Observations on the disease which has lately been so destructive to sheep, called bane or coath : particularising the causes, and minutely describing the modes of effecting its cure : and pointing out those means which ought to be adopted to prevent its recurrence / by John Davey.

  • Davey, John
Date:
1830
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Credit: Observations on the disease which has lately been so destructive to sheep, called bane or coath : particularising the causes, and minutely describing the modes of effecting its cure : and pointing out those means which ought to be adopted to prevent its recurrence / by John Davey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    than this will do; and in matters of thisi^description it is impossible for him to have a presiding genius on the spot at all occasions. He must be his own direetor; and when the modes of investigation and comprehension are pointed out, with such a monitor he will have no Herculean labour to perform. To publish a treatise for all the diseases incident to the sheep, would indeed be beneath cjantempt, and would terminate, as all other empirical efforts have done, viz. in disappointment* Besides, it would be a libel on the understandings of a body of men, who only require a guide to direct them in the pursuit of that knowledge which the circumstances of the case render indispensible; and who want no further stimulus to excite their ardour than has unfortunately been given by the loss of so much property. In our medical prescriptions, economy has not been lost sight of. When the articles are somewhat expensive, we have taken care to be satisfied they are not of an equivocal character. And in order to furnish the farmer with the probable amount of expense, an estimate of the cost of the various medicines is appended; the result of which will show, that a stock sufficient for a considerable flock is comparatively trifling. We of course suppose him to furnish himself with some grain scales, and purchase the articles in quantity : s, d, 2 ounces of calomel will cost 1 6 making 192 common doses. 4oz. of antimonial powder, 2 6 384 ditto 4 oz. of aloes 2 0 .. 192 ditto 1 fb. nitre 0 10 .. 144 ditto I lb. diluted sulphuric acid 0 4 i lb. sulphate of iron .. 0 G making together 7s. 8d., which will furnish him with a stock, greater than he may have occasion to use for a long time. Of course the farmer will see the necessity of keeping each article dry, in a separate bottle, and well stopped, and legibly labelled on the outside, with the precaution of having the word Poison written under each to prevent accident. All the bottles may be lodged in a snug -box, fitted up as a medicine chest, which should be always kept locked, and safely deposited in some dry situation in the house. His grain scales, a Dutch tile, and a palette knife to mix his medicines, which will com- plete his stock. If there should appear to be acy occasijon for more rigorous
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