A treatise on the disorders incident to horned cattle, comprising a description of their symptoms, and the most rational methods of cure ... : To which are added receipts for curing the gripes, staggers, and worms in horses ; and an appendix containing instructions for the extracting of calves / by J. Downing.

  • Downing, J. (Joseph)
Date:
1797
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Credit: A treatise on the disorders incident to horned cattle, comprising a description of their symptoms, and the most rational methods of cure ... : To which are added receipts for curing the gripes, staggers, and worms in horses ; and an appendix containing instructions for the extracting of calves / by J. Downing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ ■■ f The danger of the difeafe, and difficulty of cure, are generally to be eftimated by the degree of the fymptoms. The common figns of this diforder are as follows, an inability to Hand, ftretching out the legs, violent convulfions, cold extremities, an intermitting pulfe, little or nothing evacuated from the■ calf bag, with many other obvious fymptoms. In cafes fo evidently dangerous fpeedy re- medies muft be applied, or the attempt to cure will be to little or no purpofe. Give the following medicine: Take Nitre in powder, two ounces, oil of vi- triol, one tea-fpoonful, rub the nitre and oil of vitriol together in an iron or mar- ble mortar, then add, valerian in powder, one ounce and a half, Virginian fnake- root in powder, one ounce.