Manual of veterinary homeopathy : $b comprising diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, dogs and poultry and their homeopathic treatmentHumphreys, F. (Frederick)
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Manual of veterinary homeopathy : $b comprising diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, dogs and poultry and their homeopathic treatment
Humphreys, F. (Frederick)
Homeopathic veterinary medicine
Not among the least recommendations for the use of my Homeopathic
Remedies, is the ease and facility with which they may be administered.
No tying, struggling, or choking are necessary. The animal should be
approached quietly, usually on the OFF SIDE if the Medicator is to be
used, and medicine placed, if possible, upon the tongue, well
back—thence it is absorbed, and acts at once through the medium of the
nervous system. The simplest medium of doing this is best. For this
purpose the use of the Medicator is best—a small glass instrument
invented by me. It is about five inches in length, made of firm, heavy
glass tubing (_see 4th cover page_), the lower third bent so as to
readily enter the lips. The upper end is funnel-shaped the size of the
end of the finger, and covered with an air-tight rubber cap, so as to
form an air receiver. The Medicator, taken in the right hand, with the
forefinger upon the top or rubber valve, is introduced into the proper
vial, and pressing slightly upon the valve the air is exhausted, and on
removing the finger the fluid is forced up into the tube sufficient for
a dose. A little experience will enable one to take up five, ten or more
drops as may be required. The Medicator thus charged with the dose, can,
at the convenient moment, be inserted just within the lips of the
animal’s mouth, the farther back upon the tongue the better, when a
slight pressure upon the top of tube injects contents, and medicine is
given.
THE MEDICATOR should be held upright; never turned down or held
horizontally; as the air is thus introduced and the medicine may drop
out. Held upright until it is quietly inserted between the lips of the
animal, no such difficulty occurs. Nor is it necessary to push the tube
far enough into the mouth to expose it to the danger of being broken or
crushed between the teeth. The moment fluid from tube comes upon the
tongue the animal will open its mouth, and in an instant the medicine is
injected upon the tongue or in the mouth, and the operation is finished.
In other cases the tongue may be gently hooked out of the mouth with the
finger, and the medicine may be dropped or turned upon it. Horses are
fond of sugar, and the medicine may be dropped upon a small lump, and
fed from hand. After a few times they will call for their sugar when the
owner comes into the stable, at the proper time. With cattle or sheep,
raise the head a little and inject the medicine with the medicator, or
pull the tongue out on one side, and drop or eject the medicine upon it.
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