A practical treatise on the breeding cow, and extraction of the calf, before and at the time of calving : in which the question of difficult parturition is considered in all its bearings, with reference to facts and experience; including observations on the diseases of neat cattle generally; containing profitable instructions to the breeding farmer, cowkeeper, and grazier, for attending to their own cattle during illness ... / by Edward Skellett.

  • Skellett, Edward
Date:
[after 1868]
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Credit: A practical treatise on the breeding cow, and extraction of the calf, before and at the time of calving : in which the question of difficult parturition is considered in all its bearings, with reference to facts and experience; including observations on the diseases of neat cattle generally; containing profitable instructions to the breeding farmer, cowkeeper, and grazier, for attending to their own cattle during illness ... / by Edward Skellett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as there directed, till a profuse discharge or j)listerii]g takes place, which will form into a crust, and act as it were a charge to the part, and therefore it sliou Id not be rubbed off. This method the author has always found succeed, and it has prevented suppuration taking place; but if suppuration has al- ready begun, or the disease has advanced so far that it cannot be avoided, it should be brought to a head as soon as possible ; after which, the wound must be treated under its proper head, (see Wounds in the Joints, &c.) When the scurf falls off, which the blistering has produced, and there remains any lame- ness, the charge may be laid on, as in p. 200, which will complete the cure. When this swelling comes on gradually, with little pain, and is of a hard, callous, or ossified nature, in this case fomentations will be of no use ; but the following plan will be found to succeed, if early applied. The hair is to be first cut ofl* the part affected, and