Blood Letting. (From the " New Zealand Farmer.")

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 390, 3 August 1889, Page 6

Blood Letting . (From the " New Zealand Farmer.")

Ui'ox this subject a \eterinary wiitcr in the Kort/i JJriii>h Afjricultvri^l says :—: — "Blood letting piomptly and directly aflecta tissue chanties. Jl rapidly lemoves iiom tlio body nutiiben matciials. and especially blood globules. A full bleeding diminishes tlio acthity of aIL \ iral tunotioiifa excepting the pioducfcion of blood globule. Tho heart beat is quickened, but ibsfoioe i- lessoned : ni lentil tonsion isloueicd, absoi ption 13 increased, sensibility to pain is diminished, owinjj to reduced activity of the pcripheial centres. When blood io lu&b lapidly or iioely, nausea, fainting- and epileptiform convulpions ensue, and aitiiicial an.omia is pioducecl. In healthy subjects, howsver, the.se effects quickly disappear, and the blood ia uvpiUly r«btoicd to its normal state. Uncil within the la^t 30 yeats, blood letting was ficoly ii^cd in vetoiinary practice, and very jrcnorally abused. It luife hence fallen into di^iepute, and is now cmployod even in cages ot acute consrefction and inllamination, which it is especially fitted to contiol. Jt may bo u«ed either geneially or locally. In robust subjects, in acuto congestion or h.omtnoirliago horn the Junes, especially when accompanied by venous Ptasib, blood letting nflords prompt and frequently pcvtnnnenb relief. In tho n'rsb onset of]>uerpeial apoplexy in cattle, it checks the restlessness, deliiium or stupor, and aflords (ime for tho operation of purgatives and other drugs. Alike in hoi&c« aijd cattle, it ih serxiccable whcie fever is acute, wi:,h a firm incompressible, or full slow, indistinct pulse, as in inflammation of the pleura, peritoneum, or biain, as well as in acute lhcumatism. In j lymphangitis, and in many catcs of laminitus in lioisos, it is also useful.

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