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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, turpentine, 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. 



I?— Heroini gr- viij 



F. E. hyoscyami or belladonnse ... Sj 



Ant. et potassi tart. ... . . 5iv 



Syrupi ... . . . q- s- Oj 



Sig. — One ounce every two hours. 



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 exudate is excessive a hypodermic of atropin (gr. i) 



. will temporarily arrest the discharge and dyspnea. 



Chronic bronchitis is usually incurable. Expectorants, 

 diuretics and sedatives often used combined may tempo- 

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



VERMINOUS BRONCHITIS. 



Lung-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 

 asses are rarely affected. The lung-worm plague is most 

 apt to follow after wet summers and among animals kept 

 in swampy pastures or lands subject to overflow. Outbreaks 

 have occurred,, however, among stabled sheep. 



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