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._ Nasal hemorrhage often stops spontaneously, but if the
discharge is profuse or long continued, and especially in weak or anæmic
conditions it must be treated energetically. Care should be taken,
however, to ascertain first, whether it is not vicarious of some other
and more dangerous condition like cerebral congestion.
The head should be placed in an elevated position by tying it up to the
rack, and cold water or ice kept applied over the head and neck. Matico
powder may be blown into the affected nostril during inspiration, or a
solution of alum (4 drachms to 1 pint of water) or other astringent may
be thrown in by means of a syringe. A tablespoonful of peroxide of
hydrogen thrown into the nose with an ordinary syringe will give
immediate relief. (Gillette.)
Plugging the affected nostril with a pellet of tow covered with matico,
tannin, tincture of chloride of iron (1:10 or 20) or other astringent
may be employed when other means fail. By means of a cord attached to
the plug it may be withdrawn after all danger is past. In solipedes, if
both nostrils must be plugged, wrap the tow around two elastic
caoutchouc tubes and introduce these, or in the absence of these perform
tracheotomy.
Any tendency to recurrence may be met by the internal administration of
gallic acid (horse and cow ½–1 drachm), acetate of lead (horse and cow
½–1 drachm) or, in anæmic conditions, tincture of the perchloride of
iron (horse and cow ½ oz.) in water.
RHINITIS. CORYZA. NASAL CATARRH. COLD IN THE HEAD.
Coryza in the horse: Causes, wet, cold after perspiration, damp
climate, stable, soil, new buildings, hygroscopic building materials,
youth, age, poverty, nervous sympathy, local irritants, iodine,
specific disease poisons. Symptoms, dry congestion, watery discharge,
muco-purulent discharge, eyes involved, chill, fever, circulatory and
breathing disturbance, defecation, urine, glandular swelling.
Inflammation of the sinuses, the severe effects. Duration in slight
cases, in severe, in sinus complication. Treatment, hygienic, nursing,
dietary, steam, sulphur dioxide, febrifuges, insufflation,
electricity, solvent, antiseptic, stimulant.
Under this head will be considered simple inflammation of the nasal
mucous membrane. This disease might be considered as a mild febrile
affection with the local manifestation in the nose, but it is more
convenient to treat of it here as a malady of the nasal chambers.
CORYZA IN THE HORSE.
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