A Pocket Manual of Hom Opathic Veterinary Medicine (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...and triumphantly supersedes the debilitating, injurious, and often fatal consequences of bleeding. In acute inflammatory affections, we strongly advise the owners of all domestic animals to spare the life's blood, and instead of bleeding, to have recourse to Aconitum, the beneficial effects of which will be found most rapid and astonishing. Bleeding, formerly regarded as an essential in almost every variety of disease, both in human beings and the inferior animals, has of late, happily fallen into disrepute. The writer can refer to many extensive owners of domestic animals, to whom he has introduced the Homoeopathic treatment, as to the astonishing and gratifying success of Aconitum, and other kindred remedies, in diseases of the severest kind. Under Homoeopathic treatment diseases are shorter in duration; and as soon as cured, the horse returns at once to his accustomed work, or the and sometimes with a little blood, which adheres to the borders of the nose like glue. Under the lower jaw, a painless, round, and generally firmly-adhering glandular swelling, of the size of a hen's egg, is observed; and if the discharge takes place from both nostrils, the swelling is seen on both sides. Ulcers of various sizes and shapes form on the mucus membrane of the nose; but they are sometimes so far removed from the orifices of the nostrils, that they cannot be seen, and their existence can only be known by an ichorous discharge from the nose, which will frequently be found mixed with shreds or mucus patches detached from the sores. These three conditions--a discharge of icnor from the nose, the swelling of the laryngeal glands, and more particularly the ulceration of the nasal mucus membrane, constitute the most marked signs of glanders. The disease may be considered ...