Manual of veterinary homeopathy : $b comprising diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, dogs and poultry and their homeopathic treatmentHumphreys, F. (Frederick)
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Manual of veterinary homeopathy : $b comprising diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, dogs and poultry and their homeopathic treatment
Humphreys, F. (Frederick)
Homeopathic veterinary medicine
This disease is usually the result of exposure to cold and wet, or
sudden changes of temperature; it is almost always preceded by a common
cold, which has been neglected or overlooked.
SYMPTOMS.—Cough, which becomes by degrees more painful, frequent and
husky; the countenance becomes anxious and distressed; the breathing is
quick, heaving and obstructed, in consequence of tough, tenacious
phlegm; unwillingness to move; the breath is hot; the cough is increased
by moving about, occurs in fits, and is wheezing in character; no food
is eaten; the animal wastes; skin becomes dry, and is bound to the ribs;
the coat stares and looks unthrifty. The animal may die from extension
of the disease to the substance of the lungs.
TREATMENT.—The earlier stages of this disease, or catarrh, should be
treated at once, as directed under that head. Then a dose or two of the
remedy for that disease removes all danger.
Remove the animal to a warm but well ventilated stable, and feed on warm
mashes and gruel.
Give first, at intervals of two hours, two or three doses of A.A.,
twenty drops at a dose. This will allay the heat and fever to some
extent. Then alternate, at intervals of three hours, the E.E., with the
A.A., the same doses, and continue this treatment until restored, only
that the medicine need not be given so frequently after improvement has
progressed.
Pleurisy
This disease consists of an inflammation of the delicate membrane which
lines the chest, and also is reflected over or covers the lungs.
It is caused most frequently by exposure to cold, or from the extension
of catarrh. Pleurisy rarely exists alone, but is almost invariably
complicated with bronchitis or pneumonia, or both.
SYMPTOMS.—The disease generally begins in the same manner as pneumonia,
with dullness, loss of appetite, etc. The cough is attended with pain,
and seems to be cut short, as if the animal tried to stop it; the
breathing is short, seemingly cut off and evidently painful during the
passage of the air into the lungs, and is attended with a grunt during
its expiration; the sides are painful when pressed upon; the skin, at
the angles of the mouth, is wrinkled; the shoulders and upper part of
the chest are in a constant quiver; the head is stretched out; the eyes
are unusually bright; the tongue hangs out of the mouth, from which
frothy slaver is continually flowing. The animal neither eats nor chews
the cud; she gets weaker and thinner every day, and all the symptoms
become more and more severe until death ensues, often preceded by
excessive purging.
TREATMENT.—Give at first the A.A., a dose of twenty drops, every two
hours, and continue this the first day and night if the case is severe.
Then alternate the E.E., with the A.A., at intervals of two, three or
four hours.
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