ailments of domestic animals can be treated biochemically with most gratifying results but in the event of serious disease, or if the symptoms are in any way unusual, you should immediately consult a veterinary practitioner.

Ansonby had worked in the veterinary arts, and Burny had helped copy some legal contracts with farmers outside the Emerald City.

On the Klaipeda voyage I had learned a lot about the behaviour of animals aboard ship, and now I had the chance to observe the reaction of cows to being whisked into the air I felt a faint twinge of alarm when I remembered a story of how a veterinary surgeon had been in charge of some racehorses flying to America, and one of the animals had gone berserk and kicked a hole in the side of the aircraft.

If some of the dogs were not safe to be sent home, if some of them had medical problems that would preclude their going home, if some required constant veterinary care just to survive, we would then have to notify the owners, and with their concurrence, take the necessary unpleasant step.