Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 1 (of 5)Law, James
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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 1 (of 5)
Law, James
Veterinary medicine
_Treatment_ must be adapted to the conditions. Over-work, damp unhealthy
buildings, and all appreciable health depressing causes must be
corrected, and a course of iron and nux vomica may be tried. Borax,
bromide of potassium, and extract of hyoscyamus, made into an electuary
with molasses or honey may be smeared upon the molars four or five times
a day. In obstinate cases the inhalation of the fumes of burning
salammoniac or sulphur, or the direct application to the larnyx of
dilute solutions of silver nitrate, ferric chloride, or alum may
benefit. The throat may be blistered by cantharides or mustard. Care
should be taken to keep the functions of bowels and kidneys normally
active, to protect the patient against cold and damp, and to give
nutritive but non-stimulating and easily digested food, as for the
horse, bran mashes, roots, grass or scalded hay, and for the dog pulped
flesh, soup and mush. Sometimes benefit can be obtained from the
vegetable aromatics and stimulants as eucalyptol, tar, turpentine,
balsams of Tolu and Peru, tincture of anise, fennel, etc.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF THE THROAT.
Infectious throat diseases. Parasites, Leeches. Œstrus larva. Chronic
sore throat. Mechanical removal.
Infections are in many respects the most serious affections of this
region but their consideration must be sought under strangles,
distemper, diphtheria, anthrax, actinomycosis, tuberculosis, glanders,
etc.
PARASITES OF THE THROAT.
=Leeches.= These taken in with the water will sometimes fasten
themselves on the walls of the pharnyx or even on the lips of the
larnyx, producing cough, sore throat, difficulty of swallowing, bleeding
from the nose (or mouth), or dyspnœa. They are to be removed as
recommended above under parasites of the nasal chambers.
=Œstrus Larva.= =Bots.= In horses and mules the larva of the œstrus
sometimes attaches itself to the mucous membrane of the pharynx or even
of the larynx producing chronic irritation, cough and even dyspnœa. A
chronic sore throat with nasal discharge, occurring in autumn or winter,
in the absence of fever or constitutional disorder may be found to
depend on these parasites and to recover when these have been removed by
the hand.
GUTTUROMYCOSIS OF SOLIPEDES.
Aspergillus. Complications, ulceration, lesions of adjoining parts,
food in lungs, hepatization, gangrene. Treatment, by incision, sulphur
dioxide, iodine.
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