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
Feser and especially Lemcke strongly recommend apomorphia. It is used
hypodermically in doses of 2 grains for horse or cow repeated daily for
three days.
=Secondary Symptoms in Wool-eating Lambs.= Lambs from two to six weeks
old especially such as suck ewes with woolly udders (merino, Cotswold)
first swallow the wool inadvertently, and then acquire a liking for the
saline matters in the abundant yolk (merino), till finally the
accumulating wool balls produce digestive and nervous disorder and a
craving for the indulgence. Thus the breed must be considered in
estimating the symptoms. For the same reason the wool about the hips or
elsewhere soiled with salts of the urine or liquid fæces prove
attractive to the victim. The proximity of other wool eaters is another
cause which starts others to follow the bad example. The general
conditions of debility, exhausted soil, and the absence of alkaline and
earthy salts must be borne in mind. So too with prolonged confinement
indoors in winter, the absence of invigorating exercise and the
restriction of the animals (dams) to food which is deficient in saline
matters.
Beyond the mere eating of the wool and the destruction of fleeces, the
lambs do not usually suffer seriously. But if the consumption of wool is
excessive the accumulating balls of the size of marbles in the stomach,
and the blocking of the pylorus and small intestine, may give rise to
intermittent constipations and diarrhœas, deranged digestion,
muco-enteritis, mucous covered stools, loss of condition, emaciation and
retarded development.
_Treatment_ consists first in the securing of a more healthy regimen.
This is but one of the evils of the close winter confinement of an
animal preëminently adapted to freedom and exercise. Turning out in a
wide range, especially if pasture is available, is a prime
consideration. The separation from the flock, of the first wool eaters,
will check the propagation of the vice by imitation. Food that is
defective in one or more constituents must be supplemented by that which
will correct the deficiency. Salt, potassic salts and above all
phosphate of lime or bone meal will sometimes benefit. May recommends
the separation of the lambs from the ewes except when nursing, three
times a day. Finally Lemcke claims for apomorphia the same curative
effect as in other animals. The dose is 2 grains, subcutem, as in the
cow and may be repeated three days in succession.
LACERATION OF THE PHARYNX.
Trauma of pharynx from objects swallowed; from whip or other
instrument in choking; lesions. Symptoms: swelling; rapidly extending;
dysphagia; salivation; retching; dyspnœa; roaring; asphyxia.
Treatment: as for pharyngitis; open pouch, suture laceration; use
antiseptics; liquid diet.
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