The uses of Elliman's embrocation for horses, dogs, birds, cattle.

  • Elliman, Sons & Co.
Date:
1904
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The uses of Elliman's embrocation for horses, dogs, birds, cattle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    where it grows for years without touching it, and then suddenly becoming possessed of the same idea, a number will eat thereof and die. Treatment.—Yew being a narcotic poison, the best treat- ment is to immediately administer a rousing stimulant and to follow it with a dose of linseed oil, as the properties of the yew seem to be somewhat masked by oil, and repeated doses help to clear the canal before more of the plant is digested. Stimulants in gruel at regular intervals offer the most hopeful plan of treatment. Prevention.—Have no yew trees. Cattle cannot well be kept from eating them, as their presence on your lands or your neighbours’ is sure to be forgotten, or a new man is employed to lop the overgrowth, and the branches fall into a field where cattle are kept. CARE OF CATTLE* The first step in civilization was made by the herdsmen, we are told, and we may add that the methods pursued by many are still very primitive. Between coddling and carelessness there is a happy mean. The cattle of these islands are the best, and all nations come to us to renew their blood-stock. The variations of temperature, though frequent, are seldom extreme, and this perhaps engenders carelessness on our part in the housing of cattle not intended for show, or belonging to such delicate breeds as those of the Channel Islands. Air.—E xtreme changes of temperature do not so much affect the breathing organs as does the quality of the atmo- sphere inhaled. The removal of a cow from a town-shed to the country, and vice versa, is effected in one day, and no thought, as a rule, is exercised as to the change affecting her health until something the matter is discovered. As regards air-space it is now pretty generally accepted that 800 cubic feet of air is necessary to each adult animal, but we may remark in this connection that the
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