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
The inspiratory sound may be strong, rough, rasping, painful, moist or
rattling. The pathological expiratory sounds may vary between audible,
strong, rough, prolonged, or rattling. The varieties of souffle, or
rattle, are the tubal souffle of inspiration or expiration (met with in
pneumonia or broncho-pneumonia); the soft, deep-seated pleuritic souffle
(peripneumonia); the continuous cavernous souffle (met with in
tuberculosis); the broad amphoric souffle, in which the vibrations are
extensive and of metallic character (met with in pneumo-thorax).
As to the varieties of _râles_ which usually accompany these souffles,
they may all be met with in tuberculous animals, and comprise crepitant
and sub-crepitant, mucous, cavernous, snoring and sibilant _râles_.
CHAPTER II.
NASAL CAVITIES.
SIMPLE CORYZA.
Simple acute coryza, or inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nasal
cavities, is of comparatively trifling importance in bovine animals,
and, were it not for the possibility of gangrenous coryza being confused
with it, there would scarcely be any necessity for a special
description.
The onset of coryza is indicated by repeated sneezing and coughing, by
congestion of the pituitary mucous membrane, which soon begins to
secrete abnormally, and by difficulty in respiration, which becomes
snoring or whistling.
The discharge, transparent at first, then mucous and muco-purulent, is
abundant in quantity; the inflammation is arrested at this point or
extends towards the facial sinuses, the pharynx and larynx; the eyes are
swollen and watering, and almost all the characteristic symptoms appear
which mark the onset of gangrenous coryza. Two signs, however, are
wanting. The appetite is fairly well maintained, and the temperature
little above normal. Simple coryza occurs at all times of the year in
consequence of sudden chills, but is commonest in spring and autumn.
At first the distinction between this condition and gangrenous coryza
can only be ascertained after taking the temperature.
=The prognosis= is absolutely favourable, and often in forty-eight hours
every symptom disappears.
=Treatment= is confined to keeping the animals in stables at a suitable
temperature, sheltered from draughts. Emollient fumigations and
inhalations of turpentine, creosote, or eucalyptus oil rapidly check the
more alarming symptoms. Warm drinks and foods and cooked roots are
recommended.
In sheep, acute coryza as a consequence of chills, etc., occurs in
autumn, but is more commonly due to a parasitic cause, viz., invasion of
the nasal cavities by larvæ of certain œstridæ. During the succeeding
winter it continues under the form of chronic coryza, as a result of the
larvæ retaining their position in the sinuses.
Treatment of this parasitic coryza consists in trephining the sinuses
and destroying the larvæ.
GANGRENOUS CORYZA.
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