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DR VISWANATHAN,MVSc., ERODE. TNPSC VAS NEW Syllabus Code No.172 SUBJECT: VETERINARY SCIENCE (DEGREE STANDA RD) current livestock programmes and policies of state and Nation - economics of dairy, sheep, goat, poultry, pig and rabbit farming; constraints to the livestock development programs, common offences against animals +SPCA, Animal Welfare Board of india, NGOs.
DR VISWANATHAN,MVSc., ERODE. TNPSC VAS NEW Syllabus Code No.172 SUBJECT: VETERINARY SCIENCE (DEGREE STANDA RD) current livestock programmes and policies of state and Nation - economics of dairy, sheep, goat, poultry, pig and rabbit farming; constraints to the livestock development programs, common offences against animals +SPCA, Animal Welfare Board of india, NGOs.
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DR VISWANATHAN,MVSc., ERODE. TNPSC VAS NEW Syllabus Code No.172 SUBJECT: VETERINARY SCIENCE (DEGREE STANDA RD) current livestock programmes and policies of state and Nation - economics of dairy, sheep, goat, poultry, pig and rabbit farming; constraints to the livestock development programs, common offences against animals +SPCA, Animal Welfare Board of india, NGOs.
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E COMMISSION NEW SYLLABUS Code No.172 SUBJECT: VETERINARY SCIENCE (DEGREE STANDA RD) UNIT I: General Role of livestock and their products in Indian economy and h uman health; current livestock programmes and policies of state and Nation - economics of dairy, sheep, goat, poultry, pig and rabbit farming; constraints to the livestock development programs, common offences against animals ± SPCA , Animal Welfare Board of India, NGOs. UNIT II : Livestock Management Common terms used in Animal Husbandry ± Identificat ion of age of animals - Livestock and poultry breeds and breed characters; housing systems, and requirements of space, ventilation, water, sanitation and waste disposal. Management of milk, meat, egg and wool producing livestock, breeding bulls and draft animals and wild animals in captivity, farm records and their maintenance; systems and strategies for livestock improvement for enhancing productivity. UNIT III: Livestock Nutrition Nutritional terms and definitions - Role of nutrit ion in health and production; classification and composition of feeds and fodder s including forest grasses; antinutritional factors and toxins in feeds and fodd ers; feeding standards and nutrient requirements of different categories of livestock and computation of rations. Nutritional deficiency and its influence on livestock performance; feed supplements and additives; conservation and preservation of feeds and fodders; economic utilization of agro by-products for feeding livestock. - utilization of unconventional feeds ± Wildlife nutrition. UNIT IV: Livestock Breeding and Genetics: Important breeds of cattle, buffalo, s heep, goat, pig and poultry with special reference to economic characters ± Important species of wild animals and their breeding in capacity. Breeding livestock for high performance and disease resistance; principles of genetics; nature of DNA and RNA-their models and functions; applications of recombinant DNA technology, cloning and role of gene actions and cytogenetics. Animal breeding policies and programmes in state and Nation. DR P VISWANATHAN,MVSc., ERODE. TNPSC VAS NEW Syllabus 2 UNIT V Veterinar y Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry: Gross study of bones, joints and muscles of skeleton. Gross study of heart and its conduction system. Gross study of organs of digestive, respiratory urinary a nd reproductive systems. Digestion, metabolism and absorption of carbohydrates, proteins and fats in simple stomach animals and ruminants - mechanism of respiration. General functions of blood (blood cells, plasma & serum) coagulation, cardiac cycle, Blood circulation, Blood pressure, renal function. Hormonal control of Lactogenesis. Environmental factors affecting animal production ± Environmental stress on animal performance ± Green Houses Gases ± Role of ruminants UNIT VI Veterinary Microbiology, Pathology, Parasitology and Pharmacology: Conce pt and causes of diseases in animals; general principles and procedures of necropsy; collection, preservation and dispatch of morbid materials for laborato ry diagnosis, disease investigation; common pathological conditions seen in wild zoo and laboratory animals and birds.Immune systemorgans, tissues and cells; infection and immunity; type and grade of immunity, serological reactions and modern diagnostic techniques ± vaccine. Classification of Parasites - Parasites and parasitism in animals; important morphological features, life-cycles, mode of transmission, pathogenesis, diagnosis, chemotherapy and general control measures of parasites associated with disease in animals, birds and zoo animals. Drug action - Pharmacokinetics (absorption, distribution, biotransformation and excretion), Pharmacodynamics - local and general anaesthetics. Antibiotics and chemotheraphy - Toxicology. UNIT VII :Veterinary Epidemiology, Medicine and Public Health: Environmental hyg iene; role of veterinarian in public health; zoonoses including food-borne diseases: concept, scope, objectives and uses of epidemiology ± classification ± mode of transmission ± method of prevention ± control and eradication, of infectious diseases. Infections including major contagious diseases and noninfectious diseases affecting livestock, birds and wild animals aetiology, clinical examination symptoms, pathogenesity, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, treatment and control, establishment of Animal Healthcare Centres. UNIT VIII: Veterinary Gynaecology and Obstetrics: Reproductive physiology; hormo nes and reproduction; livestock fertility; artificial insemination; semen charac teristics of different species of livestock and cryopreservation. Multiple ovula tion and embryo transfer technology in livestock, and zoo animals Reproductive d isorders and their management. DR P VISWANATHAN,MVSc., ERODE. TNPSC VAS NEW Syl labus 3 UNIT IX: Veterinary Surgery and Radiology: General surgical principles - pre and post-operative considerations, anesthesia, asepsis and anti-sepsis and sterilization; scope, history and development of veterinary radiology; radiographic pathology of different parts of body- surgica l emergencies ± intensive care ± Physiotheraphy ± diathermy. UNIT X: Livestock Products Technology: Ante mortem and Post mortem inspection ± Ob jectives of meat inspection - Abattoir practices, methods of slaughtering and dressing; Meat Inspection Laws, utilization of by products; unsound meat and its disposal; quality control of me at and eggs and their products. Milk: Proximate Composition, milk collection, cooling / chilling and transportation; physio-chemical and nutritional character s of milk and milk products; processing of raw milk and production of market milk. Condensed and dried milk, special milk and Indian Dairy Products-packaging and storage. Cleaning and sanitization of dairy equipments and plants; role of micro organisms in milk and milk products; legal standards and quality assessment of milk and milk products ± role of milk and milk products, meat and egg in human nutrition ± detection of adulterants in milk. References: 1. Helminths, Arthropods and protozoa of domesticated animals by W. J. L. Soulsby ± 7th Edition ± ELBS Edition Bailiere Tindall. 2. Veterinary Parasitology by U.M. Urquhart, - J. Armour, J.L. Duncan, A.M. Dunn & A.W. Jennies. Publisher : Baillere and Tindall ± ELBS Edition. 3. Essential of Veterinary Surgery ± Venugopal Publisher: Oxford and IBH Publishin g Co., Pvt. Ltd., Calcutta. 4. Dollars Veterinary Surgery J.J.O. CONNOR 4th Edition. CBS Publishers and Dist ributors 485, Jain Bhawan Bhola Nath Nagar, Shahdara, Delhi ± 100 032. 5. Extension Education ± Adivi Reddy Publisher : Sree Lakshmi Press, Babatala, Kri shna t., Andhra Pradesh. 6. Education and Communication for Development ± O.P. Dohama & O.P. Bhatnagar Publisher : Oxford & IBH Publishing Com. New Delhi. 7. Veterinary Medicine : A Text book of the disease of Cattle, Sheep, Dogs, Goat and Horses 8th Edition. Author : Blood D.C., Radosits O.M. English Language book soc iety / Bailliere Tindall. 8. Veterinary Clinical Diagnosis, Kelly W.R. Bailliers Tindall, 1st Anne¶s Road, E ast bourne East sussex BM 21 3 UK. 9. Harper¶s Text Book of Biochemistry ± by Murray (Robert. K) Etc., Publisher: Prent ice Hall, International Inc., 10. Text book of Biochemistry ± G.R. Agarval & O.P. Agraval. 11. Duke¶s Physiology of Domestic Animals 11th Edition Publisher: Comstock, Cornel l University Press. 12. Veterinary Reproduction and Obstetrics 6th Edition ± Arthur G.H. & Etc. Publis her: ELBS. DR P VISWANATHAN,MVSc., ERODE. TNPSC VAS NEW Syllabus 4 13. Reproduction in DOme stic Animals ± Cole (H.H) and Cupps (P.T) 4th Edition Publisher : Academic Press Inc. 14. Meat Hygiene, 4th Edition James A Libby, Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia 1975. 15. The Meat W e Eat, 11th Edition Johnson R. Romans & P. Thomas Ziegler, The In terstate Printers and Publishers Inc. 16. The Anatomy of Domestic Animals 2 Volumes ± Robert Getty. The Macmillan India Ltd., Madras ± 2. 17. Text Book of Developmental Anatomy ± L.B. Arey Asia Publishing House, Bomaby. 18. Fundamental Principles of Bacteriology by A.J. Salle Publisher: Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company, New Delhi. 19. Medical Microbiology ± Robert Cruickshank Publisher: English language book soc iety and E & S Livingstone Ltd., 20. Poultry production ± B. Panda and S.C. Mohapatra Publisher: I.C.A.R. Publicati on. 21. Poultry Nutrition by K.S. SIngh & B. Panda Publisher: Kalyani Publications. 22. Veterinary Applied Pharmacology and Therapeutics ± G.C. Brander D.M.-Pugh Publisher: ELBS. 23. Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics by L. Meyar Jones Publisher: Comsto ck Cornell University Press. 24. Infectious Diseases of Domestic animals ± Hagan & Bruner Publisher: Comstock C ornell University Press. 25. Diseases of Livestock ± Hungerford Publisher: McGraw Hill Book Company. 26. Farm Animal Management & Poultry Production ± N.S.r. Sastry and C.K. Thomas. 27. Livestock and Poultry Production ± Harban Singh and Moore Publisher : Prentice Hall India. 28. Statistical Methods ± S.P. Gupta Publisher : Sultan Chand & Sons. 29. The Design and Analysis of experiments by Kempthorne O. Publisher: Wiley, Ne wyork. 30. Fundamentals of Farm Business Management ± S.S. Joshi and T>R. Kapur Publisher : Kalyani Publishers. 31. Modern Economic Theory ± K.K. Dewett and A. Chand. 32. A text book on Biotechnology ± H.D. Kumar, Publisher: Affilated East West Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. 33. Biotechnology ± Principles and application ± Higgin, Best and Jones Black well Scientific Publication, Oxford. 34. Animal Nutrition ± Mc Donald, R.A. Edwards & J.F.D Green Halgh 4th Edition 198 8 Longman Scientific and Technical John Wiley & Sons Inc. 35. Animal Nutrition ± A. Maynard and K. loosli, 7th Edition, TataMcGraw Hill Comp any Ltd., New Delhi. 36. Principles of Agronomy by Subbiah (V.T.) Publisher: Bangalore Printing & Pub lishing Co., Ltd., Bangalore ± 18. 37. Dairy Science ± Petersen (W.E.) Publisher : Lippincott and Company. 38. Outlines of Dairy Technology ± Sukumar (De) Oxford University Press. 39. Indian Dairy Products ± Rangappa (K.S.) & Acharya (K.T.) Asia Publishing House . 40. The UFAW Hand book on the care and Management of Laboratory Animals Authors / Editors ± UFAW, C.W. Hume Publisher: Churchill Livingston, 6th edition. 41. Laboratory Animal Medicine ± James G. Fox, Bennett J. Chechen Franklin M. Loew Academic Press Inc., (Harcourt Brace, Jovanowich). 42. Veterinary Pathology ± Jones (Thomas Carlyle) 5th edition 1989 Lea & Febgiger. 43. Veterinary Clinical Pathology Embert H. Coles Publisher: W.B. Saunders Compa ny. 44. Genetics of Livestock Improvement by J.F. Lasley Publisher: Prentice Hall, N ew Delhi. 45. Principles of Genetics by Gardener. E.J. Publisher : Kliley Eastern Pvt. Ltd ., New Delhi. 46. Genetics by A.M. Winchester Publisher: Oxford IBH. DR P VISWANATHAN,MVSc., ERODE. TNPSC VAS NEW Syllabus 5 TNPSC WEBSITE SHOWING O LDV A SS Y L L A B U S (ANIMAL HUSBANDRY & VETERINARY SCIENCE) DEGREE STANDARD P APER -I CODE:118 ANIMAL PRODUCTION 1. GENERAL:- Current Livestock Development pr ogrammes and polices of State and Nation - Legislation for control of animal dis eases - Legal duties of Veterinarian - Common offences against animals and laws governing import and export of animals. 2. ANIMAL BREEDING AND GENETICS:- Import ant breeds of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and poultry with special referen ce to economic characters. Animal breeding - Aids to selection, methods of selection a nd culling - current breeding policies and programmes in state and the Nation - Bre eding methods - different mating systems. Hady weinberg law, Effects of selection, mig ration, and mutation - Gene frequency. Wild life breeding in captivity - Economic traits , Collection, evaluation and preservation of semen. 3. ANIMAL NUTRITION:- Nutritional terms and definitions - Proximate composition of feeds - digestion and metabolism of nutrients in ruminants and non-ruminants. Importance of minerals a nd Vitamins in ruminants & non ruminants - classification of feeds and fodders - st orage and conservation of feeds and fodders - feeding standards - formulation of rations a nd feeding of dairy cattle and buffaloes - Utilisation of unconventional feeds animal by - products - DR P VISWANATHAN,MVSc., ERODE. TNPSC VAS NEW Syllabus 9 6. Veter inar y Science : (i) Major contagious diseases affecting cattle, buffaloes, horses, sheep and g oats, pigs, poultry, rabbits and pet animals- Etiology, symptoms, pathogenicity, diagnosis, treatment and control of major bacterial, viral, rickettsial and par asitic infections.(ii) Description, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of the fol lowing :?(a) Production diseases of milch animals, pig and poultry.(b) Deficienc y diseases of domestic livestock and birds.(c) Poisonings due to infected/contam inated foods and feeds, chemicals and drugs. 7. Pr incipleso f immunizatio n and vaccinatio n : Different types of immunity, antigens and antibodies. Methods of immunization. Breakdown of immunity, Vaccine s and their use in animals.Zoonoses, Foodborne infections and intoxications, occ upation hazards 8. (a) Poisons used for killing animals euthanesia.(b) Drugs use d for increasing production/performance efficiency, and their adverse effects.(c ) Drugs used to tranquilize wild animals as well as animals in captivity.(d) Qua rantine measures in India and abroad. Act, Rules and Regulations. 9. Dair y Scie nce : Physicochemical and nutritional properties of milk.Quality assessment of m ilk and milk products, Common tests and legal standards. Cleaning and sanitation of dairy equipment. Milk collections, chilling, transportation processing, pack aging, storage and distribution. Manufacture of market milk, cream butter, chees e, ice-cream, condensed and dried milk, by products and Indian Milk products. Un it operations in dairy plant.Role of micro organisam in quality of milk and prod ucts physiology of milk secretion. Paper- I 1. Animal Nutr itio n: 1.1 Partition ing of food energy within the animal. Direct and indirect calorimetry. Carbon ? nitrogen balance and comparative slaughter methods. Systems for expressing energ y value of foods in ruminants, pigs and poultry. Energy requirements for mainten ance, growth, pregnancy, lactation, egg, wool, and meat production. 1.2 Latest advances in protein nutrition. Energy protein interrelationships. Eva luation of protein quality. Use of NPN compounds in ruminant diets. Protein requ irements for maintenance, growth, pregnancy, lactation, egg, wool and meat produ ction. 1.3 Major and trace minerals - Their sources, physiological functions and deficiency symptoms. Toxic minerals. Mineral interactions. Role of fat- soluble and water ? soluble vitamins in the body, their sources and deficiency symptoms . 1.4 Feed additives ? methane inhibitors, probiotics, enzymes, antibiotics, hor mones, oligosaccharides, antioxidants, emulsifiers, mould inhibitors, buffers et c. Use and abuse of growth promoters like hormones and antibiotics ? latest conc epts. 1.5 Conservation of fodders. Storage of feeds and feed ingredients. Recent advances in feed technology and feed processing. Anti ? nutritional and toxic f actors present in livestock feeds. Feed analysis and quality control. Digestibil ity trials ? direct, indirect and indicator methods. Predicting feed intake in g razing animals. 1.6 Advances in ruminant nutrition. Nutrient requirements. Balanced rations. Fee ding of calves, pregnant, work animals and breeding bulls. Strategies for feedin g milch animals during different stages of lactation cycle. Effect of feeding on milk composition. Feeding of goats for meat and milk production. Feeding of she ep for meat and w ool production. 1.7 Swine Nutrition. Nutrient requirements. Creep, starter, grower and finisher rations. Feeding of pigs for lean meat production. Low cost rations for swine. 1 .8 Poultry nutrition. Special features of poultry nutrition. Nutrient requiremen ts for meat and egg production. Formulation of rations for different classes of layers and broilers. 2. Animal Physio lo gy 2.1 Physiology of blood and its circ ulation, respiration; excretion. Endocrine glands in health and disease. 2.2 Blo od constituents.-Properties and functions-blood cell formation-Haemoglobin synth esis and chemistry-plasma proteins production, classification and properties, co agulation of blood;Haemorrhagic disorders-anticoagulants-blood groups-Blood volu me-Plasma expanders- Buffer systems in blood. Biochemical tests and their signif icance in disease diagnosis. 2.3 Circulation. - Physiology of heart, cardiac cycle, heart sounds, heart beat, electrocardiograms. Work and efficiency of heart-effect of ions on heart functi on-metabolism of cardiac muscle, nervous and chemical regulation of heart, effec t of temperature and stress on heart, blood pressure and hypertension, osmotic r egulation, arterial pulse, vasomotor regulation of circulation, shock. Coronary and pulmonary circulation, Blood-Brain barrier- Cerebrospinal fluid- circulation in birds. 2.4 Respiration. - Mechanism of respiration, Transport and exchange of gases ?ne ural control of respiration-chemo-receptors-hypoxia- respiration in birds. 2.5 E xcretion-Structure and function of kidney-formation of urine-methods of studying renal function-renal regulation of acid-base balance: physiological constituent s of urine-renal failure-passive venous congestion-Urinary secretion in chicken- Sweat glands and their function. Bio- chemical test for urinary dysfunction. 2.6 Endocrine glands. -Functional disorders their symptoms and diagnosis. Synthe sis of hormones, mechanism and control of secretion- hormonal receptors-classifi cation and function. 2.7 Growth and Animal Production- Prenatal and postnatal gr owth, maturation, growth curves, measures of growth, factors affecting growth, c onformation, body composition, meat quality. 2.8 Physiology of Milk Production, Reproduction and Digestion- Current status of hormonal control of mammary develo pment, milk secretion and milk ejection, Male and Female reproductive organs, th eir components and functions. Digestive organs and their functions. 2.9 Environm ental Physiology- Physiological relations and their regulation; mechanisms of ad aptation, environmental factors and regulatory mechanisms involved in animal beh aviour, climatology ? various parameters and their importance. Animal ecology. P hysiology of behaviour. Effect of stress on health and production. 3. Animal Repro ductio n: DR P VISWANATHAN,MVSc., ERODE. TNPSC VAS NEW Syllabus 10 Semen quality- Preservation and Artificial Insemination- Components of semen, composition of spermatozoa, chemical and physical properties of ejaculated seme n, factors affecting semen in vivo and in vitro. Factors affecting semen product ion and quality, preservation, composition of diluents, sperm concentration, tra nsport of diluted semen. Deep freezing techniques in cows, sheep, goats, swine a nd poultry. Detection of oestrus and time of insemination for better conception. Anoestrus and repeat breeding. 4. Livesto ck Pro ductio n and Management: 4.1 Commercial Dairy Farming- Compari son of dairy farming in India with advanced countries. Dairying under mixed farm ing and as specialized farming, economic dairy farming. Starting of a dairy farm , Capital and land requirement, organization of the dairy farm. Opportunities in dairy farming, factors determining the efficiency of dairy animal. Herd recordi ng, budgeting, cost of milk production, pricing policy; Personnel Management. De veloping Practical and Economic rations for dairy cattle; supply of greens throu ghout the year, feed and fodder requirements of Dairy Farm. Feeding regimes for young stock and bulls, heifers and breeding animals; new trends in feeding young and adult stock; Feeding records. 4.2 Commercial meat, egg and wool production- Development of practical and econo mic rations for sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits and poultry. Supply of greens, fodde r, feeding regimes for young and mature stock. New trends in enhancing productio n and management. Capital and land requirements and socio- economic concept. 4.3 Feeding and management of animals under drought, flood and other natural cal amities. 5. Genetics and Animal Br eeding: History of animal genetics. Mitosis a nd Meiosis: Mendelian inheritance; deviations to Mendelian genetics; Expression of genes; Linkage and crossing over; Sex determination, sex influenced and sex l imited characters; Blood groups and polymorphism; Chromosome aberrations; Cytopl asmic inheritance. Gene and its structure; DNA as a genetic material; Genetic co de and protein synthesis; Recombinant DNA technology. Mutations, types of mutati ons, methods for detecting mutations and mutation rate. Transgenesis. 5.1 Population Genetics applied to Animal Breeding- Quantitative Vs. qualitative traits; Hardy Weinberg Law; Population Vs. individual; Gene and genotypic frequ ency; Forces changing gene frequency; Random drift and small populations; Theory of path coefficient; Inbreeding, methods of estimating inbreeding coefficient, systems of inbreeding, Effective population size; Breeding value, estimation of breeding value, dominance and epistatic deviation; Partitioning of variation; Ge notype X environment correlation and genotype X environment interaction; role of multiple measurements; Resemblance between relatives. 5.2 Breeding Systems- Breeds of livestsock and Poultry. Heritability, repeatabil ity and genetic and phenotypic correlations, their methods of estimation and pre cision of estimates; Aids to selection and their relative merits; Individual, pe digree, family and within family selection; Progeny testing; Methods of selectio n; Construction of selection indices and their uses; Comparative evaluation of g enetic gains through various selection methods; Indirect selection and correlate d response; Inbreeding, out breeding, upgrading, cross-breeding and synthesis of breeds; Crossing of inbred lines for commercial production; Selection for gener al and specific combining ability; Breeding for threshold characters. Sire index . 6. Extension: Basic philosophy, objectives, concept and principles of extension. Different Methods adopted to educate farmers under rural conditions. Generation of technology, its transfer and feedback. Problems and constraints in transfer of technology. Animal husbandry programmes for rural development. Paper- II 1. Anato my, Phar maco lo gy and Hygiene: 1.1 Histology and Histologic al Techniques: Paraffin embedding technique of tissue processing and H.E. staini ng - Freezing microtomy- Microscopy-Bright field microscope and electron microsc ope. Cytology-structure of cell, organells and inclusions; cell division-cell ty pes- Tissues and their classification-embryonic and adult tissues-Comparative hi stology of organs-Vascular. Nervous, digestive, respiratory, musculo- skeletal a nd urogenital systems- Endocrine glands -Integuments-sense organs. 1.2 Embryology ? Embryology of vertebrates with special reference to aves and do mestic mammals gametogenesis-fertilization-germ layers- foetal membranes and pla centation-types of placenta in domestic mammals-Teratology-twins and twinning- o rganogenesis -germ layer derivatives- endodermal, mesodermal and ectodermal deri vates. 1.3 Bovine Anatomy- Regional Anatomy: Paranasal sinuses of OX- surface anatomy o f salivary glands. Regional anatomy of infraorbital, maxillary, mandibuloalveola r,mental and cornual nerve block. Regional anatomy of paravertebral nerves, pude ndal nerve, median ulnar and radial nerves-tibial,fibular and digital nerves-Cra nial nerves-structures involved in epidural anaesthesia-superficial lymph nodes- surface anatomy of visceral organs of thoracic, abdominal and pelvic cavities-co mparative features of locomotor apparatus and their application in the biomechan ics of mammalian body. 1.4 Anatomy of Fowl- Musculo-skeletal system-functional a natomy in relation to respiration and flying, digestion and egg production. 1.5 Pharmacology and therapeutic drugs - Cellular level of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Drugs acting on fluids and electrolyte balance. Drugs acting o n Autonomic nervous system. Modern concepts of anaesthesia and dissociative anae sthetics. Autacoids. Antimicrobials and principles of chemotherapy in microbial infections. Use of hormones in therapeutics- chemotherapy of parasitic infection s. Drug and economic concerns in the Edible tissues of animals- chemotherapy of Neoplastic diseases. Toxicity due to insecticides, plants, metals, non- metals, zootoxins and mycotoxins. 1.6 Veterinary Hygiene with reference to water, air and habitation - Assessment of pollution of water, air and soil- Importance of climate in animal health- eff ect of environment on animal function and performance-relationship between indus trialization and animal agriculture- animal housing requirements for specific ca tegories of domestic animals viz. pregnant cows and sows, milking cows, broiler birds- stress, strain and productivity in relation to animal habitation