The Bovine Prescriber

Excerpt from The Bovine Prescriber: For the Use of Veterinary Practitioners and Students Often in large amount. It is in the fourth stomach that true digestion takes place. Hence it comes about that cattle require large doses of nearly all medicines. For instance, whereas a drachm of Epsom salts will suffice for a man, an ox will require about sixteen ounces, 128 times as much. The intestinal tract of an ox is, so to speak, protected at the outset, and is not SO easily acted upon, as is that of other animals, and, Since all medicines given by the mouth pass through that conduit to some extent at least, the same result follows in regard to other remedies also. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.