Diseases of the Respiratory Organs. 79 



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

 the body alternately hot and cold. In twenty-four hours 

 aU 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 urine 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 Plague but is rarely contagioiis. 



Treatment. Clear out the bowels by a laxative (olive 

 on and laudanum), following this up by slight^ stimulat- 

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

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

 ]nate 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 

 shced or pulped roots allowed. 



SOEE-THEOAT. 



This may be confined to the larynx or upper end of the 

 wiadpipe (laryngitis), or the pharynx or membranous 

 pouch through which air and food both pass at the back 

 of the mouth (pharyngitis), or the whole may be iavolved 

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

 connected with specific diseases (croup, diphtheria, ia- 

 iluenza, strangles, distemper and purpurea). 



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

 of nasal catarrh, Bots in the throat may cause it id 

 horses. 



