[The veterinary pharmacopoeia of Peter Bodmer, blacksmith and cattle doctor in Därligen 1836]
[Article in German]
Abstract
The
manuscript entitled "My pharmacopoeia Peter Bodmer in Därligen--1836"
[Arzeneybuch mein Peter Bodmer in Därligen pro. 1836] contains a
collection of a total of 227 remedies for the treatment of cattle,
horses, pigs and human beings. The author Peter Bodmer was born on 15
November 1811 in Därligen on the shores of Lake Thun and worked as a
smith and a cattle doctor. The manuscript cannot offer a full overview
of the therapeutic possibilities in veterinary medicine at that time.
The remedies mainly describe the peroral dispensing of herbal
preparations. The use of medicinal plants,
however, would only partially measure up to modern phytotherapy.
Bodmer's manuscript provides a certain insight into the traditional
herbal folk remedies used on animals and humans in the rural Bernese
Oberland at that time.
