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Title: The American Reformed Cattle Doctor
Author: George H. Dadd
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Language: English
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN REFORMED CATTLE DOCTOR ***
THE
AMERICAN REFORMED
CATTLE DOCTOR;
CONTAINING
THE NECESSARY INFORMATION
FOR
PRESERVING THE HEALTH AND CURING THE DISEASES
OF
OXEN, COWS, SHEEP, AND SWINE,
WITH
A GREAT VARIETY OF ORIGINAL RECIPES,
AND
VALUABLE INFORMATION IN REFERENCE TO
FARM AND DAIRY MANAGEMENT;
WHEREBY
EVERY MAN CAN BE HIS OWN CATTLE DOCTOR.
THE PRINCIPLES TAUGHT IN THIS WORK ARE, THAT ALL MEDICATION
SHALL BE SUBSERVIENT TO NATURE; THAT ALL MEDICINAL AGENTS
MUST BE
SANATIVE IN THEIR OPERATION, AND ADMINISTERED
WITH A
VIEW OF AIDING THE VITAL POWERS, INSTEAD OF
DEPRESSING,
AS HERETOFORE, WITH THE
LANCET AND POISON.
BY
G. H. DADD, M. D., VETERINARY PRACTITIONER,
AUTHOR OF "ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HORSE."
BOSTON:
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY,
110 Washington Street.
1851.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by
G. H. DADD, M. D.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| Introduction, | 9 | |
| CATTLE | ||
| Importance of supplying Cattle with pure Water, | 15 | |
| Remarks on feeding Cattle, | 17 | |
| The Barn and Feeding Byre, | 21 | |
| Milking, | 24 | |
| Knowledge of Agricultural and Animal Chemistry important to Farmers, | 25 | |
| On Breeding, | 30 | |
| The Bull, | 34 | |
| Value of different breeds of Cows, | 35 | |
| Method of preparing Rennet, as practised in England, | 36 | |
| Making Cheese, | 37 | |
| Gloucester Cheese, | 38 | |
| Chester Cheese, | 39 | |
| Stilton Cheese, | 40 | |
| Dunlop Cheese, | 41 | |
| Green Cheese, | 42 | |
| Making Butter, | 44 | |
| Washing Butter, | 45 | |
| Coloring Butter, | 46 | |
| Description of the Organs of Digestion in Cattle, | 47 | |
| Respiration and Structure of the Lungs, | 53 | |
| Circulation of the Blood, | 54 | |
| The Heart viewed externally, | 55 | |
| Remarks on Blood-letting, | 58 | |
| Efforts of Nature to remove Disease, | 67 | |
| Proverbs of the Veterinary Reformers, | 70 | |
| An Inquiry concerning the Souls of Brutes, | 72 | |
| The Reformed Practice—Synoptical View of the Prominent Systems of Medicine, | 75 | |
| Creed of the Reformers, | 79 | |
| True Principles, | 80 | |
| Inflammation, | 88 | |
| Remarks, showing that very little is known of the Nature and Treatment of Disease, | 94 | |
| Nature, Treatment, and Causes of Disease in Cattle, | 105 | |
| Pleuro-Pneumonia, | 107 | |
| Locked-Jaw, | 115 | |
| Inflammatory Diseases, | 121 | |
| Inflammation of the Stomach, (Gastritis,) | 121 | |
| Inflammation of the Lungs, (Pneumonia,) | 122 | |
| Inflammation of the Bowels, (Enteritis.—Inflammation of the Fibro-Muscular Coat of the Intestines,) | 124 | |
| Inflammation of the Peritoneal Coat of the Intestines, (Peritonitis,) | 125 | |
| Inflammation of the Kidneys, (Nephritis,) | 125 | |
| Inflammation of the Bladder, (Cystitis,) | 126 | |
| Inflammation of the Womb, | 126 | |
| Inflammation of the Brain, (Phrenitis,) | 127 | |
| Inflammation of the Eye, | 128 | |
| Inflammation of the Liver, (Hepatitis,) | 128 | |
| Jaundice, or Yellows, | 130 | |
| Diseases of the Mucous Surface, | 132 | |
| Catarrh, or Hoose, | 133 | |
| Epidemic Catarrh, | 134 | |
| Malignant Epidemic, (Murrain,) | 135 | |
| Diarrhœa, (Looseness of the Bowels,) | 136 | |
| Dysentery, | 138 | |
| Scouring Rot, | 139 | |
| Disease of the Ear, | 140 | |
| Serous Membranes, | 140 | |
| Dropsy, | 141 | |
| Hoove, or "Blasting," | 144 | |
| Joint Murrain, | 147 | |
| Black Quarter, | 149 | |
| Open Joint, | 151 | |
| Swellings of Joints, | 152 | |
| Sprain of the Fetlock, | 153 | |
| Strain of the Hip, | 154 | |
| Foul in the Foot, | 154 | |
| Red Water, | 157 | |
| Black Water, | 160 | |
| Thick Urine, | 160 | |
| Rheumatism, | 161 | |
| Blain, | 162 | |
| Thrush, | 163 | |
| Black Tongue, | 163 | |
| Inflammation of the Throat and its Appendages, | 163 | |
| Bronchitis, | 164 | |
| Inflammation of Glands, | 164 | |
| Loss of Cud, | 166 | |
| Colic, | 166 | |
| Spasmodic Colic, | 167 | |
| Constipation, | 168 | |
| Falling down of the Fundament, | 171 | |
| Calving, | 171 | |
| Embryotomy, | 175 | |
| Falling of the Calf-Bed, or Womb, | 176 | |
| Garget, | 177 | |
| Sore Teats, | 178 | |
| Chapped Teats and Chafed Udder, | 178 | |
| Fever, | 178 | |
| Milk or Puerperal Fever, | 182 | |
| Inflammatory Fever, | 183 | |
| Typhus Fever, | 186 | |
| Horn Ail in Cattle, | 189 | |
| Abortion in Cows, | 191 | |
| Cow-Pox, | 194 | |
| Mange, | 195 | |
| Hide-bound, | 196 | |
| Lice, | 196 | |
| Importance of keeping the Skin of Animals in a Healthy State, | 197 | |
| Spaying Cows, | 201 | |
| Operation of Spaying, | 204 | |
| SHEEP | ||
| Preliminary Remarks, | 209 | |
| Staggers, | 219 | |
| Foot Rot, | 220 | |
| Rot, | 221 | |
| Epilepsy, | 222 | |
| Red Water, | 223 | |
| Cachexy, or General Debility, | 224 | |
| Loss of Appetite, | 224 | |
| Foundering, (Rheumatism,) | 224 | |
| Ticks, | 225 | |
| Scab, or Itch, | 225 | |
| Diarrhœa, | 227 | |
| Dysentery, | 227 | |
| Constipation, or Stretches, | 228 | |
| Scours, | 230 | |
| Dizziness, | 231 | |
| Jaundice, | 232 | |
| Inflammation of the Kidneys, | 232 | |
| Worms, | 233 | |
| Diseases of the Stomach from eating Poisonous Plants, | 233 | |
| Sore Nipples, | 234 | |
| Fractures, | 234 | |
| Common Catarrh and Epidemic Influenza, | 235 | |
| Castrating Lambs, | 236 | |
| Nature of Sheep, | 237 | |
| The Ram, | 238 | |
| Leaping, | 239 | |
| Argyleshire Breeders, | 239 | |
| Fattening Sheep, | 240 | |
| Improvement in Sheep, | 244 | |
| Description of the Different Breeds of Sheep, | 249 | |
| Teeswater Breed, | 249 | |
| Lincolnshire Breed, | 250 | |
| Dishley Breed, | 250 | |
| Cotswold Breed, | 250 | |
| Romney Marsh Breed, | 251 | |
| Devonshire Breed, | 251 | |
| Dorsetshire Breed, | 251 | |
| Wiltshire Breed, | 252 | |
| South Down Breed, | 252 | |
| Herdwick Breed, | 253 | |
| Cheviot Breed, | 253 | |
| Merino Breed, | 253 | |
| Welsh Sheep, | 254 | |
| SWINE. | ||
| Preliminary Remarks, | 255 | |
| Natural History of the Hog, | 259 | |
| Generalities, | 262 | |
| General Debility, or Emaciation, | 263 | |
| Epilepsy, or Fits, | 264 | |
| Rheumatism, | 264 | |
| Measles, | 265 | |
| Ophthalmia, | 266 | |
| Vermin, | 266 | |
| Red Eruption, | 267 | |
| Dropsy, | 267 | |
| Catarrh, | 267 | |
| Colic, | 268 | |
| Diarrhœa, | 268 | |
| Frenzy, | 268 | |
| Jaundice, | 269 | |
| Soreness of the Feet, | 269 | |
| Spaying, | 270 | |
| Various Breeds of Swine, | 271 | |
| Berkshire Breed, | 271 | |
| Hamphire Breed, | 271 | |
| Shropshire Breed, | 272 | |
| Chinese Breed, | 272 | |
| Boars and Sows for Breeding, | 272 | |
| Rearing Pigs, | 273 | |
| Fattening Hogs, | 275 | |
| Method of Curing Swine's Flesh, | 277 | |
| APPENDIX | ||
| On the Action of Medicines, | 279 | |
| Clysters, | 281 | |
| Forms of Clysters, | 283 | |
| Infusions, | 286 | |
| Antispasmodics, | 287 | |
| Fomentations, | 287 | |
| Mucilages, | 289 | |
| Washes, | 289 | |
| Physic for Cattle, | 290 | |
| Mild Physic for Cattle, | 291 | |
| Poultices, | 292 | |
| Styptics, to arrest Bleeding, | 296 | |
| Absorbents, | 296 | |
| Forms of Absorbents, | 297 | |
| VETERINARY MATERIA MEDICA, embracing a List of the various Remedies used by the Author of this work in the Practice of Medicine on Cattle, Sheep, and Swine, | 299 | |
| General Remarks on Medicines, | 312 | |
| Properties of Plants, | 315 | |
| Potato, | 316 | |
| TREATMENT OF DISEASE IN DOGS—Preliminary Remarks, | 323 | |
| Distemper, | 325 | |
| Fits, | 326 | |
| Worms, | 327 | |
| Mange, | 328 | |
| Internal Abscess of the Ear, | 329 | |
| Ulceration of the Ear, | 329 | |
| Inflammation of the Bowels, | 329 | |
| Inflammation of the Bladder, | 330 | |
| Asthma, | 331 | |
| Piles, | 331 | |
| Dropsy, | 332 | |
| Sore Throat, | 332 | |
| Sore Ears, | 332 | |
| Sore Feet, | 333 | |
| Wounds, | 333 | |
| Sprains, | 333 | |
| Scalds, | 334 | |
| Ophthalmia, | 334 | |
| Weak Eyes, | 335 | |
| Fleas and Vermin, | 335 | |
| Hydrophobia, | 335 | |
| MALIGNANT MILK SICKNESS of the Western States, or Contgious Typhus, | 339 | |
| BONE DISORDER IN COWS, | 351 | |