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
The mode of injection is a matter of no small moment. It has been done
in some instances by means of a large syringe but the irritation
attendant on such a process is an insuperable objection to its use. A
better instrument is that introduced by Professor Rey of Lyons. It
consists in a tube bent on itself at an angle of 35° so as to form two
arms of unequal lengths. The longer fifteen inches in length, one and a
half in diameter and widening into a funnel at its free end;—the shorter
about five inches long and tapering towards its free end where its
aperture is only two-thirds of an inch across. The instrument is made of
block tin or extemporaneously of gutta percha. Over the shorter arm is
placed a tightly fitting leather ring four and a half inches in diameter
on which is applied some wet tow to adapt it to the nostril and
effectually close it. The nose having been drawn in so as to place the
head in a vertical position, the short arm of the instrument is
introduced into the affected nostril, and the liquid being gently poured
into the long arm rises slowly in the nose until it is filled and the
liquid flows from the nostril on the opposite side. In introducing the
tube care must be taken that it may not irritate the inner wall of the
nose on the one hand, nor pass into the blind pouch, known as the _false
nostril_, on the other.
The greatest gentleness and tact are requisite in thus injecting the
nostrils, though in troublesome animals it is sometimes necessary to
resort to blindfolding or even to the application of a twitch on the
ear, or finally to strapping the animal (head included) to a smooth firm
vertical surface (operating table).
COLLECTION OF PUS IN THE NASAL SINUSES.
Nasal Sinuses, position, orifice, suppuration, symptoms, treatment,
tonics, astringents, antiseptics, trephining, significance of the
fœtor, mode of recovery.
In severe _coryza_ the nasal sinuses become implicated as shown by the
intensity of the symptoms, the prostration, the hanging head, and the
heat and sometimes tenderness between the eyes and immediately beneath
them on the side of the upper jaw. These sinuses are large spaces filled
with air, situated between the superficial and deep plates of the bones
of the face and opening into the nostrils by a narrow orifice in the
upper part of the nasal chambers. When pus is largely formed in these it
fails to flow out as rapidly as produced, parts with a portion of its
liquid elements, increases in consistency and sometimes even undergoes
decomposition, so that the discharge from the nostril has a putrid odor.
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