Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swineMoussu, G. (Gustave)
Science
Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swine
Moussu, G. (Gustave)
Veterinary medicine
The injection, which should be given slowly, is followed by a fit of
coughing, and the expired air has the odour of turpentine. This
treatment has also been successful at Milan. Similar favourable results
have followed Hutton’s treatment of eight calves, some of which were in
the last stage of verminous bronchitis. He employed a mixture of oil of
turpentine, tincture of opium, pure carbolic acid, and water—the oil of
turpentine forming one-half of the mixture. The dose was ½ an ounce, and
in the serious cases this was given every day for three days, and in
other cases every second or third day. Kriwonogow has likewise cured
twenty-two calves by giving each of them two tracheal injections of 8
grams of the following mixture: Essence of cloves and oil of turpentine,
360 parts of each; carbolic acid and olive oil, 30 parts of each.
(Williams speaks highly of the administration of prussic acid. Penhale
gives—by intra-tracheal injection, and slowly—oil of turpentine 2 drams,
carbolic acid 20 minims, and chloroform ½ a dram.)
CHAPTER IV.
LUNGS AND PLEURÆ.
PULMONARY CONGESTION.
Besides passive congestions of the lung, which it is unnecessary to
describe here, and which result from cardiac or pericardiac affections
or the compression of important vessels, there sometimes occur,
particularly among young animals, cases of active congestion of the
lung. Such cases are produced by over-exertion on the part of animals
which have escaped from control or have been chased by dogs.
They are most common in animals usually kept in stables, but which have
accidentally escaped, or in very fat animals.
Dyspnœa and cough are the chief =symptoms=. The animals stop as though
exhausted, extend their neck and head, dilate their nostrils and thrust
their limbs out on either side of the body, while at the same time they
appear in a condition of terrible distress.
The respiration is rapid and short, the patient can scarcely breathe,
and asphyxia seems imminent. On auscultation it seems that the
respiratory murmur has disappeared over almost the entire extent of the
lung.
Death may occur very quickly.
=The diagnosis= is extremely easy, provided that the history is known.
=The prognosis= is grave.
One of the most successful methods of =treatment= consists in free
bleeding. In a great majority of cases this causes the symptoms to abate
as though by enchantment. Cutaneous stimulation by mustard and similar
irritants, as well as ablutions of cold water, are useful. The animal
should be placed in a very airy spot.
SIMPLE PNEUMONIA.
=History.= Veterinary surgeons have long been divided in opinion on the
question whether simple pneumonia occurs in animals of the bovine
species. Whilst some affirm it, others think that all lesions of the
lung in the ox, apart from pneumonia due to foreign bodies, should be
regarded as of the nature of peripneumonia.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account