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._ It is advised to place the sheep in a warm building to
encourage the parasites to come out of their recesses and then introduce
some agent to destroy them or to induce their expulsion by sneezing. The
value of the hot building is probably hypothetical unless the larvæ are
approaching maturity. The following agents are used:—moderately strong
solutions of salt, vinegar, carbolic acid, creosote (1 part to 100 parts
of water), or carbonate of ammonia, lime water, snuff, or even such
irritants as quick lime, oil of turpentine or hellebore. These last must
be used with caution as they are liable to induce fatal inflammation of
the air passages though no larva is present.
By passing a feather up the nostril twisting it round and then
withdrawing it some grubs can usually be withdrawn and there is no harm
in first dipping the feather in some of the milder agents mentioned
above. But the larvæ in the sinuses can never be reached in this way.
In dangerous cases it is best to trephine the outer plate of bone
covering the frontal sinuse and wash out freely with tepid water, lime
water, or benzine. The operation may be performed close in front of the
root of the horn if there is one, or to the inner side of the lower part
of the eye if there is not. A semi-circular flap of skin is to be turned
upward and backward sufficiently large to allow the use of a trephine ⅓
inch in diameter, which is to be used as for _Cœnurus Cerebralis_. The
opening being made the sinuse is to be syringed freely for some time
until the parasites come from the nose in the stream of liquid. The
wound heals very promptly. In the absence of a trephine use a gimlet.
_Prevention._ Some turn up a furrow in the pasturage, in which the sheep
may burrow their noses and evade the fly, others lay down quicklime in
covered boxes which has the further advantage of inducing sneezing and
favoring expulsion of the entering parasites. But perhaps the best plan
is to procure a log and bore a number of holes in it with a two inch
augur; place salt in the holes and smear their margins with tar, and
renew it often. The sheep then takes a protective dressing with every
lick of salt.
=Œstrus Purpureus= (Brauer) is a species which infest the nose, etc., of
the Syrian sheep, and =Cephalemia Maculata= (Wedl) one which infests the
nasal chambers of the Egyptian buffalo and camel.
NASAL CATARRH IN DOG AND HORSE FROM LINGUATULA (PENTASTOMA) TAENIOIDES.
RHINARIA TAENIOIDES.
Form. Family. Habitat when mature, and immature. Development.
Symptoms, sneezing, discharge, irritability, ill-temper, shaking the
head, rubbing nose, parasites in discharge. Treatment, injections,
trephining. Prevention.
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