. Diseases in the American stable, field and farmyard : containing a familiar description of diseases, their nature, cause and symptoms, the most approved method of treatment, and the properties and use of remedies, with directions for preparing them. Veterinary medicine; Horses. BLEEDINa. 23 as in man, but is equally troublesome, and requires for its cure a formidable operation called Lithotomy, an operation of no great magnitude to an expert surgeon, but can scarcely be undertaken by an unprofessional per- son, even though a description of it were given. Bleeding. 1. Bleeding.—An operation f


. Diseases in the American stable, field and farmyard : containing a familiar description of diseases, their nature, cause and symptoms, the most approved method of treatment, and the properties and use of remedies, with directions for preparing them. Veterinary medicine; Horses. BLEEDINa. 23 as in man, but is equally troublesome, and requires for its cure a formidable operation called Lithotomy, an operation of no great magnitude to an expert surgeon, but can scarcely be undertaken by an unprofessional per- son, even though a description of it were given. Bleeding. 1. Bleeding.—An operation for the drawing of blood from the body, either locally or generally. As before stated, it is almost entirely discarded from domestic prac- tice, and should never be used in the treatment of dis- eases of animals, however much the adherent of an exploded and an erroneous system may doubt it. Medi- cines will be described in this book that will not only insure greater success in saving a very much greater per- centage of sick animals, and with less trouble in a much shorter time, and without in any way impairing the sana- tive powers of the animal's FORCEPS FOR LIFTING BLEEDING AND WOUNDED BLOOD YESSELS SO THAT THEY MAT BE TIED. 2. Bleeding from Wounds.—If the wound be a sim- ple one, and not on the inside of a leg where the large blood vessels are situated^ all that will be necessary to stop it will be a small piece of cotton or soft cloth placed in and over the wound, and secure it for a few hours by a broad bandage, not too tightly applied over it, or, if preferred, touch the mouth of the bleeding vessel with a piece of iron previously immersed in boiling water or in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original McClure, Robert. Philadelphia : Porter


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