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
Tracheal injections in the verminous bronchitis of calves are of great
utility; but for a flock of sheep they would be troublesome and
difficult to administer. However, Nieman, has successfully employed them
on 384 sheep belonging to several small owners. He used a solution of 2
parts iodine and 10 parts iodide of potassium in 100 parts of distilled
water. This fluid was mixed, in equal parts, with oil of turpentine, and
made into an emulsion with olive oil; each sheep received 5 to 8 grams
of the mixture, and the number of the injections varied according to the
gravity of the disease—from two to three at two days’ interval. The
worms were killed and expelled during the paroxysms of coughing, and the
bronchitis was modified.
The medical treatment should be assisted by very nourishing food, and by
bitter, stimulating, and ferruginous tonics, which arouse the digestive
functions and allow those animals which are least exhausted to reach the
period of elimination of the parasites.
At the commencement of any kind of treatment it is well to have an
examination of the flock, with the object of sending the worst cases to
the butcher.
The same medicaments have been employed in treating this malady in
calves as in that of sheep, and no better results have been obtained.
Neumann and Janné have, however, been successful with asafetida (30
grams), Chabert’s empyreumatic oil (60 grams), and a mucilaginous
decoction (500 grams)—a spoonful of this mixture being given in a half
litre of milk, and the treatment continued for about a month.
The results are less uncertain if the worms lodged in the bronchial
tubes are directly acted upon, either by means of injections of the same
kind as those employed for sheep, or fluid medicaments introduced
directly into the bronchi.
Read says he has cured calves worn down almost to skeletons by verminous
bronchitis by the following procedure: The head of the calf is slightly
elevated, and about 2 drachms of ether, chloroform, oil of turpentine,
or rectified oil of amber—single or combined—are poured into each
nostril and allowed to vaporize there; it will then, by the respiration,
be carried into the air passages, and thus destroy the filariæ. In some
cases it must be repeated two or three times, but once has frequently
the desired effect.
The method of treatment by intra-tracheal injection, introduced by Levi,
of Pisa, has yielded very satisfactory results. Levi has been completely
successful with a sheep. Éloire has employed it in sixteen calves
affected with the disease, and all were cured. He used the following
mixture: Black poppy oil, 100 parts; oil of turpentine, 100 parts;
carbolic acid, 2 parts; purified cade oil, 2 parts. Each calf received
10 grams of this mixture daily for three days.
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