The Farmer's Own Book: A treatise on the numerous diseases of the horse: with an explanation of their symptoms, and the course of treatment to be pursued; also a treatise on the diseases of horned cattleKoogle, J. D.
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The Farmer's Own Book: A treatise on the numerous diseases of the horse: with an explanation of their symptoms, and the course of treatment to be pursued; also a treatise on the diseases of horned cattle
If you want sweet cider the year round, turn to page 165 and follow
directions, and you will have it; if you want honey without bees, turn to
page 161 and you can have it; if you have the rheumatism and want to be
cured, turn to pages 152, 153, 154 and 155; if you want a liniment that
cannot be surpassed and is easily made, turn to page 157 and you will
see how to make it. You should add double the quantity of laudanum and
use the spirits of saltpetre--which is made by pouring alcohol over the
saltpetre, the same as the camphor.
If you want to read an interesting subject, turn to page 131 and read
the whole subject and you will have it in truth; if you want the best
medicine in the world for colic, turn to pages 128 and 129. I will here
state that the Pipsisseway is the best for colic, it has a whitish
stripe running through the centre of the leaf. The Wintergreen has not
this whitish stripe through the centre; both of them keep green the
year round. The Wintergreen is considered very excellent for colds and
coughs, it is used as a tea for coughs. If you want an eye water that
will relieve inflamed eyes, turn to page 194; this is truly valuable and
is a harmless application, yet easily made, costing but 6¼ cents.
I have here named some of the leading articles, which will prove to be
very valuable to all that have occasion to make use of them. Try them and
you will be convinced.
SCARLET FEVER.
I will here give to the reader the symptoms of Scarlet Fever. This
disease has slain its thousands where the monster disease, Cholera has
slain its hundreds, and it becomes every parent to feel it his duty to
be careful when the disease is in the neighborhood. It is evident that
the disease is contagious, in this form it can be taken by inhaling the
breath from one that has it, and it is satisfactorily proven that it can
be carried in woollen goods from one family to another.
SYMPTOMS:--This disease commences with chilliness, dullness of the head
and prostration of strength, according to the violence of the attack.
There is sometimes nausea and vomiting, and the surface soon becomes
florid and hot.
The throat is generally inflamed and the same appearance extends to the
tongue, which is sometimes of a very deep scarlet, tinged with blue. If
the symptoms are increased, it is called Scarlet Fever in a malignant
form, the symptoms are very violent and the patient becomes pale and
faint, the heart palpitates, the Fever continues to rise higher and
higher, there is great danger.
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