TILE OX—-MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS AND INJURIES. 279 
EUROPEAN RINDERPEST, OR CATTLE PLAGUE. 
This disorder, known also as Russian Cattle Plague, is a contagious 
fever which is communicable to other animals than cattle. It is marked by 
a general congestion of the mucous membranes and an excessive growth of 
the outer layers of the cells of the skin and membranes, with a shedding of 
the latter. It is transmitted only by contagion, but very readily in that way. 
Its violent symptoms may occur in a day after its germs have been 
communicated, though it may not become fully established for ten days. 
Symptoms.—At first, irregular but rather an increased appetite; dull- 
ness; tottering; occasionally the animal bellows, stamps, and is vicious; hang- 
ing bend and ears; chewing slow and irregular; upon rising the animal 
yawns, humps the back and draws the feet under the body, but does not 
stretch itself, as is usual in healthy cattle; trembling; bristling hair; eyes 
blood-shot; eyelids swollen; husky cough; digs scanty dung, and scanty urine, 
both passed with difficulty; the animal is tender; pressure on the loins causes 
dropping of the back. After the third day and as early as the eighth, 
twitching; bristling hair; trembling limbs; the ears hang and are cold or 
hot, as are also the roots of the horns; ne red and hot inside; gums 
swollen and spongy, sometimes spotted with red; loins more sensitive; skin 
very tight; violent, hollow, convulsive cough; pulse at the jaw weak, rising 
to go or 100; dung scanty and hard, sometimes nearly black; urine light- 
colored; wind-puffs on the back and loins; fever worse in the evening; in 
cows, the milk is stopped and the udder shriveled; tail extended straight or 
strikes the side; the animal looks at the side; if vigorous, he is violent; if 
feeble, he shakes his head and grinds his teeth. About the tenth day there 
are great weakness and thinness; running eyes, the tears forming a crust; 
white, sticky discharge from the nose; tongue relaxed; loss of cud; dung 
watery, and forcibly discharged; hind parts greatly swollen; breath very 
offensive. Four or five days later one will see a gray, corrosive and offen- 
sive discharge from the nose, eyes and mouth; skin of the mouth dried up, 
that of the body peeling off; cold extremities; quickened breath; dung 
watery and bloody, passing involuntarily and nearly constantly; general 
stupor and loss of feeling; death following three days later; or the symp- 
toms in favorable cases decline daily, recovery not being complete, however, 
for several weeks. 
TREATMENT.—Give bryonia for heat, or coldness with shivering; 
drowsiness; loss of appetite and strength; constipation; short, difficult 
breathing; loose cough; offensive breath. Mercurius is needed for moist 
tongue; heat; thirst; red eyes; discharge from nose and eyes; swollen and 
sore nose; pain in belly; difficult swallowing; discharges frém the bowels 
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