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from the nose and a mucous rale on auscultation. Percussion 

 gives healthy resonance. The disease reaches its height on the 

 fifth day and recovery may be almost perfect on the eighth. Its 

 chief danger is from a complication with pneumonia or pleurisy, 

 or from its merging into the chronic form. 



Chronic bronchitis in the ox is characterized by a persistent 

 disturbance of the respiration, paroxysms of coughing, a white 

 flocculent discharge from the nose, increasing emaciation, palor of 

 the mucous membranes, a mucous rale over the windpipe and 

 median part of the chest and a cooing sound over other points. 

 If left to itself emaciation becomes extreme, the skin is harsh, 

 inelastic, attached to the ribs and covered by vermin, and death 

 usually ensues from diarrhoea or consumption. 



After death the lesions are like those seen in the horse, unless 

 there is the complication of tuberculous or other disease of the 

 substance of the lungs. 



Treatment. Neither the general care nor the remedial treat- 

 ment differs materially from that for the horse. The principle 

 difference is in the lesser liability to superpurgation and in the 

 preference to be given to Epsom or glauber salts over aloes as a 

 laxative. Either saline may be given in dose of one pound com- 

 bined with an ounce of ginger or other stimulants, and followed 

 up by similar diuretics, expectorants and tonics, as in the horse. 

 The chrojiic form is to be treated as in the horse. 



Pigs and sheep affected with bronchitis must be treated on 

 the same general principles as the ox, only giving one-fifth the 

 amount of the different medicaments, and in the case of the pig 

 oleaginous purgatives and emetics as advised for the dog. 



