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A General Treatise on Cattle, the Ox, the Sheep, and the Swine; Comprehending Their Breeding, Management, Improvement, and Diseases
A General Treatise on Cattle the Ox the Sheep and the Swine Comprehending Their Breeding Management Improvement and Diseases Author:John Lawrence General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1809 Original Publisher: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones Subjects: Cattle Sheep Swine Domestic animals Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books ed... more »ition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: OXEN, COWS, AND CALVES. Fkvers. The fevers of these animals, whether original or symptomatic, correspond to a sufficient degree of exactness, for medical purposes, with those of the same type in the human species. Cattle are, according to common observation, subject to mild and inflammatory fever, from over-exertion in labour, or from the stimulus of affright, in being hunted and harassed about, beyond their powers: also to catarrhal, influenza!, pneumonic and puerperal fever; to contagious fever or Murrain, a fever attended with buboes, and bearing a considerable similitude, in cause and effects, to the plague in the human species. The diseases of the males of the species, are generally of the sthenic, or robust kind, but the females, from the constant exhaustion of milking, not unusually with very poor and innutritions provender, are subject to atonic disease, and I have often remarked the appearance of perfect hysteric irritability in cows. The books of two of the cattle doctors to which I have before adverted, set out- with a wonderful account of the " frenzy, or inflammation of the brain, commonly called the Sough." A strange distinction is made between a " true frenzy and a symptomatic frenzy." The earliest writer (Topham) says, " I have known an inflammation fixed for some time in the jaws, there producing a roughness, mounting up in the licad; this often creates a mortal frenzy." It is curious that the Gargyse of the old writers, is the very reverse of this in its course, being " a swel...« less