Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.Allen, Richard Lamb
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Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.
Allen, Richard Lamb
Domestic animals
We have no doubt this, like scab in sheep and itch in the human species,
will be found, on close investigation, to be caused by minute insects
located in the skin. Salt and water ought, in that case, to be a good
remedy.
Hollow Horn, or Horn Ail.
This is not unfrequently _hollow stomach_, and very often follows
stinted fare, hard usage, and exposure to cold. We have noticed this as
most prevalent among oxen that have done a severe winter's work.
_Symptoms._--Bloody urine; swollen udder; shaking the head; eyes and
head swollen; standing with the head against a fence or barn; eyes dull
and sunken, and horns cold.
_Remedies._--Bleed and physic, shelter and feed properly.
Take a half pint of good vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of salt, one
teaspoonful of pepper, and mix and pour into each ear, holding the head
on one side for two minutes.
Bore with a large gimlet on the under side of the horn, three or four
inches from the head; and if hollow, bore nearer the head and let out
all the matter, and syringe two or three times a day with salt and
water, or soap-suds, or salt and vinegar.
Spirits of turpentine rubbed in around the base of the horns, will
arrest the disease in its incipient stages.
Pour a spoonful of boiling hot brimstone into the cavity between the
horns.
Pour a teakettle of boiling water on the horns, holding so as to prevent
injury to the other parts.
Soot and pepper given internally are good.
Jaundice, or Yellows.
This is owing to gall-stones or calculi, which occasionally accumulate
in large numbers, and is sometimes owing to increased or altered quality
of the bile. It is manifested by the yellowness of the eye and skin, and
high color of the urine, and poor appetite.
_Remedies._--Bleed, and purge with Epsom salts.
If taken in season, 2 ounces of ground mustard may be mixed with a
liquid, and given twice a day.
Green food is a good preventive.
Mad Itch.
This disease exists in some of the Western states, and shows itself by
jerking of the head, and itching around the nose and base of the horns.
They will lick their sides and backs, and jerk and hiccup till they fill
themselves with wind; afterwards they froth at the mouth, and in 24
hours die raving mad.
_Remedy._--Give as much soot and salt as the animal will eat; soon
after, give ¾ or 1 lb. of brimstone or sulphur; and 8 hours after, as
many salts.
Bloody Murrain, or Red Water.
This disease first shows itself in a cough, then heaving of the flanks,
with bloody, black, and f[oe]tid evacuations, tenderness over the loins,
and coldness of the horns. Tumors and biles sometimes appear. The animal
holds down the head, moans, is restless, and staggers when walking.
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