Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 2 (of 5)Law, James
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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 2 (of 5)
Law, James
Veterinary medicine
_Prevention._ Remove the infected from the flock (with ordinary fowl it
is often best to kill and burn or bury them), keep the poultry house and
yard scrupulously clean of droppings and sprinkle it occasionally with a
3 per cent. solution of sulphuric acid. The poultry house may be
fumigated with sulphur (1 ounce to the cubic yard), or the walls and
roosts may be washed with a solution (1:12) of bisulphide of carbon in
liquid vaseline. The diseased must be removed as soon as they are
detected and food and water must be given pure. If pure water is not
available, boil it or render it acid by sulphuric acid (1:33), and feed
grain, cooked roots, bran and bread with more or less green food.
In the case of valuable birds immunization may be secured by inoculating
with the virulent blood or culture so diluted that not more than one or
two of the germs shall be inserted in each case or the virulent liquid
may be heated for 20 minutes to a temperature of 55° C (121° F) and then
injected in a dose of 2 drops.
_Treatment._ If it is decided to treat the sick they should be placed
together in safe seclusion from all others. Feed with mush or cooked
roots or vegetables adding salol ½ dr. naphthol 1 dr. and quinia 1 dr.
to the food of 15 or 20 fowls. Nitrate of bismuth and powdered charcoal
may be added in moderate quantities. As drink give water containing 2%
of sulphuric acid. Antiseptic enemata may be added in the case of very
valuable birds, salol, naphthol, boric acid, salicylate of soda, or
solution of carbolic acid or creosote. Stimulants and tonics are highly
esteemed by some, and Cadeac recommends the free use of the following
mixture: powdered fennel, anise, coriander and quinia of each 5 drs.,
gentian 10 drs., ginger 12 drs., ferric sulphate 2½ drs.
COCCIDIAN ENTERITIS IN CATTLE. COCCIDIOSIS. RED DYSENTERY.
Definition. Distribution: Switzerland in summer. Causes: weakness,
debility, youth, cold, heats, spoilt fodder, protozoa, coccidium
oviforme, coccidium perforans. Lesions: reddening, thickening and
desquamation of alimentary mucosa and lungs, congested mesenteric
glands, liver and spleen, coccidia in discharge and epithelium,
staining, anæmia. Symptoms: chill, fever, grinding teeth, fœtid
diarrhœa becoming bloody, tenesmus, stiffness, red ulcerated rectum,
emaciation, false membranes. Duration: death in one to fourteen days
or more. Complications. Diagnosis by coccidia. Prevention: avoidance
of affected soils, water and fodder. Treatment: antiseptic, by mouth
and as enemata, demulcents. Flesh safely eaten by man. Coccidium
bigeminum in dogs, coccidium oviforme in rabbits, coccidium tenellum
and gregarina avium intestinalis in birds.
_Definition._ Enteritis affecting chiefly the colon and rectum, and due
to the presence of the protozoa, coccidium oviforme, and coccidium
perforans.
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