The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tablesAdams, Samuel, servant
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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables
Adams, Samuel, servant
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When the wounded part begins to discharge a whitish, thick matter,
and is observed to fill up, the general treatment and dressings to
the sore, now mentioned, should be continued; and in the course of
the cure, the animal, when free of fever, may be allowed better
provision, and may take gentle exercise. If the animal be feeble,
from the loss of blood originally, or from the long continuance of
a feverish state produced by the inflammation attending the wound,
or from weakness arising from confinement, or connected with its
constitution naturally; and if the wound appear to be in a stationary
state, very pale and flabby on its edges, with a thin discharge,
then better food may be given to it; and if still no change should
be observed, with the better food, the wound may be treated somewhat
differently from what has been already advised. The ointment may be
made more stimulant, by adding to it some resin and less bees’ wax,
or what would be still more stimulant, some common turpentine; for it
is only in very rare cases that oil of turpentine can be requisite.
The effects of an alteration in the mode of treatment should be
particularly remarked, and stimulants should be laid aside, continued
or increased, according as may be judged proper. Before changing
the dressings applied to the wound, or before rendering them more
stimulant and active by using heating applications, the effect of
closer bandaging may be tried; for sometimes by keeping the parts a
little more firmly together, the cure is promoted.
_Food and Regimen._
In the case of severe wounds, attention should be paid to the
condition of the animal in other respects. There being always when
such happen, a tendency to violent inflammation and fever, that may
end fatally, means should be employed to moderate both. The apartment
should be cool and airy, and so quiet that the animal should not
be disturbed; the drink should not be warm, but rather cold, and
given freely, though not in too large quantities at a time; the food
should be sparingly given and of a poorer quality than usual, and
should be rather succulent and laxative, than dry or apt to produce
costiveness; bleeding may be employed either generally from a vein,
or, in some cases, when it can be done, by cupping from the injured
part, as in the case of a bruise (though this last will be seldom
requisite or found convenient,) and it may be done more than once or
twice, as may seem proper; laxative medicines also ought to be given
and repeated, as there may be occasion.
BLEEDING IN GENERAL.
Bleeding is often the most useful and efficacious means of curing
diseases in horses, &c. In inflammatory affections, it is generally
the first remedy resorted to, and its immediate salutary effects are
often surprising.
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