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
The outside of the throat is hot, painful and swelled; swallowing is
sometimes difficult, and the fluid even may return by the nose; the
breathing is short and difficult, and when the air is drawn into the
lungs, a rough, harsh sound is heard in the larynx; the cough, at first
short and hard, becomes more hoarse and feeble, and occurs in fits,
especially during an attempt to swallow; the pulse is quick, hard and
full, and skin hot. As the disease advances the breathing becomes more
difficult, and is attended with a rasping, crowing sound, the neck is
straightened and held stiffly, the head raised and larynx drawn towards
the breast, the nostrils are widened, the nose lead colored, the eyes
red, skin damp with sweat, the pulse becomes weak and irregular, and at
last from the increasing narrowness of the windpipe, the horse actually
dies for want of breath.
TREATMENT.—The treatment is by no means difficult or complicated. Give
fifteen drops of A.A., every hour, during the violence of the disease,
and until the difficult breathing has abated and the animal becomes
comparatively easy. Then the intervals may be prolonged to two and then
to three hours, or more, until entire relief is obtained. If a cough
remains, the E.E. may be given in alternation, with the A.A.
Should the windpipe be very sore to the touch outside, it may be
occasionally bathed with HUMPHREYS’ MARVEL WITCH HAZEL with advantage.
Nasal Gleet
This is the term applied to an old, long standing, running from the
nose. It arises from a morbid condition of the lining membrane of the
nose, and is often the result of a badly treated or neglected cold,
especially in old, worn out horses, and is similar to catarrh in the
human species. Sometimes a diseased tooth in the upper jaw may give rise
to a similar discharge, but this is not a true gleet. An almost
incredible quantity of thickened mucous of different colors sometimes
passes, if the horse is at grass, almost as green as the food on which
he lives; or if he be stabled, white, straw-colored, brown, or even
bloody, and sometimes evidently mingled with matter or pus; and either
constantly running, or snorted out in masses many times in the day.
Sometimes the discharge comes only from one nostril, at other times both
nostrils are affected; in some cases the glands under the jaw are
enlarged, in other cases no enlargement can be discovered; perhaps after
the discharge has been very copious for some time it suddenly stops, and
the animal remains free from any discharge for several weeks, when it
comes on again as bad as ever; generally speaking, exercise increases
the discharge. Horses affected with this disease have been known to
continue free from any discharge for six or eight weeks, whilst they
have continued to rest; they have been taken to work, and in a day or
two the discharge has returned as bad as before.
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