Cattle and Their Diseases: Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, and Feeding and Management; with the Diseases to Which They Are Subject, and the Remedies Best Adapted to Their Cure

A remarkable time capsule of Victorian agricultural science, this 1854 manual represents the height of 19th-century thinking on cattle husbandry. Robert Jennings, a prominent veterinarian and agricultural writer, guides readers through the complete生命周期 of cattle management: the ancient roots of domestication, the emerging science of selective breeding, the精细 art of feeding and sheltering, and an exhaustive catalog of bovine ailments with their period remedies. What elevates this beyond a mere farming handbook is its window into the Victorian worldview itself a belief that nature could be systematically improved through human intervention, that breed improvement was a moral as well as practical imperative. The chapters on cattle diseases reveal both the limits and ambitions of 19th-century veterinary science, mixing hard-won practical wisdom with theories that would later be discarded. For readers interested in agricultural history, the evolution of American farming, or the intellectual world of mid-century America, Jennings provides an invaluable primary source.