Diseases of Horses and Cattle; Written Especially for the Farmer, Stockman and Veterinary Student (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. 1895 Excerpt: ...and then remove it to a poor, short pasture and feed some dry food, such as hay. After the grass has grown and becomes harder there will be no danger of allowing the animal to remain in it all day. Treatment: Open the swellings with a knife and inject carbolic acid half an ounce, water one quart, or inject a lotion of this kind all around the swelling with a hypodermic syringe. Give one ounce each of tincture chloride of iron, ginger, and gentian at a dose three times a day in half a pint of water; this dose is for yearlings. Half this quantity for a calf six months old. Remove all the well ones and give a dose of Epsom salts, four ounces for a calf, half a pound for a yearling, one pound for a two-year-old, and one and one-half for a cow. Feed on dry food or turn into a poor pasture, and if this is done there will be no further trouble. Pyemia (Blood Poisoning).--Septicemia pus getting into the blood is best treated by tincture chloride of iron, gentian, and ginger, one ounce each three times a day, and feeding good food. CHAPTER XVI. RHEUMATISM. This is a disease characterized by more or less pain and swelling of the joints, although in some cases no swelling appears. There is a tendency to shift from one part to another; that is, a horse may be lame in one leg for a day or two, then the lameness shifts to the other, and so on; or the soreness may remain for months in one place. I have seen cases where one hind leg and one fore leg were affected at the same time. There is a great difference of opinion as to the nature of this disease. It is described to be a specific acute fever caused by some morbid material in the system, having a special tendency to affect the coverings of muscles and tendons, causing great pain and lameness, and I have no doubt but su...