366 DISEASES OF HORSES AND CATTLE. 



short time. The parasites can be found in the 

 mucous that is coughed up by the aid of a strong 

 glass. This disease is of a very exhausting nature 

 and the animal becomes rapidly emaciated, and 

 diarrhoea sets in as a complication. Steel says: 

 "The parasites imbedded in stringy mucous lie 

 intertwined in groups, or stretched against the 

 bronchial mucous membrane. When in balls they 

 block up the air passage. They also cause spasms 

 of the bronchial tubes. Thus they seriously im- 

 pede respiration, which is always remarkably la- 

 bored in this disease." The usual duration of the 

 attack is about two to three weeks. 



Treatment: Collect all the affected calves and 

 put them into a house, then close the doors and 

 windows, then put coals of fire into a pot and put 

 a pound or two of sulphur into it; remain in the 

 house with the calves and keep the doors shut as 

 long as you can stand it. Then the pot containing 

 the burning sulphur is removed and the animals 

 left exposed to the gas for a quarter of an hour or 

 so, then let them out. Also give each half a dram 

 of sulphate of iron in a little gruel in the morn- 

 ing, and from half to an ounce of spirits of turpen- 

 tine in a little oil in the evening; feed on good 

 food. All the bedding and other materials on 

 which there is any chance of the discharge getting 

 should be destroyed, as it may contain some of the 

 larvae, and if it should be eaten by other animals 

 there is a possibility of their getting the disease 

 in this way. 



