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
Cough
This is usually a symptom of some primary disorder on the cure of which
it will disappear. It may, however, be a passing irritation. A
persistent cough is suggestive of serious ailment, and, without delay,
give the E.E., and you may save the animal.
Laryngitis
Laryngitis, or inflammation of the lining membrane of the windpipe, is
due to cold, changeable weather, etc. It is distinguished from
bronchitis (see next section) by a characteristic _ring_ in the cough.
The open mouth, with outstretched head, indicates difficulty of
breathing and a sense of suffocation. This frequently ensues from
thickening of the membrane and closure of the _rima glottidis_, or
entrance to the windpipe. A.A., a dose two or three times per day, is
the treatment.
Bronchitis, or Inflammation of the Bronchial Tubes
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 the 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.
Pneumonia—Inflammation of the Lungs
This disease may be caused by exposure to cold and wet; too severe
weather; sudden changes of weather; cold nights and mornings and hot
middays, are apt to induce it.
SYMPTOMS.—Want of appetite; loss of the cud; dull, staring eyes; ears
are hung down; the head is held up; the mouth open; breathing quick,
labored and difficult, with heaving of the flanks; grating of the teeth;
inside of the nose and white of the eyes much reddened; a discharge, at
first thin and watery, afterwards mattery and offensive, flows from the
nostrils; frequent painful cough, attended with rattling in the throat.
These symptoms gradually become more and more severe, until the animal
dies.
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