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in the early spring months. The complaint is of a febrile character, 

 and of a low type, while it is generally accompanied by exhaustive 

 diarrhoea. The patient stops feeding and chewing the cud, the nose 

 is dry, there are excessive watery discharges from the eyes and 

 nose, and great languor and depression present. As the case 

 proceeds the eyes become red and gummy, and the secretion crusts 

 around the nostrils. The animal lies constantly, and will scarcely 

 get up, the case finally assuming a typhoid character. Good nursing 

 is eminently necessary. Clothe the body well, and make the patient 

 as comfortable as possible. Give to drink linseed jelly and milk, or 

 hay or nettle tea, or gruel, and administer three times a day either 

 i drachm of sulphate of quinine and 10 drops strong sulphuric acid 

 in i pint of cold water, or 3 drachms of chlorate of potash, with 

 25 drops of strong hydrochloric acid in cold water night and morn- 

 ing, with occasional ^--pint doses of linseed oil when necessary. 

 Aromatics, such as ginger, aniseeds, etc., given in treacle gruel 

 occasionally, will also be found to act beneficially. Steaming and 

 washing the nostrils, as recommended in par. 501, are of great 

 service. 



537. Bronchitis, Congestion of the Lungs, Pneumonia and 

 Pleurisy, arise in the cow from somewhat similar causes as they 

 do in the horse, and, again, require somewhat similar treatment 

 (pars, from 510 to 516). 



538. Bronchitis and Pneumonia I frequently meet with in 

 the cow following parturition, more particularly in the early spring 

 months. These in many cases have a septic tendency. Parturient 

 bronchitis in the cow is usually of a subacute nature ; the animal 

 drops off feeding and chewing the cud, secretion of milk is nearly 

 suspended, the flesh fails off very quickly, the animal has a languid 

 appearance, and there is a painful, sore cough, yet the breathing is 

 not much disturbed. While the parturient pneumonia is of a more 

 acute character, the symptoms are somewhat similar, only the cough 

 is not so frequent or so painful, and on applying the ear to the side 

 of the chest the lungs are heard to have a peculiar jerky, squeaky 



