10.7.96
Dr.Orsini
two handouts: TVA references for smallwood; lab assignment sheet.

this part of the course gets confusing. whereas small miller presented a 
cookbook guide to dissection, there's no such large animal analog. 

note that the horse and the ruminant are really quite different esp. wrt 
GI tract and hindlimb. we're going to be using SMALLWOODs guided tour of 
veterinary anatomy, and it's the best we've found. note that we'll 
dissect a goat instead of a cow because they are quite similar. also 
ponies, small horses, a donkey or two.

how to organize. smallwoods is REQUIRED. get it. read it. read the 
introduction. he's pretty funny. this is called a "guided tour" because 
it's a guide through the animal, and a guide to the textbood (Dyce, Sack, 
and Whatisname.). So, note that the diagrams that he refers to are in 
dyce.
Sack's guide to the dissection of the horse should be found used for 
peanuts. Feel free to get one if you want; not required. Good for 
dissection of distal limb of horse. 95% of all lameness is carpus/hock 
and below. We'll be dissecting "fresh frozen" horse limbs. 

Think of this as the graduate part of the course. Nickel Schumer and 
Sheffely (sp???) three book series. viscera, locomotion, and circulation. 
the viscera book is really good. is a translation from the german. 

So. now we have to remember that large animals are LARGE. they take up 
lots of room. there's a lot of formalin. it's messy. floors are slippery. 
be careful. previous years, skimmed entire animal. now, we're only having 
half the large animals out at one time. 6 groups do one thing, 8 groups 
do another. see blue handout from last week for assignments. note that 
you will need to find your dog head and take it to your new table. dogs 
are tagged in the mouths.

what dissection today? 6 groups will start large animals. (table 37, 
Equine).
everyone else will be doing either spinal canal of dog, or hooves and 
digital bones. Make sure you follow the BLUE sheet as opposed to the 
original lecture weekly schedule, because we're not organized the way the 
weekly schedule says.

how do you know what specifically to look at? Check out the handout given 
today for reading assignments.