IvARYNGlTlS IN SHEEP. 



Infrequency. Causes, damp lands, storms, close buildings, clipping. 

 Symptoms, cough, sneezing, discharge, snuffling, oral breathing, tender 

 throat. Treatment, ventilation, warm water vapor, sulphur dioxide, salines. 



Sore throat is fortunately even more rare than in the larger 

 ruminants. It occurs chiefly when this animal, constituted to 

 feed on the dainty grasses of the dry mountain side, is kept on 

 cold, marshy ground and exposed to frequent cold, wet blasts. 

 Sheep suffer also from hot, close, filthy buildings in winter and 

 from unseasonable clipping. 



The symptoms are frequent coughing and sneezing, running 

 from the nose, working of the jaws, and breathing through the 

 open mouth as being easier than through the plugged nostrils. 

 The larynx is tender and may be swollen. 



Treatm,ent is usually confined to ventilation and cleansing of 

 the fold, frequent fumigations with water vapor from the spout 

 of a boiling kettle, and with sulphur fumes, and giving tepid 

 farinaceous gruels or mashes containing sulphate of soda in the 

 daily proportion of two pounds to each hundred head of sheep. 

 Salammoniac may be given in food or drinking water. 



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