Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swineMoussu, G. (Gustave)
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Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swine
Moussu, G. (Gustave)
Veterinary medicine
A verminous disease, closely simulating the above, and affecting cattle,
sheep, and goats in Texas, is described by Ch. Wardell Stiles in the
Annual Report of the United States Department of Agriculture for 1900,
p. 356. The disease was of mixed character, and consisted in various
degrees of verminous gastritis, verminous enteritis, and verminous
bronchitis. In the stomach were found the common twisted wireworm
(_Strongylus contortus_) and Ostertag’s encysted wireworm (_Strongylus
Ostertagi_). It appeared to be present in every calf, steer and cow
examined (post-mortem), and was undoubtedly the chief agent in causing
death. The sheep and goats were very similarly affected. In the bowel of
cattle were found the hookworm (_Uncinaria radiata_), nodular disease
worm (_Œsophagostoma columbianum_): in that of sheep the hookworm
(_Uncinaria cernua_) and nodular disease worm (_Œsophagostoma
columbianum_), and the fringed tapeworm (_Thysanosoma actinioides_). In
the lungs of the cattle _Strongylus micrurus_ (the small-tailed
lungworm), and of sheep the threadworm strongyle (_Strongylus filaria_)
were detected.
=Treatment.= Sulphate of copper, gasoline and coal-tar creosote were
tried, but the best results were obtained from doses of 30 grains (for a
lamb) up to 100 grains (for a two-year-old sheep) of thymol in 1 per
cent. coal-tar creosote solution.
INTESTINAL COCCIDIOSIS OF CALVES AND LAMBS (PSOROSPERMOSIS, HÆMORRHAGIC
ENTERITIS, BLOODY FLUX, DYSENTERY, ETC.).
=History.= This disease is very common in the Avalon and surrounding
districts, sometimes assumes the characteristics of a true epizootic,
and affects young bovine animals between the ages of six months and two
years, but is commonest and most contagious in animals of from ten to
eighteen months old.
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