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
=Chronic bronchitis in the ox= is characterized by a persistent
disturbance of the respiration, paroxysms of coughing, a white
flocculent discharge from the nose, increasing emaciation, pallor of the
mucous membranes, a mucous râle over the windpipe and median part of the
chest and a cooing sound over other points. If left to itself emaciation
becomes extreme, the skin is harsh, inelastic, attached to the ribs and
covered by vermin, and death usually ensues from diarrhœa or
consumption.
_After death_ the lesions are like those seen in the horse, unless there
is the complication of tuberculous or other disease of the substance of
the lungs.
_Treatment._ Neither the general care nor the remedial treatment differs
materially from that for the horse. The principle difference is in the
lesser liability to superpurgation and in the preference to be given to
Epsom or glauber salts over aloes as a laxative. Either saline may be
given in dose of one pound combined with an ounce of ginger or other
stimulants, and followed up by similar diuretics, expectorants and
tonics, as in the horse. The _chronic form_ is to be treated as in the
horse.
=Pigs and sheep= affected with =bronchitis= must be treated on the same
general principles as the ox, only giving one-fifth the amount of the
different medicaments, and in the case of the pig oleaginous purgatives
and emetics as advised for the dog.
BRONCHITIS IN THE DOG.
Causes, damp kennels, cold and damp after hunting, pampering and
exposure, distemper. Symptoms, fever, cough hard, later soft,
discharge watery, glairy, purulent. In capillary bronchitis cough more
paroxysmal, painful and attended with vomiting. Disturbance of
breathing, pulse, temperature. Fatality in different breeds.
Treatment, laxative, expectorants, diuretics, heart tonic, calmative,
water vapor, chest jacket, stimulant expectorants, stimulants, tonics.
Diet.
This is common and severe. Hounds kept in damp kennels, much exposed to
cold and damp after being heated in hunting, or subjected to frequent
and sudden alternations of temperature are specially liable. Pampered
pets kept in warm rooms, overfed and having little open air exercise,
are equally subject to its attacks. It is an usual form in which
distemper is manifested.
_Symptoms._ There is roughness of the coat or shivering and a small,
hard cough often repeated. If confined to the bronchi the cough soon
becomes loose, a free discharge sets in, and with care recovery may be
secured in five or six days.
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