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
The pulse now rises to one hundred and fifteen or twenty strokes in a
minute. The pulse and the eruption will give the form and character of
the disease. The eruption generally commences with red patches, which
spread and unite till they cover the whole body. The eruption appears
first on the face and neck, then on the legs, and the redness is greatest
about the loins and bending of the joints, and on the hands and ends of
the fingers. There is however not a perfect regularity in the eruption
of Scarlet Fever, either in appearance or duration. In ordinary cases
the eruption remains out about four days, when the grain of the skin
begins to peel off and in a few days more it disappears. As the disease
progresses, the tonsils becomes specked with ash colored spots and
Ulceration follows. In favorable cases their slugs come off in eight or
ten days.
If the Patient does not die by the ninth day, he will generally get
well under proper management, though it may be three weeks, in some
cases before he recovers. When this disease terminates favorably, all
the symptoms generally yield, beginning about the fourth day after the
eruption appears. The patient is more liable to relapse in this disease
than any other, and caution should be used to prevent a relapse. Parents
would do well to watch its first appearance and keep their children from
its influence as much as possible using preventatives, such as keeping a
tar plaster around the neck, keeping gum camphor, a little asafœtida and
a small piece of garlic around the neck--this should be put into a small
muslin bag and hung around the neck. Let the children eat small pieces
of garlic during the day. These are considered preventatives by the
Medical Faculty.
TREATMENT--Give mild purgatives, such as Oil, to keep the bowels open.
Drink plentifully of balm tea, if this cannot be had, use Sage, Hysop,
Saffron Blossom, or Dittany. This will bring out the eruption and keep
it out full. If this can be accomplished, the danger will be very much
lessened. This fact should be kept in view in all eruptive diseases. Keep
a Tar Plaster around the neck; add to the tar a small portion of Spirits
of Turpentine, keep this on for some time, renewing, adding turpentine
enough to cause the skin to red. If the patient be not very careful when
he gets out, he will take cold, and the glands of the neck will swell
and suppurate and the ear will run, and if great attention be not paid,
deafness will probably be the result.
They must be kept clean and Laudanum and Sweet Oil put into them every
day till they get well.
6 REASONS FOR PLANTING AN ORCHARD.
First, would you leave an inheritance to your children, plant an orchard.
No other investment of money and labor will in the long run pay so well.
Second, would you make home pleasant, the abode of the social virtues,
plant an orchard. Nothing better promotes among neighbors a feeling of
kindness and good will, than a treat of good fruit often repeated.
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