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PREFACE to the SEVENTH ENGLISH
EDITION.
SINCE the publication of the last edition of this work, a kind of revolution has taken place in Cattle Medicine. Veterinary practitioners had been strangely forgetful of the proper extent of their professional duty, and the treatment of the diseases of cattle had, with few exceptions, (but among which we may justly rank the original
author of " Every Man his own Cattle Doctor,") remained in the hands of the uneducated and the ignorant. It has now, however, begun to be understood that all domesticated animals are the legitimate objects of the veterinarian's care; and veterinary surgeons of no mean eminence do not think it a degradation to practise on the diseases of cattle, and sheep, and dogs, and swine. Public lectures on these subjects are at length delivered, in the University of London, and at Edinburgh, and a
knowledge of this branch of veterinary medicine has wonderfully increased.
Under such circumstances the proprietors of this work have endeavoured to discharge their duty to the public. A new edition being required, they have obtained the assistance of an eminent practitioner of both horse and cattle medicine, who, while he has retained all that was useful in the former edition (and there was a great deal that was truly valuable, and particularly with regard to the symptoms of diseases), has endeavoured to keep pace with the progress of the art. The book is in a manner
re-written; and the additions on the diseases of swine, now for the first time thrown into a regular and scientific form, in the English language, will be found peculiarly valuable.
June, 1832.
PREFACE to the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
"There are two great sources of the mortality of cattle and sheep, and the loss of agricultural property; and it is difficult to say which is the worst, — the ignorance and obstinacy of the servant and the cow-leech, or the ignorance and supineness of the owner."
Youatt;
THE beneficence of an all-wise Providence in so organizing man as to secure him dominion over animals of inferior physical construction, imposes on him the obligation to exercise that eminent advantage in a spirit of mercy, and in mitigation of the pains and disorders of the brute creation ; and both the obligation and the necessity to do so, are enhanced by the consideration, that in being domesticated and made subservient to our uses, animals lose in a great measure that instinct which enables them to distinguish what is noxious from that which is wholesome, and become, as does the human race in the process of civilization,
liable to numerous and complicated diseases to which they are comparatively strangers when roaming in the simple habits and unrestrained freedom of nature.
Assuredly, there is no great charity in the creed which would
teach that of all the variety of God's creation that make up his
animal kingdom, some of them displaying high culture and fine
affections of mind and heart, he should care alone for the present
and future happiness of Man!
" Know Nature's children all divide her care;
The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear;
While man exclaims, 'See all things for my use!'
'See man for mine,' replies a pampered goose:
And just as short of reason must he fall
Who thinks all made for one, not one for all."
To the sparseness of our agricultural population, we may probably attribute, in a great measure, the absence of a class of persons, well supported in Europe, who profess to treat scientifically, the diseases of domestic animals. There, the study of comparative anatomy has served to illustrate and improve the science of medicine. More especially
has it subservient to that end in past ages of superstition, when the dissection of the human body was regarded as sacrilegious. The discovery, says Doctor Rush, of the salivary glands in an ox—of the fallopian tubes in an ewe—of the thoracic duct in a horse—of the lacteals in a kid—and of the pancreas in a turkey, led to the discovery of the same parts in the human body; and it is well known that the circulation of the blood and of the peristaltic motion of the bowels, in man, were first suggested by experiments and observations on animals of the lower order. Their physical structure and complaints have, in fact, for years past, been the subject of regular lectures by the ablest Professors in the Universities of London and Edinburgh; and hence it is, that there, improvements in the
veterinary have kept pace with the progress of other useful arts, until it has reached, in practice, a high degree of certainty, and of honour as an intellectual profession. Under such auspices, and assurances of authority and excellence, has this ninth edition of "Clayter's every man his own Cattle Doctor" been published in England —compounded, not by ignorant cow-leeches, and made up of nostrums to be administered without judgment or discretion, but embodying the mature results of careful and scientific research.
In the hands of the American Editor, the work now presented has undergone no alteration of matter or arrangement. He has not presumed to disturb what he could not hope to amend ; but some additions have been made in the confident hope of rendering this edition more acceptable by making it more useful to the American reader. These additions will be found to consist of essays and illustrations intended to diffuse such information on the general subject, as may well be coveted by every Gentleman Farmer, and to lead to important practical reforms. He has endeavoured particularly to impress his own persuasion, that a more general use of oxen in place of horses, would be highly expedient and economical, accompanying his reflections on this topic with ample instructions as to breeding, breaking, and gearing them.
Deeming familiarity with the names of every part of the animal frame essential to an intelligent treatment of accidental injuries or disorders to which it is constantly exposed, anatomical delineations have, for that purpose, been introduced, which are not given in the English work. For the same purpose, and illustrated in like manner, certain instruments and contrivances there only referred to, as necessary in the administration of relief in certain dangerous cases of common occurrence, will be found in this American edition—viz: the
stilet probang, for relieving cattle that are choked, and Read's Patent Veterinary Syringe or Stomach Pump, to be used for the extraction of gas, when cattle get
hoven, as often happens, by over-feeding on green and wet clover, or other deleterious substances.
To the medical part of the work in the shape of notes, some recipes have been appended, consisting of elements more simple or more easily procured than those prescribed in the text ; but only such have been thus inserted as seemed to be either innocent in themselves, or recommended on alleged experience and respectable authority.
To say nothing of the duty which common humanity enjoins on every one, to be prepared with common medicines, and directions for the use of them, which may enable him to extend prompt relief to speechless suffering; on the sordid score of self interest alone, the most calculating, it may be supposed, will not hesitate to provide himself with a book which in teaching him to be his "Own Cattle Doctor," may enable him to save the life even of the meanest animal on his estate. In a word, the want of some such work would be an obvious defect in every farmer's library, however small it may be, and this one is of the highest and most recent authority in a century where the subjects of which it treats have been most carefully investigated and are best understood. To have been revised and sanctioned by Mr. Youatt, as it is believed to have been, is of itself a sufficient title to public confidence.
J.S.S.
Washington, April, 1844
CONTENTS.
CATTLE. Introduction — Anatomy and Physiology of Neat Cattle Number of Neat Cattle in each of the United States, according to the census of 1S40 Skeleton of the Ox, and Explanations Chapter I. Inlammation Chapter II. Bleeding, its utility — and in what cases necescessary Chapter III. On Physic Chapter IV. On Setoning Chapter V. Cold—Cough—Hoose Chapter VI. Inflammation of the Lungs Chapter VII. Rheumatism, or Joint Fellon Chapter VIII. Inflammation of the Liver Chapter IX. The Yellows, or Jaundice Chapter X. Inflammation of the Brain Chapter XI. Inflammation of the Bowels, with Costiveness Chapter XII. Diarrhea, or Purging Chapter XIII. Dysentery, Slimy Flux, or Scouring Chapter XIV. Red-water Chapter XV. Garget, or the Downfall in the Udder of Cows Chapter XVI. Treatment of the Cow, before and during Calving Chapter XVII. The Milk Fever, or the Drop Chapter XVIII. The Brain, etc. Chapter XIX. The Blood, Blood-striking, Black-leg, Quarter Evil, or Black-quarter Chapter XX. Murrain, or Pestilential Fever Chapter XXI. The Epedemic of 1840 and 1841 Chapter XXII. Inflammation of the Bladder Chapter XXIII. Stone in the Urinary Passages, or Bladder Chapter XXIV. Diseases of the Eye Chapter XXV. The Hoove, Hoven, or Blown Chapter XXVI. Choking Chapter XXVII. Locked Jaw Chapter XXVIII. Poisons Chapter XXIX. Wounds Chapter XXX. Strains and Bruises Chapter XXXI. Cancerous Ulcers Chapter XXXII. Angle Berries Chapter XXXIII. The Foul in the Foot Chapter XXXIV. To Dry a Cow of her Milk Chapter XXXV. The Mange Chapter XXXVI. To produce Bulling in the Cow, and Treatment of Bull-burnt Chapter XXXVII. The Cow-pox Chapter XXXVIII Clue-bound — Fardel-bound Chapter XXXIX. Rabies—Hydrophobia Chapter XL. The Diseases incident to Young Calves Postscript to the Diseases of Cattle, by J. S. Skinner, Esq. Essay on the advantages of the Use of Oxen in the Husbandry of the United States, by J. S. Skinner, Esq. SHEEP. Sheep Husbandry — Diseases of Sheep, by J. S. Skinner, Esq. On the Diseases of Sheep Sect. I. The Lambing Season Sect. II. The Diseases of Young Lambs Sect. III. Red-water Sect. IV. The Blood Sect. V. Sturdy, Giddiness, or Water in the Head Sect. VI. Inflammation of the Brain Sect. VII. Cold—Inflammation of the Lungs—Influenza Sect. VIII. Blown, or Blast Sect. IX. The Yellows, or Jaundice Sect. X. The Rot Sect. XI. The Foot Rot Sect. XII. The Scab Sect. XIII. Lice, Ticks, and Fleas Sect. XIV. Sore Heads Sect. XV. Diarrhoea, or Purging Sect. XVI. Indigestion and Debility Sect. XVII. Blindness Sect. XVIII. Fractures, Wounds and Bites Sect. XIX. General Cautions SWINE. On the Diseases of Swine Inflammation of the Lungs Apoplexy and Inflammation of the Brain Measles Mange Sore Ears Pigging Quinsy Costiveness Inflammation of the Bowels
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