Plain directions for the treatment of the common disorders to which horses, cattle, and sheep are subject, with general rules for their management / by Thomas P. Gostling.

  • Gostling, Thomas P.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1879?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Plain directions for the treatment of the common disorders to which horses, cattle, and sheep are subject, with general rules for their management / by Thomas P. Gostling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the urine passing away. Two or three doses of Gostling’s Shepherd’s Friend should be given to prevent her straining, and gruel twice or three times a day. The tape can be drawn out in three or four days. GOSTLING’S SPECIFIC FOR SCOURING X3ST SHIEIEIP -A-HSTIID XjJLDVCBS, (In Powders), in Boxes at Is., Is. 8d., and 3s. each.. It not only acts as an astringent, but as a febrifuge alkaline sedative, soothing the irritation produced by such continual purging, neutralizing any acid that may be in the stomach or bowels, inducing that quiet state of the system so essential to enable nature to restore herself, and it allays that disposition to fever and inflammation which so often not onl/ ends in the death of the Sheep, but also increases the contagious nature of the disease. When Diarrhoea is accompanied with Hoose, Husk, or Cough, arising from worms in the windpipe, then give one dose, and. add two teaspoonfuls of Spirit of Turpentine to each dose., Eight hours should elapse between each dose. Garget, Or Hard Swelling and Inflammation of the Udder. It is pro¬ duced either by cold or by the loss of a twin lamb, the livings lamb continuing to one side of the udder only, &c. Great care1 should be taken by the shepherd to induce the lamb to suck from both sides, and if he fail in getting the lamb to do this, then let him strip the full quarter of all its milk frequently. As soon as a Sheep is found suffering with Garget, give a dose: of Gostling’s Condition Powder, and rub the udder night and, morning with the following Ointment:— Larcl.4 oz. Spirit of Turpentine.A oz. Soft Soap . | oz. MIX. By far the greater number of Diseases in Sheep arise from imperfect indigestion. GOSTLING’S condition powdebs, (Price 2s. 9d. per Packet) Are very efficient in removing the causes and effects of Indiges¬ tion, and in reducing Fever and Inflammation ; it is therefore; strongly recommended that every Flockmaster should have: always at hand a supply of them, to be administered, at the: discretion of the shepherd, to any Sheep that may shew any