Title: The American Reformed Cattle Doctor
Author: George H. Dadd
Release date: November 12, 2011 [eBook #37997]
Language: English
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| 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 | |
| Diarrhœa, (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 | |
| Diarrhœa, | 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 | |
| Diarrhœa, | 268 | |
| Frenzy, | 268 | |
| Jaundice, | 269 | |
| Soreness of the Feet, | 269 | |
| Spaying, | 270 | |
| Various Breeds of Swine, | 271 | |
| Berkshire Breed, | 271 | |
| Hamphire 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 | |
| Sore Ears, | 332 | |
| Sore Feet, | 333 | |
| Wounds, | 333 | |
| Sprains, | 333 | |
| Scalds, | 334 | |
| Ophthalmia, | 334 | |
| Weak Eyes, | 335 | |
| Fleas and Vermin, | 335 | |
| Hydrophobia, | 335 | |
| MALIGNANT MILK SICKNESS of the Western States, or Contgious Typhus, | 339 | |
| BONE DISORDER IN COWS, | 351 | |