NOTES ON THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CATTLE 

 PATHOLOGY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 



PoR a long time after some scientific knowledge liad been brought 

 to bear on the subject of the diseases of the horse, the treatment of 

 other domesticated animals remained in the hands of the most 

 ignorant of empirics, who, under the name of " Cow leeches," were 

 called in to attend such cases as proved beyond the experience of 

 the owner. The vilest and moat complicated of nostrums were 

 administered by these worthies, and it seems that it was generally 

 considered to be safer for the farmer to trust to his simple know- 

 ledge of disease and the prescriptions handed down to him by 

 his ancestors, than to expend money on medicinal treatment with 

 little prospect of receiving its value, and considerable likelihood of 

 detriment to his stock. Hence, we find that accounts of the diseases 

 of the ox are, with those of other animals, treated of in works on 

 Husbandry, such as Markham's Way to Wealth and Country Farmer, 

 and we need scarcely say that the language used and the notions 

 expressed in these works were markedly diflferent from those 

 sanctioned by science. Before 1825, some books were produced 

 specially touching upon the management and diseases of cattle, of 

 these we may mention : 



Mascall on " Cattle " (1680). 



Mills on "Cattle" (1776). 



Downing on " Cattle " (1797). 



Feron's " Farriery" (1803). 



RowHn's " Cow Doctor " (1804). 



Boothby on " Cattle " (1809). 



Causer on " Domestic Animals " (1822). 

 Also the works of Lawrence, Tindall, Ry dings. Peck, and Rydge, 

 and those of Clater and White, which, under much modified forms, 

 have remained to the present day ; the latest edition of Clater's 

 Cattle Doctor by Armatage being one of no little value, to which we 

 are indebted for many useful hints and illustrations. White was 

 an author of much repute and merit, and his Veterinary Dictionary 

 and Cattle Medicine are still worth examination, especially the 1842 

 edition of the latter, which was brought out by Mr. W. C. Spooner, 

 an eminent veterinary surgeon and accomplished writer. Topham 

 produced a book specially on the Diseases of Cattle, and this period 

 of the evolution of the literature of cattle pathology led to such 

 monographs on special subjects, as Parkinson on Parturient 

 Animals, Skellet on the Breeding Cow, and Blurton on Milking. 



In 1798 was published Jenner's remarkable work on Variola 

 Vaccina. 

 During the rise of veterinary science appeared books useful both 



