DISEASES OF TUB RESPIRATORY ORGANS, ?9 



and vagina bluish-red, pulse rapid, impulse of heart weak, 

 breathing hurried, cough, urine scanty and high-coloured, and 

 surface of the body alternately hot and cold. In twenty-four 

 hours all the symptoms are aggravated, the nose discharges a 

 slimy fluid, the forehead is warmer, and duller on percussion, 

 the mouth covered with dark-red blotches, from which the cuticle 

 soon peels off, leaving raw sores, appetite is completely lost, 

 dung and urine passed with much pain and straining, and there 

 is general stiffness and indisposition to move. From the fourth 

 to the sixth day ulcers appear on the nose and muzzle, swellings 

 take place beneath the jaws, chest, and abdomen, and on the 

 legs the skin may even slough off in patches, a foetid saliva 

 drivels from the mouth and a stinking diarrhoea succeeds the 

 costiveness. Death usually ensues from the eighth to the tenth 

 day, preceded perhaps by convulsions or signs of suffocation. 

 The disease strongly resembles the Russian Cattle Plague, but 

 is rarely contagious. 



Treatment. — Clear out the bowels by a laxative (olive oil and 

 laudanum), following this up by slightly stimulating diuretics 

 (sweet spirits of nitre, liquor of acetate of ammonia), with anti- 

 septics (chlorate of potassa, bichromate of potassa, hydrochloric 

 acid). Wet cloths may be kept on the head, the mouth and 

 nose sponged with very weak solutions of carbolic acid, and 

 only soft mashes and sliced or pulped roots allowed. 



SORE-THKOAT. 



This may be confined to the larynx or upper end of the wind- 

 pipe {laryngitis), or the pharynx or membranous pouch through 

 which air and food both pass at the back of the mouth {pharyn- 

 gitis), or the whole may be invoh ed {lary/igo-pharyngitis). There 

 are, besides, the sore-throats connected with specific diseases 

 (croup, diphtheria, influenza, strangles, distemper, and purpura). 



The CAUSES ot simple sore-throat are the same as those of 

 nasal catarrh. Bots in the throat may cause it in horses. 



