Stock keeping for amateurs : a manual on the varieties, breeding, and management of pigs, sheep, horses, cows, oxen, asses, mules, and goats, and the treatment of their diseases designed for the use of young farmers and amateurs / by W.H. Ablett.

  • Ablett, William H.
Date:
[1881]
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Credit: Stock keeping for amateurs : a manual on the varieties, breeding, and management of pigs, sheep, horses, cows, oxen, asses, mules, and goats, and the treatment of their diseases designed for the use of young farmers and amateurs / by W.H. Ablett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    These quantities will be sufficient for about eight doses, one dose to be administered twice a day while the disorder continues. The feeces should be examined, and if found to be slimy a dose of salts should be administered. Colic, or Spasm of the Bowels.—This is not a very common disorder, the symptoms being those of sudden and violent pain, which are evidenced by the manner of the animal. Tincture of opium, and spirit of nitrous ether combined—double the quantity of the latter to one part of the former—should be administered in doses according to the size of the animal, commencing with one drachm of tincture of opium to two of spirit of nitrous ether, in the case of a small pig; up to eight drachms of the former and sixteen of the latter in that of animals of the largest size, given in warm water. If relief is not obtained from this treatment, bleeding is resorted to. Inflammation of the Bowels.—Inflammation of the bowels is most frequently produced by unwholesome food, and is much more common than colic, there being two phases of the disorder —acute and sub-acute. In acute inflammation there is con- siderable pain, as in colic, but without intermission, accompanied with a good deal of fever and loss of appetite. In sub-acute inflammation the symptoms are of a milder character. Bleeding is usually resorted to for this disease, the vein on the inside of the foreleg being opened, and a flow of blood allowed, in proportion to the size of the animal, from two ounces to two pounds. If the vein in the inside of the foreleg cannot conveniently be opened, the tail may be cut; but as the object is to ensure a copious flow of blood, a few drops merely will not be sufficient. Purgatives of an oily nature, such as linseed oil, should also be administered to relax the bowels. If constipation prevails, an injection should be used, and in addition a warm bath will be found beneficial, which, in the case of small pigs, can be easily given. In the milder form, from two to five grains each of calomel and opium will be found efficacious. In constipation of the bowels, where there is not inflammation,