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Specific treatment can be given that will compare with 

 liberal feeding in warding off and removing the ill effects 

 of the disease. 



Bronchitis may be simple or parasitical. It is simple 

 when it results from undue exposure, as to inclement 

 weather or to drafts such as produce effects more deep 

 seated than catarrhal troubles. It is parasitical when it is 

 the outcome of the presence of some parasites in the bron- 

 chial tubes, as for instance the thread lung worm, which 

 has already been discussed (see page 399). 



The indications of bronchitis in lambs are a moist 

 and wheezing cough, more or less fever and increased 

 rapidity of breathing. The coughing is in most instances 

 severe and prolonged. 



Treatment in the ordinary sense of the term will be 

 of comparatively little avail. Preventive measures are 

 vastly more efficacious. These are such as pertain to the 

 protection of sheep from storms, especially rainstorms, 

 and from drafts such as produce catarrh. This, how- 

 ever, does not exclude the use of laxatives and of certain 

 stimulant tonics. But the most efficacious measures that 

 can be adopted are such as relate to good nursing, which 

 means providing good sanitary conditions and a nourish- 

 ing diet. 



Simple pneumonia is more deeply seated than catarrh 

 or bronchitis. It is a disease of the lungs in which the 

 inflammation works rapidly, if left unchecked. Because 

 of the rapidity with which the disease does its work, it 

 has been termed, in common phrase, "rot of the lights." 



The indications of pneumonia are various. It com- 

 mences with frequent and troublesome coughing. There 

 is also present an unwillingness to move, heaving of the 

 flank and signs of labored breathing. As the disease in- 

 creases the symptoms become intensified. Finally, the 

 animals stagger and succumb unless relief is furnished, 

 which occurs but seldom, as the disease is usually quite 

 fatal. 



