46 GOAT. Class I. 



medicinal : it is an excellent succedaneum for 

 ass's milk, and has (with a tea-spoonful of 

 hartshorn drank warm in bed in the morning, 

 and at four o'clock in the afternoon, and re- 

 peated for some time) been a cure for the pthisic. 

 In some of the mountanous parts of Scotland 

 and Ireland, the milk is made into whey, which 

 has done wonders in this and other cases, where 

 coolers and restoratives are necessary : and to 

 many of those places, there is as great a resort 

 of patients of all ranks, as there is in England 

 to the Spas or Baths. It is not surprizing 

 that the milk of this animal is so salutary, as it 

 brouzes only on the tops, tendrils and flowers 

 of the mountain shrubs, and medicinal herbs, 

 rejecting the grosser parts. The blood of the 

 he goat dried, is a great recipe in some families 

 for the pleurisy and inflammatory disorders.* 



Cheese made of goats milk, is much valued 

 in some of our mountanous countries, when 

 kept to a proper age ; but has a peculiar taste 

 and flavor. 



The rutting season of these animals, is from 

 the beginning of September to November ; at 

 that time the males drive whole flocks of the 



* This remedy is taken notice of even by Dr. Mead in his 

 monita medica, p. 35. under the article pleuritis. The Germans 

 use that of the Stein-hoc, or Ibex* 



