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capture, and partly by long-continued droughts. Rainy weather is wholesome
to the generality of shellfish owing to the fact that the sea-water then becomes
exceptionally sweet. In the Euxine, owing to the coldness of the climate,
shellfish are not found: nor yet in rivers, excepting a few bivalves here and
there. Univalves, by the way, are very apt to freeze to death in extremely cold
weather. So much for animals that live in water.
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To turn to quadrupeds, the pig suffers from three diseases, one of which is
called branchos, a disease attended with swellings about the windpipe and the
jaws. It may break out in any part of the body; very often it attacks the foot,
and occasionally the ear; the neighbouring parts also soon rot, and the decay
goes on until it reaches the lungs, when the animal succumbs. The disease
develops with great rapidity, and the moment it sets in the animal gives up
eating. The swineherds know but one way to cure it, namely, by complete
excision, when they detect the first signs of the disease. There are two other
diseases, which are both alike termed craurus. The one is attended with pain
and heaviness in the head, and this is the commoner of the two, the other with
diarrhoea. The latter is incurable, the former is treated by applying wine
fomentations to the snout and rinsing the nostrils with wine. Even this disease
is very hard to cure; it has been known to kill within three or four days. The
animal is chiefly subject to branchos when it gets extremely fat, and when the
heat has brought a good supply of figs. The treatment is to feed on mashed
mulberries, to give repeated warm baths, and to lance the under part of the
tongue.
Pigs with flabby flesh are subject to measles about the legs, neck, and
shoulders, for the pimples develop chiefly in these parts. If the pimples are
few in number the flesh is comparatively sweet, but if they be numerous it
gets watery and flaccid. The symptoms of measles are obvious, for the
pimples show chiefly on the under side of the tongue, and if you pluck the
bristles off the chine the skin will appear suffused with blood, and further the
animal will be unable to keep its hind-feet at rest. Pigs never take this disease
while they are mere sucklings. The pimples may be got rid of by feeding on
this kind of spelt called tiphe; and this spelt, by the way, is very good for
ordinary food. The best food for rearing and fattening pigs is chickpeas and
figs, but the one thing essential is to vary the food as much as possible, for
this animal, like animals in general lights in a change of diet; and it is said
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156