The Farmer's Veterinarian: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Farm StockBurkett, Charles William
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The Farmer's Veterinarian: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Farm Stock
Burkett, Charles William
Veterinary medicine
When an animal is infected, remove at once to the burial lot and tie it
near the place it is to be buried, to save handling and scattering the
infection. When it dies, dig the grave. Then saturate the animal with
kerosene or coal oil and set it afire. By means of ropes tied around the
fetlocks turn the animal, saturate the other side and fire that, and
also the soles of the feet. When every hair has been burned off,
dissolve a one-pound carton of chlorinated lime (freshly opened) in
sufficient water to make a fluid that will just pour from the cup. Fill
the nostrils with this, also the mouth and eyes, which should be pried
open with a stick dipped in solution. Saturate some cotton or rags with
the lime, and plug up the nostrils or mouth. Treat the rectum likewise.
Turn the animal into its grave, sprinkle the ground on which it has
stood and laid with a strong solution of chlorinated lime, and shovel
the top layers of this soil into the grave. Follow this with the grave
soil, banking it up, as in human graves. In cases where the animal is
found dead, the same method is to be pursued, except that the animal is
hauled to the grave on a sled (never dragged over the ground). In these
cases, also, the place where it died must be disinfected by the same
means, after hauling out all loose material and burning the same, as
near as possible to the place where the animal died. It would also be
necessary to disinfect the sled and all tools which came in contact with
the carcass.
=APOPLEXY.=--A ruptured blood vessel in the brain; usually causes
unconsciousness, at least for a time. The control of certain muscles is
lost and a general dullness prevails over the animal. In case the
apoplectic attack runs a favorable course, the muscles come more or less
under control again and the patient in time may recover. It is in rare
cases only, however, that animals recover to an extent to be worth much
after being affected with apoplexy. Fortunately the disease in animals
is rare.
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