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Introduction, 9
CATTLE
Importance of supplying Cattle with pure Water, 15
Remarks on feeding Cattle, 17
The Barn and Feeding Byre, 21
Milking, 24
Knowledge of Agricultural and Animal Chemistry important to Farmers, 25
On Breeding, 30
The Bull, 34
Value of different breeds of Cows, 35
Method of preparing Rennet, as practised in England, 36
Making Cheese, 37
Gloucester Cheese, 38
Chester Cheese, 39
Stilton Cheese, 40
Dunlop Cheese, 41
Green Cheese, 42
Making Butter, 44
Washing Butter, 45
Coloring Butter, 46
Description of the Organs of Digestion in Cattle, 47
Respiration and Structure of the Lungs, 53
Circulation of the Blood, 54
The Heart viewed externally, 55
Remarks on Blood-letting, 58
Efforts of Nature to remove Disease, 67
Proverbs of the Veterinary Reformers, 70
An Inquiry concerning the Souls of Brutes, 72
The Reformed Practice—Synoptical View of the Prominent Systems of Medicine, 75
Creed of the Reformers, 79
True Principles, 80
Inflammation, 88
Remarks, showing that very little is known of the Nature and Treatment of Disease, 94
Nature, Treatment, and Causes of Disease in Cattle, 105
Pleuro-Pneumonia, 107
Locked-Jaw, 115
Inflammatory Diseases, 121
Inflammation of the Stomach, (Gastritis,) 121
Inflammation of the Lungs, (Pneumonia,) 122
Inflammation of the Bowels, (Enteritis.—Inflammation of the Fibro-Muscular Coat of the Intestines,) 124
Inflammation of the Peritoneal Coat of the Intestines, (Peritonitis,) 125
Inflammation of the Kidneys, (Nephritis,) 268
Frenzy, 268
Jaundice, 269
Soreness of the Feet, 269
Spaying, 270
Various Breeds of Swine, 271
Berkshire Breed, 271
Hamphire Breed, 271
Shropshire Breed, 272
Chinese Breed, 272
Boars and Sows for Breeding, 272
Rearing Pigs, 273
Fattening Hogs, 275
Method of Curing Swine's Flesh, 277
APPENDIX
On the Action of Medicines, 279
Clysters, 281
Forms of Clysters, 283
Infusions, 286
Antispasmodics, 287
Fomentations, 287
Mucilages, 289
Washes, 289
Physic for Cattle, 290
Mild Physic for Cattle, 291
Poultices, 292
Styptics, to arrest Bleeding, 296
Absorbents, 296
Forms of Absorbents, 297
VETERINARY MATERIA MEDICA, embracing a List of the various Remedies used by the Author of this work in the Practice of Medicine on Cattle, Sheep, and Swine, 299
General Remarks on Medicines, 312
Properties of Plants, 315
Potato, 316
TREATMENT OF DISEASE IN DOGS—Preliminary Remarks, 323
Distemper, 325
Fits, 326
Worms, 327
Mange, 328
Internal Abscess of the Ear, 329
Ulceration of the Ear, 329
Inflammation of the Bowels, 329
Inflammation of the Bladder, 330
Asthma, 331
Piles, 331
Dropsy, 332

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