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

  • Downing, J. (Joseph)
Date:
1813
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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, founded on long experience / by J. Downing ; to which are added, receipts for curing the gripes, staggers and worms, in horses ; and an appendix, containing instructions for the extracting of calves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    Cream of tartar, two ounces, Liquorice powder, two ounces. Mix these for two doses, one to be given in a quart of warm whey or thin gruel, and repeat- ed as occasion may require. This medicine moderates the acrid, incras- sates the thin and cools the hot boiling blood; it strengthens and corrugates the fibres, and closes up the mouth of the ruptured vessels; it allays extreme thirst, obtunds the acrimony of humours, thickens the too thin serum : and is a well suited medicine in hot constitutions; it opens obstructions, and promotes a regular discharge, puts an effectual stop to disorders arising from relaxed diseased vessels, allays their irritation, and restores their due tone. Or this: Take Bole armenic, two ounces, Red sanders, one ounce, Wood soot, one ounce. Then take one handful of herbs, of crane's bill, pounded well and soaked a few hours in three pints of butter-milk, strain out the herbs, and add to it two ounces of spirits of turpen- tine, and give it the beast.