Cattle doctor; containing all necessary directions in respect to the diseases and their cure, of cattle, sheep, and swine; also the best method of raising and fattening.

  • Youatt, William, 1776-1847.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Cattle doctor; containing all necessary directions in respect to the diseases and their cure, of cattle, sheep, and swine; also the best method of raising and fattening. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    puLsc falters, or intermits, or the animal begins to heave violently, or threatens to fall. The beast should not be permitted to drink cold water immediately after bleed- ing, nor to graze in the field : the former has sometimes induced troublesome. catarrh, and the latter may cause the orifice to open again. If this operation is performed in the summer season, it will be most prudent to fetch the cattle out of the pasture towards evening, in order that they may be bled ; and, after that, to let them stand in the fold-yard all night, and drive them back to the field on the following morning. PHYSIC. The chief purgatives in use for neat cattle are Glau- ber's salts, Epsom salts, Barbadoes aloes, Linseed oil, and Sulphur, in obstinate constipation of the bowels, ten or fifteen grains of the farina of the Croton nut, freshly prepared, may be added with good effect One pound of Glauber's, or Epsom salts, will puige a full- sized beast. Where there is considerable fever, or the attack of fever is apprehended, there is no purgative so beneficial as the Epsom salts. In bad cases, twenty-four ounces may be given at a dose, and eight ounces of sul- phur every six hours afterwards, until the full purgative effect is produced. Linseed oil is rapidly superseding the more expensive and the more uncertain castor oil: dose is from a pint to a pint and a half. As a mild aperient, and in cases where there is no great degree of fever, and a violent purge is not required, there are few better things than Sulpur. Where nothing else is at lfand, and the case is urgent, Common Salt is no con- temptible medicine.: a pound of it dissolved in water will, produce a very/air purgative effect, but .it should not be given if the animal labors under fever. The fol- lowing are the cases in which purgative medicines are found useful: 1. A purging drink is very properly given to cows soon after calving, in order to prevent, the milk fever. 2. Milch cows in particular, if feeding on herbage, oi