Importance of supplying Cattle with pure Water, 15
Remarks on feeding Cattle, 17
The Barn and Feeding Byre, 21
Milking, 24
Knowledge of Agricultural and Animal Chemistry
important to Farmers, 25
On Breeding, 30
The Bull, 34
Value of Different Breeds of Cows, 35
Method of preparing Rennet, as practised in England, 36
Making Cheese, 37
Gloucester Cheese, 38
Chester Cheese, 39
Stilton Cheese, 40
Dunlop Cheese, 41
Green Cheese, 42
Making Butter, 44
Washing Butter, 45
Coloring Butter, 46
Description of the Organs of Digestion in Cattle, 47
Respiration and Structure of the Lungs, 53
Circulation of the Blood, 54
The Heart viewed externally, 55
Remarks on Blood-letting, 58
Efforts of Nature to remove Disease, 67
Proverbs of the Veterinary Reformers, 70
An Inquiry concerning the Souls of Brutes, 72
The Reformed Practice--Synoptical View of the
Prominent Systems of Medicine, 75
Creed of the Reformers, 79
True Principles, 80
Inflammation, 88
Remarks, showing that very little is known of the
Nature and Treatment of Disease, 94
Nature, Treatment, and Causes of Disease in Cattle, 105
Pleuro-Pneumonia, 107
Locked-Jaw, 115
Inflammatory Diseases, 121
Inflammation of the Stomach, (Gastritis,) 121
Inflammation of the Lungs, (Pneumonia,) 122
Inflammation of the Bowels, (Enteritis.--Inflammation
of the Fibro-Muscular Coat of the Intestines,) 124
Inflammation of the Peritoneal Coat of the Intestines,
(Peritonitis,) 125
Inflammation of the Kidneys, (Nephritis,) 125
Inflammation of the Bladder, (Cystitis,) 126
Inflammation of the Womb, 126
Inflammation of the Brain, (Phrenitis,) 127
Inflammation of the Eye, 128
Inflammation of the Liver, (Hepatitis,) 128
Jaundice, or Yellows, 130
Diseases of the Mucous Surface, 132
Catarrh, or Hoose, 133
Epidemic Catarrh, 134
Malignant Epidemic, (Murrain,) 135
Diarrhoea, (Looseness of the Bowels,) 136
Dysentery, 138
Scouring Rot, 139
Disease of the Ear, 140
Serous Membranes, 140
Dropsy, 141
Hoove, or "Blasting," 144
Joint Murrain, 147
Black Quarter, 149
Open Joint, 151
Swellings of Joints, 152
Sprain of the Fetlock, 153
Strain of the Hip, 154
Foul in the Foot, 154
Red Water, 157
Black Water, 160
Thick Urine, 160
Rheumatism, 161
Blain, 162
Thrush, 163
Black Tongue, 163
Inflammation of the Throat and its Appendages, 163
Bronchitis, 164
Inflammation of Glands, 164
Loss of Cud, 166
Colic, 166
Spasmodic Colic, 167
Constipation, 168
Falling down of the Fundament, 171
Calving, 171
Embryotomy, 175
Falling of the Calf-Bed, or Womb, 176
Garget, 177
Sore Teats, 178
Chapped Teats and Chafed Udder, 178
Fever, 178
Milk or Puerperal Fever, 182
Inflammatory Fever, 183
Typhus Fever, 186
Horn Ail in Cattle, 189
Abortion in Cows, 191
Cow-Pox, 194
Mange, 195
Hide-bound, 196
Lice, 196
Importance of keeping the Skin of Animals in a
Healthy State, 197
Spaying Cows, 201
Operation of Spaying, 204