Produced by Barbara Kosker, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain works at the University of Michigan\'s Making of America collection.) [Illustration: A West Highland Ox The Property of Mr. Elliott of East Ham Essex.] THE AMERICAN REFORMED CATTLE DOCTOR; CONTAINING THE NECESSARY INFORMATION FOR PRESERVING THE HEALTH AND CURING THE DISEASES OF OXEN, COWS, SHEEP, AND SWINE, WITH A GREAT VARIETY OF ORIGINAL RECIPES, AND VALUABLE INFORMATION IN REFERENCE TO FARM AND DAIRY MANAGEMENT; WHEREBY EVERY MAN CAN BE HIS OWN CATTLE DOCTOR. THE PRINCIPLES TAUGHT IN THIS WORK ARE, THAT ALL MEDICATION SHALL BE SUBSERVIENT TO NATURE; THAT ALL MEDICINAL AGENTS MUST BE SANATIVE IN THEIR OPERATION, AND ADMINISTERED WITH A VIEW OF AIDING THE VITAL POWERS, INSTEAD OF DEPRESSING, AS HERETOFORE, WITH THE LANCET AND POISON. BY G. H. DADD, M. D., VETERINARY PRACTITIONER, AUTHOR OF "ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HORSE." BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY, 110 WASHINGTON STREET. 1851. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by G. H. DADD, M. D., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION, 9 CATTLE.