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THE DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



DIPHTHERIA, 



Or a disease resembling it, sometimes affects cattle. 



Symptoms. — Throat sore and swollen; coughing spells; 

 flow of saliva from mouth and mucus from nostrils; ac- 

 celerated breathing, causing a crowing sound during in- 

 spiration; may be spasms of larynx, especially if animal 

 is excited ; great debility finally supervenes ; pulse, at first 

 quick, grows weaker and weaker as the disease progresses ; 

 cough worse ; about the third day lymph-casts of parts of 

 the air tubes, or flakes of lymph at least, are ejected. 



Fig. 99. Steaming apparatus for Diphtheria, Catarrh, Bronchitis, &c. See 

 Fig. 100, an equally good and simpler method. 



Remedy. — Careful nursing. Liquid food. Steam air 

 passages with an antiseptic inhalation, such as about a 

 teaspoonful of oil of eucalyptus to about a gallon of boil- 

 ing water ; a free supply of water containing about a 

 dram of chlorate of potassium to half bucket water. Good 

 air. Salicylic acid, 1 dram, is useful ; also same quantity 

 sulphite sodium. 



Puncture throat if there is danger of suffocation. Ton- 

 ics if necessary. 



