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
Hogs usually, when sick, lie quietly upon the side, and medicine may
hence be injected into the mouth with Medicator, or be given in a
spoonful of sweet milk, poured in between the jaws, or given them to
drink. Care must be taken in giving fluid to hogs, not to forcibly raise
the head, as they are easily strangled—even to death. Dogs may have the
medicine in a little sweet milk, or it may be even turned in through the
nose. Yet the Medicator is an improvement upon all these plans, as it
takes up and discharges the proper dose at once.
N. B.—Take off the rubber cap, and cleanse the Medicator when using it
for different medicines.
Housing and Care of Sick Animals
When an animal shows signs of illness, it should be immediately cared
for. The horse, unless in cases of very slight Colic, or other ailment,
when the medicine be given at once, and his work continued, should be
placed in a roomy, convenient and warm stall, well littered, with plenty
of dry bedding, and well blanketed, unless in very warm weather. Cattle,
Sheep and Hogs, as soon as it is noticed that they are sick, should be
separated from the herd or flock, and placed in comfortable, well
littered and especially dry apartments. This is necessary not only to
prevent disease spreading to other stock on the farm, but for the
convenience of nursing them, giving them medicines, and also to place
them in the very best position for a cure. Often a little timely care
and nursing will save and restore an animal, which, if permitted to run
with the stock, and take its chance, would unquestionably be lost. A
sick animal as truly needs attention as a sick child. Not always will
mere nursing restore a sick animal, but it always places it in the best
possible condition to effect a cure, and without it the best medical
treatment will often be fruitless.
Diet of Sick Animals
In general, when animals are seriously ill, they are without appetite,
and will take little or no food—nature thus indicating the propriety of
abstinence. But in all cases the food given or allowed should be quite
limited in quantity—one-half, one-third or fourth of the usual quantity,
and only that which is nourishing, easily digested, and generally
relaxing. With these general restrictions, the usual kinds of food may
be permitted, except in the case of dogs, where _only stale bread and
milk_ should be allowed in urgent cases, and but little or no meat, and
no salted or spiced food in any case. After the more urgent symptoms of
disease have passed over, and the animal is recovering, we should be
careful and not give full feed, as a relapse may thus easily be
provoked, and prove very stubborn and dangerous.
At least half an hour or an hour should intervene after taking a dose of
medicine before the animal should be fed as the system is more
susceptible then than at any other time.
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