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[Illustration: A West Highland Ox

The Property of Mr. Elliott of East Ham Essex.]




  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
    Diarrhoea, (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 Tong