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Treatment. — ^The patient should be kept in a light, clean, 

 well ventilated place and every attention given the hygiene 

 of the skin. -The horse should be covered with a light 

 blanket and the legs, if cold, rubbed and wrapped in soft 

 bandages. If the dyspnea is marked an oil of mustard 

 infriction (1 to 12) should be applied to the chest. The food 

 should be laxative (bran, oats, grass, carrots). The bowels 

 should be kept open by using Carlsbad salts. If the cough 

 is dry and painful, inhalants (camphor, tm-pentine, or 

 creolin) may be administered. Of value in dry bronchitis 

 is temperate, moist air which may be created with a spray 

 or placing water in buckets in the stable. Tartar emetic 

 combined with heroin is of some use as an expectorant 

 and to allay distressing cough. The following prescription 

 is suggested. 



If the cough is troublesome treat as indicated in laryngitis. 

 Intratracheal injections are of little value as the fluid does 

 not reach beyond the larger bronchi. If the accumulation 

 of liquid exduate is excessive a hypodermic of atropin (gr. J) 

 will temporarily arrest the discharge and dyspnea. 



Chronic bronchitis is usually incurable. Expectorants, 

 diuretics and sedatives often used combined may tempor- 

 arily alleviate the symptoms. (For details see Heaves.) 



VERMINOUS BRONCHITIS. 



Ltjng Worm Plague. 



Definition. — ^A form of bronchitis due to the presence of 

 palisade worms in the air tubes. There is usually associated 

 with it bronchopneumonia. 



Occurrence. — The disease is very common in all countries 

 and assumes the form of an enzootic causing great losses 

 among sheep, cattle and more rarely swine. Horses and 



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