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
In _fatal cases_ the sinuses are found to be filled with a glairy fluid
and the mucosa thickened and raw or ulcerated. There may be enlargement
of the pharyngeal lymphatic glands, and there may be attendant
pharyngitis.
_Treatment._ The patient must have absolute rest and cold water
irrigation or icebags applied to the head. The bowels may be opened by a
saline, or a diuretic administered. If the head is persistently dropped
it may be kept moderately elevated by a halter tied to a higher point.
Should there be no relief at the end of twenty-four hours, no time
should be lost in securing free admission of air to the cavity. Cruzel
advises to saw off the horn at its base, as the one certain method of
securing prompt improvement and speedy recovery. If a horn and its bony
support have been broken off they should be at once removed and the head
turned up to evacuate the accumulated glairy fluid from the sinus. From
an apparently hopeless condition a few hours will suffice to restore an
appearance of good health. If the horn has not been broken and it is
desirable to save it, the bone may be trephined in front of the root of
the horn and the liquid evacuated, or less effectively and more
painfully the horn may be bored at its root by a large gimlet.
If no hæmorrhage has taken place and if active treatment has been
adopted at the outset recovery may be complete in two or three days, but
if the disease has been ushered in by a hæmorrhage which recurs several
days in succession, amputation of the horn or trephining will be
demanded. In chronic cases this should be followed by astringent and
antiseptic injections and a blister may be applied to the throat or the
side of the neck. In these cases too a course of mineral tonics is
desirable.
CHRONIC CATARRH OF CATTLE.
Catarrh, chronic, summer aggravation, thickened, roughened, mucosa,
discharge, twigs in nose. Question of parasitism. Treatment, remove
causes, antiseptic astringents.
A remarkable form of chronic catarrh with summer aggravation exists in
some of the hilly districts of New York but has not received such study
as to enable us to state its true nature.
One or two in a large herd will have a loud snuffling breathing, which
may subside so as to be entirely overlooked in winter, but reappears
when put to pasture in the spring and continues in a marked form
throughout the warm weather and until after the animal is returned to
winter quarters. There appears to be little or no fever nor
constitutional disturbance except what comes from the obstructed
breathing, and the yield of milk may be unchanged. The symptoms would
indicate a purely local disease. Yet so few are attacked out of a herd
that it cannot be actively contagious.
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