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  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 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
  Diarrhoea,                                                 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
  Diarrhoea,                                                 268
  Frenzy,                                                    268
  Jaundice,                                                  269
  Soreness of the Feet,                                      269
  Spaying,                                                   270
  Various Breeds of Swine,                                   271
    Berkshire Breed,                                         271
    Hampshire 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
 