Dairy stock : its selection, diseases, and produce, with a description of the Brittany breed / by John Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, John, 1831-1894.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Dairy stock : its selection, diseases, and produce, with a description of the Brittany breed / by John Gamgee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Diseases in which the Eomak Bath may prove op service. Cows are very subject to blood disorders, to fevers, fimctional disturbances of the skin, and other secreting organs; to organic cutaneous diseases which are apt to become chronic, to rheumatic affections, and a large number of inflammatory disorders. In the long category of diseases included under the foregoing heads, we shall find one and all pertain to the kind likely to be much benefited by the therms. But it is to ward off disease, and to preserve health, that amongst dairy stock, particularly in large towns, the Eoman bath might prove of great service. I have to quote again from Dr. Erasmus Wilson's admirable paper on the Heat Cure.* After alluding to many states of the system in which it may be adopted, he says, I might add yery materially to the long list of conditions to which the thermse might be applied vdth advantage, but I limit myself to a single one more; it is that of extensive works, employing a large number of men, either in operations in themselves unsalutary, or in unhealthy localities. The importance * Thermo-Tlierapeia (or the Heat Cure); or the treatment of disease by immersion of the body in heated air. By Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S.—From the British Medical Journal, October 13, 1860.