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
A West Highland Ox The Property of Mr. Elliott of East Ham Essex.
There is no period in the history of the United States when our domestic animals have ranked so high as at the present time; yet there is no subject on which there is such a lamentable want of knowledge as the proper treatment of their diseases.
Governor Briggs, in a recent letter to the author, says, You have my thanks, and, in my opinion, are entitled to the thanks of the community, for entering upon this important work. While the subject has engaged the attention of scientific men in other countries, it has been too long neglected in our own. Cruelty and ignorance have marked our treatment to diseased animals. Ignorant himself both of the disease and the remedy, the owner has been in the habit of administering the popular remedy of every neighbor who had no better powers of knowing what should be done than himself, until the poor animal, if the disease would not have proved fatal, is left alone, until death, with a friendly hand, puts a period to his sufferings: he is, however, often destroyed by the amount or destructive character of the remedies, or else by the cruel mode of administering them. I am persuaded that the community will approve of your exertions, and find it to their interest to support and sustain your system.
The author has labored for several years to substitute a safer and a more efficient system of medication in the treatment of diseased animals, and at the same time to point out to the American people the great benefits they will derive from the diffusion of veterinary education.
That many thousands of our most valuable cattle die under the treatment, which consists of little else than blood-letting, purging, and blistering, no one will deny; and these dangerous and destructive agents are frequently administered by men who are totally unacquainted with the nature of the agents they prescribe. But a better day is dawning; veterinary information is loudly called for—demanded; and the farmers will have it; but it must be a safer and a more efficient system than that heretofore practised .
George H. Dadd
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THE
AMERICAN REFORMED
CATTLE DOCTOR;
OXEN, COWS, SHEEP, AND SWINE,
FARM AND DAIRY MANAGEMENT;
G. H. DADD, M. D., VETERINARY PRACTITIONER,
AUTHOR OF "ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HORSE."
CONTENTS.
IMPORTANCE OF SUPPLYING CATTLE WITH PURE WATER.
REMARKS ON FEEDING CATTLE.
THE BARN AND FEEDING BYRE.
A KNOWLEDGE OF AGRICULTURAL AND ANIMAL CHEMISTRY IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.
ON BREEDING.
METHOD OF PREPARING RENNET, AS PRACTISED IN ENGLAND.
MAKING CHEESE.
MAKING BUTTER.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ORGANS OF DIGESTION IN CATTLE.
RESPIRATION AND STRUCTURE OF THE LUNGS.
CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD.
REMARKS ON BLOOD-LETTING.
EFFORTS OF NATURE TO REMOVE DISEASE.
PROVERBS OF THE VETERINARY REFORMERS.
AN INQUIRY CONCERNING THE SOULS OF BRUTES.
THE REFORMED PRACTICE.
CREED OF THE REFORMERS.
TRUE PRINCIPLES.
INFLAMMATION.
REMARKS,
NATURE, TREATMENT, AND CAUSES OF DISEASE IN CATTLE.
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA.
LOCKED-JAW.
INFLAMMATORY DISEASES.
JAUNDICE, OR YELLOWS.
DISEASES OF THE MUCOUS SURFACE.
DISEASE OF THE EAR
SEROUS MEMBRANES.
HOOVE, OR "BLASTING."
JOINT MURRAIN.
BLACK QUARTER.
OPEN JOINT.
SWELLINGS OF JOINTS.
SPRAIN OF THE FETLOCK.
STRAIN OF THE HIP.
FOUL IN THE FOOT.
RED WATER.
BLACK WATER.
THICK URINE.
RHEUMATISM.
BLAIN.
THRUSH.
BLACK TONGUE.
BRONCHITIS.
INFLAMMATION OF GLANDS.
LOSS OF CUD.
COLIC.
SPASMODIC COLIC.
FALLING DOWN OF THE FUNDAMENT.
CALVING.
EMBRYOTOMY.
FALLING OF THE CALF-BED, OR WOMB.
GARGET.
SORE TEATS.
FEVER.
HORN AIL IN CATTLE.
ABORTION IN COWS.
COW-POX.
MANGE.
HIDE-BOUND.
LICE.
SPAYING COWS.
SHEEP.
PRELIMINARY REMARKS.
STAGGERS.
FOOT ROT.
ROT.
EPILEPSY.
RED WATER.
LOSS OF APPETITE.
FOUNDERING, (RHEUMATISM)
TICKS.
SCAB, OR ITCH.
DIARRHŒA.
DYSENTERY.
CONSTIPATION, OR STRETCHES.
SCOURS.
DIZZINESS.
JAUNDICE.
INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS.
WORMS.
DISEASES OF THE STOMACH FROM EATING POISONOUS PLANTS.
SORE NIPPLES.
FRACTURES.
COMMON CATARRH AND EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA.
CASTRATING LAMBS.
NATURE OF SHEEP.
THE RAM.
LEAPING.
ARGYLESHIRE BREEDERS.
FATTENING SHEEP.
IMPROVEMENT IN SHEEP.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT BREEDS OF SHEEP.
SWINE.
PRELIMINARY REMARKS.
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE HOG.
GENERALITIES.
GENERAL DEBILITY, OR EMACIATION.
EPILEPSY, OR FITS.
RHEUMATISM.
MEASLES.
OPHTHALMIA.
VERMIN.
RED ERUPTION.
DROPSY.
CATARRH.
COLIC.
DIARRHŒA.
FRENZY.
JAUNDICE.
SORENESS OF THE FEET.
SPAYING.
VARIOUS BREEDS OF SWINE.
BOARS AND SOWS FOR BREEDING.
REARING PIGS.
FATTENING HOGS.
METHOD OF CURING SWINE'S FLESH.
APPENDIX.
ON THE ACTION OF MEDICINES.
CLYSTERS.
INFUSIONS.
ANTISPASMODICS.
FOMENTATIONS.
MUCILAGES.
WASHES.
PHYSIC FOR CATTLE.
POULTICES.
STYPTICS, TO ARREST BLEEDING.
ABSORBENTS.
VETERINARY MATERIA MEDICA,
GENERAL REMARKS ON MEDICINES.
PROPERTIES OF PLANTS.
POTATO.
TREATMENT OF DISEASE IN DOGS
PRELIMINARY REMARKS.
DISTEMPER.
FITS.
WORMS.
MANGE.
INTERNAL ABSCESS OF THE EAR.
ULCERATION OF THE EAR.
INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS.
INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER.
ASTHMA.
PILES.
DROPSY.
SORE THROAT.
SORE EARS.
SORE FEET.
WOUNDS.
SPRAINS.
SCALDS.
OPHTHALMIA.
WEAK EYES.
FLEAS AND VERMIN.
HYDROPHOBIA.
BONE DISORDER IN COWS.