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AND CIRCULATORY SYSTEMS, 



special Causes. 



Constant and repeated over-exertion. 

 Rheumatism. 



Infection. 



Infection. 



Infection 

 conditions 



aggravated by insanitar}' 



Result of previous disease of organs 

 of respiration. Over-heated stables. 



Due to pressure on nerve supplying 

 muscles of throat. Heredity. 



Chronic indigestion. Musty hay. 

 Bad grain. Heredity. 



Special Symptoms. 



Similar to mild case of pleurisy, with 

 absence of grunt and rasping sound in 

 chest. On listening to the heart a tur- 

 bulent riotous action is heard. Pulse 

 full and rapid. Anxious countenance. 



High temperature. Hard painful swellings 

 under jaws and sometimes in other 

 glands of the body. Breathing more or 

 less obstructed by abscess formation. 

 Swellings gradually get softer and more 

 painful to the touch, until pus breaks 

 out, or is withdrawn by lancing or 

 aspiration. 



Persistent high temperature. Congestion 

 of any part or whole of respiratory tract, 

 and of biliary ducts. Discharge from 

 eyes, nostrils, or throat. Loose, persis- 

 tent cough. Cold extremities. Swelling 

 of throat, eyelids, or legs. Leaden 

 colour of eyes or nostrils, and occasion- 

 ally yellow. 



combination of sub-acute symptoms of 

 pleurisy and pneumonia, with rapid, 

 but small and weak, pulse. Temp, 

 always high. Rapid short breathing. 

 Leaden or orange colour of eyes or nose. 

 Symptoms gradually and slowly appear 

 after previous high temperature. 



Persistent, hard, dry cough, with a 

 general unthriftiness. Ab.sence of any 

 acute disease, but often following disease 

 of lung, throat, or stomach. 



A noisy difficulty of breathing on severe 

 exertion, varying from the characteristic 

 whistle to a roaring or grunting noise. 

 A slowly progressive disease due to 

 paralysis of the muscles of one side of 

 the larynx, in animal otherwise healthy. 



Peculiar rales on listening to sides. 

 Short wheezy cough. Laboured breath- 

 ing on exertion. Symptoms much 

 aggravated by full stomach or indiges- 

 tion. Intervals of great improvement. 



Special Treatment. 



Use Blister No. VII. over region of heart. For 

 medicines use those for the primary disease 

 (vide rheumatism). 



Add one ounce of chlorate of potash to each two 

 gallons of drinking water. Give twice daily 

 in food one ounce of hyposulphite of soda. 

 Apply to swollen glands Blister No. VII. 

 Lance abscesses when ripe, and cleanse 

 thoroughly with Antiseptic No. X. Give 

 Medicine No. XXII. twice daily, or Medicine 

 No. XXXV. if swallowing is difficult. 



Apply Liniment No. II. to throat. Give Medi- 

 cine No. XXXII. three times first day. There- 

 after give Medicine No. XXII. two or three 

 times a day. Fumigate stables with burning 

 pine tar. If membranes are yellow, give two 

 ounces phosphate of soda once daily in food. 

 Regulate bowels with one or two doses of 

 Medicine No. XXVII. 



Treat same as pneumonia, with addition of one 

 dram of quinine once a day. In convalescence 

 give Tonic No. XX. twice a day. 



Tablospoonful of Mixture No. XXXV. every 

 evening, and two ounces of Tonic No. XXXI. 

 every morning. Apply liniment No. I. to 

 throat. 



No cure. Symptoms may be relieved by opera- 

 tion of tracheotomy. In early stages disease 

 may be retarded by Tonic No. XX. and 

 Mixture No. XXXV. once daily. 



Relief may be obtained by daily doses of one- 

 half dram digitalis and one dram sulphate 

 of copper in food, and by feeding with small 

 quantities of concentrated food at frequent 

 intervals. Reduce quantity of hay and water. 



