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follows chloroform anaesthesia; inhalation of smoke or irritant 

 gases ; regurgitation of food when in a comatose condition as in milk 

 fever. May follow tracheotomy operation. 



Give the diagnostic symptoms, prevention and treatment of inhalation 

 pneumonia. 



Fevei, anorexia, cough, bronchial rales, dyspnoea, fetid odor to 

 the expired air, mucopurulent nasal discharge containing shreds of 

 necrotic tissue ; dulness in the lower part of the thorax. 



Prevention: Guard against causative factors. Be careful in 

 drenching and see that no part of the medicine enters the trachea. 

 Don't drench cows with milk fever, nor horses with tetanus, pharyn- 

 gitis or other conditions in which there is danger of inhalation of 

 the fluid. 



Treatment: Antiseptic inhalations of the vapor or eucalyptus, 

 tar, carbolic acid or turpentine. Intratracheal irrigation with a 

 1 per cent, solution of hydrogen peroxide in a normal salt solution. 

 Give stimulants and antipyretics. 



What domestic animal is most susceptible to bronchial asthma? Give 

 causes, symptoms and treatment for this disease. 



The dog is most subject to bronchial asthma. 



Causes: Nervous origin, reflexly from pneumogastric irritation 

 due to digestive disorders. The muscle fibres of the bronchi contract 

 and narrow the lumen, thus bringing on paroxysms of coughing. 



Symptoms: Obesity, sluggishness, paroxysmal cough and 

 dyspnoea. Usually have digestive disorders. 



Treatment : Antispasmodics per rectum or subcutem ; cathartics ; 

 dietary restrictions to lessen obesity. 



What animals suffer from strongylus rufescens? Name the disease 

 produced and the symptoms. 

 The sheep and goat. 



The disease is variously known as verminous bronchitis, bron- 

 chial strongylosis, hoose, husk and paper skin disease. 



Symptoms: Occurs enzootically ; loss of appetite, unthriftiness, 

 emaciation, fever, dyspnoea, fits of coughing, convulsions, anaemia 

 and emaciation. 



What is the treatment for verminous bronchitis in calves? 



Inhalations of oil of eucalyptus and turpentme, m a vapor of 

 steam. Intratracheal injection of 15 to 20 c.c. of a 5 per cent, 

 solution of creolin in olive oil. Give stimulants and nourishing food. 



