Diseases of the Respiratory Organs. ■ 171 



hurried, cough, urine scanty and high-colored and surface oi 

 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 percus- 

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

 the cuticle soon peels off leaving raw sores, appetite is 

 completely lost, dung and uriue passed with much pain 

 and straining and there is general stiffness and indisposi- 

 tion to move. From the fourth to the sixth day ulcers 

 appear on the nose and muzzle, swellings take place be- 

 neath 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 cos- 

 tiveness. 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 Flague but is rarely contagioiis. 



Treatment. Clear oiit the bowels by a laxative (oHve 

 oil and laudanum), following this up by slightty stimulat- 

 ing diuretics (sweet spirits of nitre, liquor of acetate of 

 ammonia,) with antiseptics (chlorate of potassa, bichro- 

 mate 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 

 windpipe (laryngitis), or the plmrynx or membranous 

 pouch through which air and food both pass at the back 

 of the mouth fphar'yngitis), or the whole may be involved 

 (laryngo-pharyngitis). There are, besides, the sore throats 

 connected with specific diseases (croup, diphtheria, in- 

 fluenza, strangles, distemper and purpura). 



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

 of nasal catarrh. Bots in the throat may cause it ir 

 horses. 



