The New-England farriery, or, A compendium of farrier : in four parts, wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are incident, are treated, with medical and surgical observations thereon ... : intended for the use of private gentlemen and farmers / by Paul Jewett.

  • Jewett, Paul.
Date:
1806
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Credit: The New-England farriery, or, A compendium of farrier : in four parts, wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are incident, are treated, with medical and surgical observations thereon ... : intended for the use of private gentlemen and farmers / by Paul Jewett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t8 fomenting baths. When the fwelling be. conies fcft, and the matter fluctuating, place a ceton in the moft, depending part, to dif- charge the humour. Fumigate his head twice a day, with fulphur and camphire mix- ed with rye pafte, dried, and burnt under his nofe ; likewife fcraps of old leather— and occafionally blow fnufFup his nofe. If the difcharge of matter becomes thick, white tfid miid, you may foon expecl: a cure. Frenzy or Staggers. This difeafe is known by a hanging down of the head, watryeyes, and reclining of the body. From the general caufeof this difeafe, er the method of cure. Theexertions are dimir,ifhed, confequently a coftivenefe ar.;i induration of the contents of the intef- ♦iner, feems th^ caufe. The horfe mufr. be bled the Grir. J^y, in the neck, the third day in the mouth ; give him the firft day, feur quarts of herb dtink, made of mallows and flax feed, to lubricate his bowels, and prepare for a dofe of aioes j one ounce and a half of which is to be given him the fecon i day to purge him. The third day bleed itt