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THE FARMER’S
VETERINARY ADVISER
A GUIDE TO THE
PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE
IN DOMESTIC.ANIMALS
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By JAMES LAW
Professor of Veterinary Science in Cornell Unives
land and Agricultural Soctety of Scotland
nary Surgeons of Great Britain ESN ousultinge Veterinartan to the New
York Agricultural Society; Member of the American Public
flealth Association » Former Professor in the Albert Vet.
ertnary College, London, and the New Vetere.
wary Coliege, Edinburgh; Author of
General and Descriptive Anat-
omy of the Domestic
Animals, ete.
sity ; Veterinary Alumnus of the High-
Menzer of the Royal C. ollege af Vetert-
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
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PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
1876
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PREFACE.
This work is especially designed to supply the need of
the busy American farmer who can rarely avail of the ad-
vice of a scientific veterinarian. ‘The Author is deeply sen-
sible of the low estimate placed upon Veterinary Medicine
and Surgery in the United States, and of the necessity of
educating the public up to a better appreciation of its
value. We have a property in live stock estimated at
$1,500,000,000, and rapidly increasing in value, consisting
of at least six different genera of mammals, besides birds,
and therefore affording an almost unlimited field for the
practical exercise of humanity, political economy and
scientific research in the pursuit of Veterinary Medicine.
In the Old World millions are saved yearly to each of the
Western European Nations in the exclusion and extinction
of animal plagues, and many instances can be adduced of
an intelligent veterinary supervision saving at the rate of
$30,000 per annum on a stud of 400 horses. But in the
Western Hemisphere, apart from the larger cities, the
great pecuniary interest in live stock is largely at the
mercy of ignorant pretenders whose barbarous surgery is
only equaled by their reckless and destructive drugging.
The constantly recurring instances of absolute and painful
poisoning, and cruel and injurious vivisections practiced
under the name of remedial measures are almost sickening
to contemplate. To give the stock owner such informa-
iv Preface.
tion as will enable him to dispense with the unprofitable
and perilous services of such pretenders, and to apply
rational means of cure when he happens to be beyond the
reach of the accomplished veterinarian, is the aim of this
book, and this it is confidently hoped it will accomplish
for all who will intelligently study its pages.
To secure this object and yet to place the book within
the reach of all, it was necessary to sacrifice all extended
discussion of diseased processes, and questions in pathol-
ogy, and therefore the reader who may discover deviations
from current opinions is requested to suspend his decision
until he has consulted the Author’s larger work, in which
the reasons for these positions will be given.
With this view of still further condensing the work, the
doses of medicines for the different animals are rarely
given in the text, but one or more agents are named as ap-
plicable to every distinct stage or phase of the disease and
species of patient, and the reader must turn to the list of -
drugs given at the end to find the amount required for
each animal. In doing this he must note particularly for
what purpose the agent is given and select the dose ac-
cordingly, as the effect of large doses is usually essentially
different from that of small ones. Thus common salt given
in large doses to cattle is purgative and reducing, while in
small ones it is alterative and tonic. Sulphur in large
doses is laxative but in small ones alterative, expectorant
and diaphoretic. Oil of turpentine in large doses is
purgative, diuretic and vermifuge, in small ones stimulant.
and antispasmodic. Attention must also be given to the
age and size of the patient as more fully set forth in the
Appendix.
Illustrations have been freely introduced to render the
text more lucid, and, being selected from those prepared
for the Author’s larger work, may be implicitly relied on.
Be Cae eee. V
In the list of contagious diseases are included not only
those that are habitually developed on American soil and
those already introduced from abroad, but also such as
prevail in Europe, and are liable at any time to be brought
into our midst by importation. It is no less imperative
that the American farmer should be forewarned of pesti-
lences that threaten him from abroad, than of those that
beset him at home. For all such affections the principles
that should guide us in preventing and extinguishing the
disease are concisely but clearly set forth.
All the important parasites are introduced and their
conditions of life and individual metamorphoses in and
out of the bodies of domestic animals referred to, as well
as their migrations from man to animals and from animals
to man wherever such exists. The vast importance of
animal parasites is only beginning to be realized in con-
nection with their frightful ravages in countries (England,
Australia, Buenos Ayres, Egypt, Abyssinia, Iceland, India,
ete.,) into which they have been introduced or where they
have been allowed to increase unchecked, and a concise
statement of their forms, habits and results is therefore
imperatively necessary for the protection of the stock
owner. This subject has accordingly been brought up to
the date of present observations, and though short enough
for the perusal of the busiest it will furnish a sound basis
for the limitation and destruction of each of these noxious
pests.
JAMES LAW,
Cornell University.
Irwaca, May, 1876.
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CONTENTS.
CONTAGIOUS AND Epizootic DIsEAsEs,
DISINFECTION,
PARASITES,
DIETETIC AND CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES,
DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS, -
GENERAL DISEASES OF Bonzs, JOINTS AND MUSCLEs,
SpecraL DISEASES OF BoNES, JOINTS AND MUSCLES,
HEART, -
BLOOD-VESSELS AND LYMPHATICS,
DIGESTIVE ORGANS,
LIvER, =
PANCREAS AND SPLEEN,
URINARY ORGANS,
GENERATIVE ORGANS,
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LET
125
182
199
201
218
Mammary GLANDS (UDDER AND TEATS), 236
EYE, - -
NERVOUS SYSTEM,
SKIN, - -
DISEASES OF THE Foot, - -
DISEASED GROWTHS, - =
APPENDIX, DruGs AND DosES, -
INDEX,
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293
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CHAPTER I.
CONTAGIOUS AND EPIZOOTIC DISEASES.
Their importance and classification. Disinfection. Horse-pox. Cow-
pox. Sheep-pox. Goat-pox. Swine-pox. Dog-pox. Bird-pox. Aph-
thous fever, foot and mouth disease. Rinderpest, Russian cattle-plague.
Lung-fever of cattle, contagious pleuro-pneumonia. Strangles. Influenza.
Typhoid or bilious fever of horses. Distemper of dogs and cats. Malignant
(Asiatic) cholerain animals. Intestinal fever in swine, hog-cholera. Texan
fever incattle. Canine madness. Malignant anthrax. Glanders and farcy.
Venereal disease of solipeds. Tuberculosis, consumption.
These are among the most important of the whole
range of diseases of animals, beg the most destructive
to the animals themselves and in many cases to man, and
being at the same time, as a rule, preventible by a rigid
adherence to sanitary laws. Of their devastations we
have the most appalling accounis in the records of antiq-
uity as well asin recent times. in the time of Moses they
ravaged Egypt until, says the record, “‘all the cattle of
Egypt died ;” nor was man spared, for ‘‘boils and blains”
broke out on man and beast.—lMxr. LX. 3. At the siege
of Troy the Grecian army was decimated by a similar in-
fliction, animals and men perishing in a common destruc-
tion.—Iliad. So it has been down through the ages, the
great extension of the plagues being usually determined
2 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser.
by general wars and the accumulation of cattle drawn
from all sources, (infected and sound), into the commis-
sariat parks. In the first half of the eighteenth century,
it is estimated that 200,000,000 head of cattle perished in
Europe in connection with the Austrian wars. These
plagues again entered Italy in 1793 with the Austrian
troops and in three years carried off 3,000,000 to 4,000,000
cattle in that peninsula. More recently rapid railroad
and steamboat traffic and extended commerce have taken
the place of war in favoring their diffusion. Free trade
between England and the Continent since 1842 has cost
the former $450,000,000 in thirty years, and as much as
$40,000,000 in 1865-6 during the prevalence of the Rinder-
pest. A similar importation cost Egypt 300,000 head of
cattle (nearly the whole stock of the country), in 1842,
and others have caused ruinous but unestimated losses in
Australia, Cape of Good Hope, and South America. On
the other hand, some of the most exposed countries of
Europe, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein,
Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, and Switzerland have long kept
clear of these plagues by the simple expedient of excluding
all infected animals or their products, and promptly
stamping out the disease by the slaughter of the sick, fol-
lowed by thorough disinfection, when they have been acci-
dentally introduced. Exclusively breeding districts, in
Spain, Portugal, Normandy, and the Scottish Highlands,
into which no strange cattle are ever imported, also keep
clear of nearly all of these destructive pestilences.
Tt is unquestionable that the animal plagues are propa-
gated, in Western Europe and America, only by the dis-
ease germs produced in countless myriads in the body of
a diseased animal and conveyed from that to the healthy.
it follows that the destruction of the infected subjects
and the thorough disinfection of the carcass, manure,
buildings, etc., is the most economical treatment of all the
more fatal forms of contagious disease in live stock. For
the less fatal forms, the most perfect separation and seclu-_
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sion, and the thorough disinfection of all with which they
have come in contact is still imperative.
To the first class of exotic maladies belong : Smaill-pox,
in sheep and birds ; the lung-fever or contagious pleuro-pneu-
mona of cattle; the Rinderpest or cattle-plague ; the ma-
lignant disease of the generative organs in solipeds ; and ma-
lignant cholera in all animals. These demand separation,
destruction and disinfection. To the second or less fatal
class of exotic maladies belongs: the Aphthous fever or foot
and mouth disease. -'This demands seclusion and disinfec-
tion.
- Beside these maladies, that are foreign to our soil and
which are not to be feared except as the result of impor-
tation from abroad and subsequent transmission by conta-
gion, there is a very important class which are apparently
generated in America and thereafter spread by contagion.
Among these may be named: Glanders and farcy, canine
madness, contagious foot-rot, tuberculosis, malignant anthrax,
Texan-fever, wmtestinal fever of swine or hog-cholera, influ-
enza, strangles, canine distemper, and perhaps the variola or
pox of horse, cow, goat, pig, and dog. All of these down to
antestinal fever of swine, like foreign contagious affections,
demand separation, and disinfection, with destruction or not
of the diseased, according to the severity and diffusibility
of the particular malady. The remainder, from influenza
onward, are either too mild to warrant such measures, or
too easily spread to be satisfactorily controlled by them.
It is beyond the purpose of this work to enter into the
special legislative enactments necessary to prevent the
importation of foreign plagues, or the spread of native
or imported ones. Tor this the reader is referred to the
author’s larger work. A few words on disinfection are,
however, indispensable.
DISINFECTION.
The first and main object in disinfection is to secure
periect cleanliness. From the buildings, cars, loading-
4 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser.
banks, ships, quays, yards, manure-pits, drains, cess-pools,
harness, clothing, utensils, etc., all decaying organic mat- .
ter should be removed, by scraping, washing, emptying,
etc., as such decomposing organic matter is the food which
sustains and preserves the disease germs out of the body.
Even the water and air must be carefully seen to, smee in
close places they are usually charged with invisible par-
ticles of organic matter in a state of decay, the most
suitable field for the growth of contagious principles.
These, too, tend to purity themselves in a free circulation
of air, and ventilation may be largely relied upon for this
purpose, unless the deleterious supplies are too abundant
from some adjacent putrid accumulation, as dung-heaps,
cess-pools, leaky drains, or soil saturated with filth. Pu-
rity of the surroundings kills many contagious elements on
the principle of starvation.
Of agents reputed to be disinfectants, some act merely
by changing the physical condition of organic mat-
ter, without any abstraction from, or addition to its con-
stituents. ‘Thus, heating to the boiling point (212° F.), co-
agulates albuminous matters and destroys infectious prop-
erties generally. But it must be prolonged for a variable
time according to the size of the object to allow of the
heat penetrating to all parts alike. Clothing may be
heated in an oven to 300° F., or safer, boiled, and even
the prolonged application of hot transparent steam di-
rected from a hose, upon wood-work, etc., previously well
cleaned, is found very effectual. Some poisons, like that
of 'Texas-fever, are destroyed by freezing, while others are
unatfected.
Other disinfectants act by changing the chemical re-
lations of organic matter, and hence of contagious princi-
ples, by uniting with them to form new compounds, by ab-
stracting some of their constituent elements or by adding
a new one. Thus the alotropic state of oxygen called
ozone, produced abundantly during thunder-storms, is sup-
posed to be one of nature’s most potent disinfectants, act-
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Contagious and Epizootic Diseases. a.
ing by hastening the oxidation of organic matter. Yet, at
times, its excess seems to be without effect as in the in-
fluenza of horses in 1872. Camphor and many of the odor-
ous essential oils are supposed to be of some slight use by
reason of their developing ozone.
Burning is an effectual mode of disinfecting organic
matter, old rotten wood-work, clothing, fodder, manure,
ete. It may even be used on the air by moving a plumb-
ers charcoal-stove from place to place over the entire in-
fected building. It may be equally used over the open-
ings of drains, or as a lamp in the ventilating outlets of in-
fected buildings.
. Chlorine, set free from common salt, by adding oil of
vitriol and a little black oxide of manganese, is an excel-
lect disinfectant of the air, but can only be used in vaca-
ted buildings, and is most effectual in a full light.
Huchlorine, a compound of chlorine and oxygen, may be
obtained by adding, at frequent intervals, a little chlorate
ot potassa to a glass of strong muriatic acid. It may be
used in occupied buildings.
Sulphurous acid is one excellent disinfectant for the
air, and can easily be produced in any amount by burning
flowers of sulphur on a slip of paper laid on an iron
shovel. Like chlorine, it is most efficient in daylight. in
occupied buildings it may be burned carefully pinch by
pinch without inconveniencing the stock.
Carbolic acid may also be sed in occupied buildings,
being allowed to evaporate from shallow basins, alone or
mixed with ether or alcohol, from saturated rugs hung up
at intervals, or from cloth-lined ventilating inlets, kept
saturated with the acid, or, finally, ii may be diffused
through the air of a building by an atomizer. Carbolic
and cresylic acids may also be “used for disinfecting solids
and liquids, being poured into drains or Shea iade on the
floors, walls and einer parts of the building. For the lat-
ter purpose, the strong acid may be diluted with one
hundred times its weight of water. The cheap impure
6 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser.
acid is usually preferred for dung-heaps, yards and other
outside purposes, but is disagreeable indoors. Coal-tar
and wood-tar, from their contained carbolic acid and allied
products, are also good for out-door uses.
The following are especially applicable to solids and
liquids :
Chloride of lime sprinkled on floors, yards, dung-heaps,
etc., or applied to walls, wood-work, etc., or poured into
drains, as a solution of dlb. to a gallon of water.
Chloride of zinc is equally efficient but more expensive,
and chloride of aluminium (choralum) is somewhat less po-
tent.
Sulphate of tron (copperas) is one of the most efficient
and cheapest disinfectants for drains, manure, floors,
yards, etc., and may be applied either in fine powder or in
solution.
The sulphates of copper and zinc and perchloride of tron
are efficient but much more expensive.
Saturated solutions of caustic potassa and soda are satis-
factory for wood-work, harness and utensils, but they are
useless if diluted. ime is useful in graves by absorbing
the water and uniting with the organic debris, but is very
unsatisfactory as a general disinfectant.
Permanganate of potassa promptly changes putrefying
organic matter rendering it sweet and wholesome, but itis
questionable how far 1t can destroy living organic germs
of which many of the contagious principles are probably
composed. The same remarks apply to charcoal, animal
and vegetable, and to earth, especially that containing a
considerable proportion of clay or marl.
HORSE-POX.
This is probably identical with cow-pox, being indis-
tinguishable when inoculated on men or cattle. It most
frequently attacks the limbs, but may affect the face or
other parts of the body. There is usually some little
fever which, however, passes unnoticed by the owner.
Contagious and Epizootic Diseases. 7
Then swelling, heat and tenderness supervene commonly
in a heel, and firm nodules form, increasing to one-third
or one-half an inch in diameter, the hair bristles up, and
the skin reddens unless previously colored. On the ninth
to the twelfth day, a limpid fluid oozes from the surface
and agelutinates the hairs-in yellowish scabs, on the re-
moval of which a red, raw depression is seen with the
scab fixed in its centre. In three or four days the secre-
tion ceases, the scabs dry up and the parts heal sponta-
neously. It is easily transmitted from horse to horse, to
man or to the cow. No treatment is required.
COW-POX.
This is the same disease appearing in the cow. There
is a preliminary slight fever, usually overlooked, succeeded
by some diminution and increased coagulability of the
milk and the appearance of the pox on the udder and
teats. The udder is hot and tender for a day or two, then
little pale-red nodules, about as big as peas appear,
erowing to three-fourths to one inch in breadth by the
eighth or tenth day, acquiring liquid contents, and often
a central depression on the summit. The liquid in each
pock is contained in several distinct sacs and cannot be
all extracted without a succession of punctures on differ-
ent parts. The liquid, at first clear, changes to yellowish
white (pus) and soon dries up, the whole forming a hard
crust which is gradually detached. On the teats the blis-
ters are early ruptured and raw sores form, often proving
very obstinate, and even leading to inflammation of the
udder, abortion, or death.
Treatment is scarcely ever demanded further than to
obviate sores on the teats. A mild laxative of Epsom
salts is, however, usually desirable. The teats may be
smeared with an ointment formed of an ounce each of
spermaceti and almond oil and half a drachm of myrrh.
Milking tubes may be necessary to avoid injury by draw-
ing the teats.
8 ' The Farmer’s Veterinary Adviser.
In many localities the disease appears to all newly-.
calved heifers on particular farms, in which case it would -
be well to purity the barns by a thorough disinfection.
SHEEP-POX.
Though unknown in America, there is no improbability
of this disease reaching us, through importations of
sheep, hides or wool. Like small-pox of man, it is only
known as a contagious disease. The incubation or latent
period of the poison after it enters the system, is from
three to six days in summer, and from ten to twelve in
winter. Then there is loss of appetite, dullness, dropping
behind the flock, and stiffness of the hind parts. This is
followed by trembling, increased temperature, very mani-
fest on the bare and delicate parts of the skin on which
the eruption usually takes place, loss of appetite and
rumination, costiveness, red, weeping eyes, a discharge
from the nose, and the appearance of red patches inside
the limbs and along the abdomen. Soon minute red
points appear and increase to papules with a firm base,
extending into the deeper parts of the ski. ‘These are
flat on the summit, (rarely pointed or indented), and be-
come pale or clear in the centre, from the effusion of lq-
uid beneath the scurf skin, with a red margin. With the
appearance of the eruption, the fever moderates, but in-
creases again in three or four days with the development
and irritability of the vesicles. These may remain indi-
. vidually distinct (discrete) mm which case the attack is mild,
or they may run together into extensive patches (conflu-
ent) and the result is likely to be serious. The pocks will
even appear on the digestive or respiratory mucous mMem-
brane. The eruption passes through the same course of
exudation, suppuration, drying and dropping off as in
cow-pox. The duration of the disease is three weeks or
a month. The mortality in the milder forms may not
exceed seven per one hundred, in the more severe it
may destroy almost the whole flock. But the losses of
Contagious and Hpizootic Diseases. 9
lambs by abortion, of wool, sight, hearing, hoofs, digits,
flesh, and general vigor often render recoveries anything
but unmixed blessings.
Treatment.—Keep in cool, dry, well-aired and littered
sheds, shelter from rain, and feed roots, or, if very weak,
oat and bean meal gruels, with a drachm of saltpetre to
each-sheep. Common salt may be supplied to be licked,
and the drinking water may be slightiy acidulated with
vinegar. ‘The bowels should be opened by injections of
milk-warm soapsuds, or 3oz. sulphate of soda if necessary.
Avoid heating agents. In the advanced stages support
by quinia, gentian, nitric acid, and nutritious gruels, even
animal broths. The pustules may be treated with the
ointment advised for cow-pox, or, if unhealthy, with weak
solutions of chloride of zine.
Prevention.—Nothing’ short of general infection will
justify the treatment of this disease. It should be ex-
cluded from our country by the most stringent supervision
over the importation of sheep and their products, and
when it does appear should be promptly stamped out by
the destruction and disinfection of the sick and the pu-
rification of all with which they have come in contact.
Inoculation as a measure of prevention is unwarrantable
except in the case of wide-spread infection, a contingency
which ought never to arise in this country.
GOAT-POX.
This is a rare and mild affection with an eruption on
the udder and teats closely resembling that of Cow-pow.
It has been thought to be spontaneous in the goat but is
known to be derived from sheep suffering from Sheep-poz.
Ti follows a mild course and requires the same care as Cow-
pox. Seclusion or destruction and disinfection, are, how-
ever, imperative when danger is likely to arise for sheep.
SWINE-POX.
This is more frequent than Goat-Poxw. Itis communica-
10 The Farmers Veterinary Adviser.
bletomanand goat. Young pigs are thought to be most li-
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able. The eruption appears inside the forearm and thighs
and is usually preceded by considerable fever. It is discrete
or confluent like Sheep-pox and the severity corresponds. -
The duration of the mild forms is twelve to fifteen days.
Treatment is similar to that of Sheep-pox and the same
precautions should be taken to prevent its dissemination.
DOG-POX.
These animals sometimes contract Small-pox or Sheep-pox
and have been supposed to have their own specific form
besides. The young suffer most frequently and severely.
There is the usual preliminary fever with an eruption on
the sides and belly, passing from pimples to vesicles and
pustules, and finally drying up into crusts which drop off.
The eruption may be discrete or confluent, the latter being
very fatal. Similar preventive measures are demanded as
in the other forms of pow.
BIRD-POX.
Birds seem susceptible to different forms of variola, hay-
ing contracted the disease from man In some cases, and in
others conveyed it to the sheep. Chickens failed to con-
tract Cow-pow in the experiments of Roll and myself. It
has proved very fatal in chickens, but very slightly so in
pigeons, turkeys and geese. The eruption appears mainly
on the head, under the wing, on the tongue, or in the
pharynx. In fatal cases death ensued in four or five days.
Treatment would rarely be desirable, the great point being
to stamp out the malady by destroying the diseased and
disinfecting the place.
APHTHOUS FEVER.—FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.
A contagious eruptive fever, attacking cloven-footed ani-
nals and communicable to other warm-blooded animals,
including even man. Its special feature is the eruption
of blisters in the mouth, on the udder and teats and on the
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Contagious and Epizootic Diseases. uF
feet. It is only known as communicated by contagion,
whether in western Europe, in Great Britain and Ireland,
where 14 was introduced in 1839-42, or in North and
South America, which it reached m 1870 by imported
stock. Like the other animal plagues it follows in the
track of great armies and in the channels of commerce.
The contagion does not readily spread on the air, a river
or common road being often sufficient to lmit it, but no
poison is more certainly transmitted by contact, direct or
through the medium of human beings, tame or wild ani-
mals, fodder, litter, manure, clothing, drinking-troughs,
etc., etc. Mulk is one of the most frequent sources of con-
tagion to pigs, dogs, and even to infants, producing the
most dangerous intestinal irritation and diarrhea.
Symptoms.—Lhe poison may remain tatent in the sys-
tem for one or two days, or, in exceptional cases, perhaps
as many as six. Then there is roughness of the coat or
shivering, increased temperature, dry muzzle, hot red
mouth, teats, and interdigital spaces, lameness, inclination
to lie, and shrinking from the hand in milking. The sec-
ond or third day blisters arise, on any part of the whole
interior of the mouth one-half to one inch in breadth, or on
the teats and between the digits about one-half inch across.
Saliva drivels from the mouth, collecting in froth around
‘the lips, and a loud smacking is made with the lips and
tongue. Swine champ the jaws. Sheep and swine suffer
more especially in the feet, often losing the hoofs or even
the digital bones, a contingency not unknown in neglected
cattle.
Among the consequences may be named the loss of
milk, inflamed udders, blind teats, a habit of vicious kick-
ing, abortions, permanent lameness, and a lengthened in-
capacity for the dairy, for feeding or work. TH well cared
for, the disease passes in fifteen days, leaving no ill conse-
quences, excepting the poison hidden away in the building.
The average loss in flesh is $5 to $10; in dairy cows, it is
much more.
12 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser.
Treatment.—A. laxative (Epsom salts); astrmgent
mouth-wash (Borax and tincture of myrrh, 1 oz. each;
water 1 qt., or carbolic acid 1 dr., honey 2 oz., vinegar 1
pt., water 1 pt.); a lotion for the teats (carbolic acid 4 dr.,
glycerine 10 oz.) ; and a dressing for the feet (oil of vitriol
1 oz., water 4 0z., to be applied with a feather after clean-
ing the space between the hoofs by drawing a cloth
through it). After dressing, tie up the feet in a tar band-
age. The hind feet are easily dressed if two men raise
each separately with a long stout fork handle passed
in front of the hock. In dressing the feet, all detached
horn should be removed and a poultice applied if inflam-
mation runs high. Soft cold mashes or thinly sliced or
pulped roots are the best food throughout.
Prevention. importation of diseased animals should be
sufiiciently guarded against. Diseased stock should be
rigidly secluded from all but the necessary attendants who
ought to be disinfected on leaving the enclosure. Wild ani-
mals, even birds, should be excluded. Every place where
the diseased have been, should be closed for a winter or
disinfected, the milk should be buried in a safe place, or
boiled and given to pigs, manure, infected litter, etc., may
be burned, or disinfected, removed and plowed under by
horses. No diseased animal should be moved until fifteen
days after full recovery, and it should first be sponged
over with a carbolic acid wash.
RUSSIAN CATTLE PLAGUE. RINDERPEST.
A contagious fever of cattle communicable to other rumi-
nants and characterized by a general congestion of the
mucous membranes, but, above all, those of the stomach
and intestines, and an excessive growth and shedding of
the superficial layers of cells on the skin and mucous mem-
branes. It is only propagated by: contagion, at least, out
of the Kirghiz Steppes and Kherson district in Southern
Russia, but spreads further on the air than Aphthous Fever.
Symptoms. Incubation lasts about two days until the
Contagious and Epzootic Diseases. 13
temperature of the body is elevated, or four days until
the appearance of outward signs of illness. By this time
the mouth, inside the lips, on the dental pad of the upper
jaw or around the gums of the lower front teeth, shows
minute white elevations, like the aphtha of the mouths of
children, calves and lambs suffermg from thrush (muguet).
This may be exceedingly slight and transient but is most
characteristic. The other mucous membranes, (eye, vulva,
rectum, nose,) show a more or less dark flush, and concre-
tions may appear around these and on other parts of the
skin, especially the teats. These are solid aggregations
of epithelial cells, not vesicles nor pustules. In twenty-
four hours they undergo fatty softening and are easily de-
tached, leaving small pink erosions, and by the sixth day
a great part of the mouth and muzzle may have become
raw, and the surrounding mucous membrane of a deep
red. About the fourth day, the skin feels greasy, and
dullness, and impaired appetite and rumination appear.
In cows the milk is diminished, richer in cream, and even
slightly coagulable. Urine becomes scanty and of a high
color and density. These signs increase until the sixth
day, when the mouth is often raw, saliva drivels, appetite
and rumination are gone, bowels relaxed, the dung
passed with much straining and pain, the everted gut
appearing of a deep red or port-wine hue, the ears are
drawn back, head pendent, eyes half-closed and watery,
back arched and often insensible to pinching, abdominal
muscles tense and resistant, and there is a peculiar check
in the act of expiration, the breath bemg suddenly ar-
rested with a flapping sound and concussion of the entire
body, to be exhaled a second or two later with a grunting
noise. Sighing and whisthng sounds are heard in the
chest and it becomes unnaturally drum-like to percussion.
A sudden lowering of temperature is usually the precur-
sor of death, which happens on the seventh or eighth day.
Nervous symptoms appear in some outbreaks, with de-
lirium, butting, shivering, and tenderness of the loins,
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while in the milder cases the peculiar eruption may be
almost altogether confined to the skin.
The symptoms in other ruminants are essentially the
same as in the ox, and in the peccary there is sufficient
resemblance for recognition.
The mortality out of its native habitat usually amounts
to forty per cent. and upward.
Treatment. The treatment of this plague should be
legally prohibited under all circumstances. All the at-
tempts of the different schools of medicine and of em-
pizicism have only increased its ravages, while nations
and even countries and districts that have vigorously
stamped it out and excluded it have saved their property.
Prevention. The advent of this plague should be pre-
vented by a sufficient supervision of our ports and fron-
tiers and a quarantine of stock. If admitted, the victims
should be ruthlessly destroyed, deeply buried, and all
places and things with which they have come in contact
disinfected in the most perfect manner.
THE LUNG-FEVER OF CATTLE. CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEU-
MONIA.
A specific contagious fever of cattle, with extensive ex-
udations into the chest and lungs.
Like the other plagues already noticed, this is only
known im Europe and America as a contagious disease.
its importation into the different countries of Europe has
always been traceable to the imtroduction of diseased
beasts or their products. The assertion of the immortal
Haller, more than a century ago, that it is propagated by
contagion, has received the amplest confirmation in recent
times. It invaded Ireland in 1839-40 by Dutch cattle,
England in 1842 by Irish and Dutch cattle, Sweden and
Denmark in 1847 by English stock, and later again by
English and Dutch, Norway in 1860 by infected Ayrshires,
Oldenburg in 1858, and Schleswig in 1859, in each case
by Ayrshires, the Cape of Good Hope in 1854, Australia |
Contagious and Epizootic Diseases. 15
in 1858 by an English cow, Brooklyn, L. 1., in 1843 by a
Dutch cow, and again in 1850 by an English one, New
Jersey in 1847 by English stock, and Boston, Mass., by
Dutch cattle in 1859. In Sweden, Norway, Denmark,
Oldenburg, Schleswig, Massachusetts and New Jersey, it
was stamped out, in the last case by the importer, Mr.
Richardson, sacrificing his whole herd and voluntarily as-
suming the loss, but in the other places named it was leit
to itself and spread disastrously.
Symptoms. The period of latency of the poison in the
system is from four to six weeks, and in exceptional cases
perhaps two or three months or as short as ten days. In-
creased temperature of the body usually appears a week
or two before other symptoms. Then there is a slight
cough, erection of hair along the back, sometimes shiver-
ing and always tenderness of the back to pinching, the
animal crouching and groaning. Soon breathing and pulse
become accelerated, bowels costive, urine scanty and high-
colored, milk diminished, appetite impaired, rumination
irregular, nose alternately moist and dry, and legs and
horns cold and hot. I in the field, the sick leave the herd.
The cough increases in harshness, depth and painfulness,
and all the symptons are aggravated until the animal stands
in one posture, with head extended on the neck, mouth
open, and every breath accompanied by a loud moan.
From the earliest stages the ear applied to the sides of
the chest detects an absence of murmur over particular
parts of the lung, or lungs, with a line of crepitation (fine
crackling) around it, and occasionally rubbing, wheezing,
and other unnatural sounds. On percussion over the si-
lent parts the natural resonance is found to have given
place to dullness, and the animal winces and groans. Other
peculiar sounds may follow later, nto which we cannot en-
ter here, and exhausting liquid discharges from the bowels
and kidneys, tympanies and abortions are frequent results.
Death may take place early, from suffocation, when both
lungs are involved, or may be delayed six weeks or more.
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The percentage of deaths and permanent destruction to
health is fifty or sixty, or when all the more susceptible
animals have perished it may be reduced much lower.
Treatment. This disease is much more amenable to
treatment than Rinderpest, but to preserve the sick is no
less reprehensible, as the poison is more subtle, more dif-
fusible through the atmosphere, is hidden unsuspected
for a greater length of time in the body of its victim, and
when manifested is far more lable to be mistaken for other
diseases (pneumonia, pleurisy, bronchitis). No treatment
should ever be allowed, except in perfectly secluded build-
ings, far from roads, where no strange men or animals
can get access, and in a constantly disinfected atmosphere.
In the early stages, refrigerant and diuretic salts (liquor
of the acetate of ammonia, nitre, bisulphite of soda) with
aconite may be given; injections of warm water or mild
laxatives (Epsom salts) used to regulate the bowels, and
blisters applied to the sides of the chest (mustard and oil
of turpentine). Later, when prostration sets in, stimulants
(sweet spirits of nitre, wine, aromatic ammonia, etc.) and
tonics (gentian, cinchona, cascarilla, boneset, sulphate of
iron, or copper, mineral acids, etc.) are called for. Anti-
septics are useful, especially such as can be inhaled in the
air (sulphur fumes, carbolic acid vapor or spray) and thus
reach the seat of disease.
The hydropathic treatment, by a rug wrung out of |
water applied next the skin and covered by several dry
ones kept closely applied by elastic surcingles for an hour
and followed by a cold douche and active rubbing till
dry, has proved very successful, but demands intelligence,
enthusiasm and activity on the part of the attendants.
The pack is repeated as often as the temperature rises.
Prevention. Importation should only be allowed from
countries free from the plague, in ships that have carried
no suspected stock for at least three months, and after
inspection and, if thought necessary, quarantine, at the
port of entry. But the disease already exists in New
Contagious and Epizootic Diseases. 17
York, (Connecticut,) New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia and District of Columbia. This ought
to be rooted out by measures executed by the central gov-
ernment and defrayed out of the public treasury. Little
good must be looked for from isolated action by States,
counties, townships, or individual owners; the danger
threatens the entire country, and for the general safety ail
must pay. Itis absurd to expect the unfortunate possessor
of sick animals to beggar himself for the public good.
There should be destruction of the sick, partial remunera-
tion of the owners, thorough disinfection under professional
supervision, and the most perfect control and constant in-
spection of ali suspected herds and places until the malady
has been eradicated from the land. This is the most in-
sidious of all our animal plagues, the one which now most
urgently presses for active interference, and which, if neg-
lected, will bring a terrible retribution in the future.
Inoculation, as a preventive, like medical treatment, is
suicidal unless where a country is very generally infected.
STRANGLES. DISTEMPER IN YOUNG HORSES.
A specific fever of young solipeds usually attended with
swellings and formations of matter between the bones of
the lower jaw, or elsewhere in groups of lymphatic glands.
Causes. Karly age, change from field to stable, from
erass to dry feeding, from idleness to exciting work, the
irritation of teething, and, above all, change otf locality and
climate. Repeated attacks will occur in the same horse
under the influence of the last named cause. Expcsure
to cold and wet, impure air, sudden thaws, etc., contribute
to hasten its development. Lastly, contagion is a com-
mon cause, and, in some cases, the malady may even be
conveyed to man.
Symptoms. The disease is often preceded by a period
of unthriftiness, staring coat, loss of condition, dullness
and languor. Then there appear cough, redness of the
nasal membrane, and watery flow from the nose and eyes,
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slavering, accelerated breathing and pulse, costiveness,
scanty high-colored urine, and increased thirst. Soon a
swelling rises between the bones of the lower jaw, hot,
tender and uniformly rounded and smooth, at first hard
with soft, doughy margins, later soft and fluctuating in the
centre from the formation of matter. Water is often re-
turned from the nose in drinking and food dropped after
chewing. The throat may even be closed so as to make
breathing laborious, difficult and noisy or quite impossible.
With rupture of the abscess and escape of the matter,
relief is obtained and a steady recovery may usually be
counted on.
Trreguar Forms. The swelling may harden in place of
softening, and maintain the disease for an indefinite time,
or it may disappear and be followed by the formation of
matter in other and more vital organs. Thus matter may
form in the groups of lymphatic glands about the shoul-
der, groin, the roots of the lungs, the mesentery, the
brain, etc. Sometimes no swelling nor suppuration takes
place beyond the discharge from the nose while at others
a pustular eruption on the skin is the manifestation of the
disease.
The disease may be over in ten days, or, in cases of in-
dolent action in the swelling, it may be protracted for
months. If properly treated, the regular form generally
does well, but the crregular is fatal in proportion to the
vitality of the organ affected. In protracted cases and in
those subjected to impure air and weakening treatment.
dropsical and sanguineous swellings in the dependent parts
of the body (purpura hemorrhagica) is a frequent result.
Zreatment. Sustain the strength of the patient by
abundance of soft, nourishing mashes and pure air, and
promote the formation of matter between the jaws by fo-
mentations, poultices, and steaming of the nostrils. A
poultice may be applied by a square of calico with holes
for the ears and eyes, tied down the middle of the face
and sewed up a little at the chin to prevent any from
Contagious and Epizootic Diseases. 9
dropping out. Bran or oil meal may be used along with
hot water. Steaming may be done by feeding hot bran
mashes from a nose bag hung on the head. When matter
points it should be freely evacuated with the lancet, and
the poultices continued to complete the softening. If suf-
focation is threatened, the windpipe must be opened in
the middle of the neck and a tube inserted to breathe
through.
Medicine is rarely required. Yet costiveness may be
counteracted by warm water injections, and weakness by
stimulants (muriate and carbonate of ammonia) and tonics
gentian, columba, willow-bark). Complications must be
treated according to their nature.
INFLUENZA.
A specific epizootic fever of a low type associated with
inflammation of the respiratory mucous membrane, or less
frequently of other organs. It has prevailed at intervals
over different parts of the world in man, horses, dogs and
even cats.
Causes. Nothing can be definitely stated as to the pri-
mary cause of its development, as all pecular conditions
of soil, voleanic action, atmospheric electricity, erial
moisture or dryness, density or levity, season, tempera-
ture, winds, calms, ozone, and antozone fail to account
for its appearance. ‘The great American epizootic of 1872
was preceded and accompanied in Michigan by an excess
of ozone, but the excess did not determine its appearance
in other States, which 1t invaded by a gradual progress
and with a rapidity proportional to the celerity of com-
munication. Again insular and sequestrated places es-
eaped, as Prince Edward’s Island, (frozen out), Vancou-
vers Island, (quarantined), Key West, Hayti, St. Do-
mingo, Jamaica, La Paz, by the non-importation of
horses (Cuba suffered through imported American horses).
Jt stopped at Panama, where there is no horse traffic ow-
ine to the state of the country. (See the author’s report
to Government, and report of New York Board of Health).
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Symptoms. The disease comes on suddenly with ex-
treme weakness and stupor. There is often pendent
head, half-closed, lustreless eyes, great disinclination to
move, with swaying gait, and cracking joints. Appetite is
lost, mouth hot, clammy, bowels costive, urine scanty and
high-colored, pulse accelerated and weak (sometimes
hard), a cough, deep, painful and racking comes on, crep-
itation or harsh blowing sounds are heard in the chest,
and the membrane of the nose assumes a bright pink or
dull leaden hue. The ears and limbs are alternately cold
and hot, the hair rough, the skin tender and frequently
trembling.
Soon the nose discharges a white, yellowish, or greenish
matter, and the animal may recover, or an Increasingly
heavy breathing, depth and painfulness of cough, and
changed or absent respiratory sounds in the chest, with
dullness on percussion show that the lungs are seriously
involved. Thus there may be the symptoms of pneumonia,
pleurisy, bronchitis, hydrothorax, pericarditis, hydroperi-
cardium, etc. Clots sometimes form in the heart, modify-
ing the heart sounds and proving rapidly fatal.
In other cases the abdominal organs suffer, and with
great torpor, stupor, tension and tenderness of the abdom-
inal walls there are colicky pains, ardent thirst, coated
tongue, yellowness of the membranes of nose and eyes,
yellow or reddish urine, costive bowels and dung in pellets
thickly coated with mucus.
Sometimes rheumatic swelling and tenderness take place
in the muscles and joints of the limbs, and may even last
for months. At others, paralysis or delirium will ensue,
or, finally, severe inflammation of the eyes.
Treatment.. Overcome costiveness by injections of
warm water, or by one-third the usual doses of linseed oil or
aloes. Give mild febrifuge diuretics (liquor of acetate of
ammonia, spirit of nitrous ether,) with anodynes (extract
of belladonna), and when fever subsides or great prostra-
tion comes on, stimulants (nitrous ether, aromatic am-
Contagious and Epizootic Diseases. 21
monia, carbonate of ammonia,) and even tonics, (gentian
calumba, quassia). |
Counter-irritants (ammonia and oil, equal parts, mus-
tard, ete.,) may be used from the first to the throat, sides,
or abdomen according to the seat of the inflammation.
Soft mashes, roots, or green food, pure air, without
draughts, and warm clothing are essentials of treatment
throughout.
If the abdominal organs are the main seat of disease,
supplement the medicines above named by demulcents
(slippery elm, mallow, boiled linseed,) and anodynes
(opium, hydrocyanic acid,) with, in some cases, a gentle
laxative (clive oil). Nervous symptoms may demand wet
cloths to the head, blisters to the sides of the neck, purga-
tives, unless contra-indicated, and bromide of potassium.
The rheumatic complication must be treated like ordinary
rheumatism, with coichicum, propylamine, acetate of po-
tassa, turpentine, warmth, counter-irritants, etc.
TYPHOID, GASTRIC OR BILIOUS FEVER.
This strongly resembles the abdominal! form of influenza
and sometimes occurs in the same place at the same time.
Jt also appears independently in horses weakened by
shedding their coats in spring and autumn, in those kept
in a hot, close, impure and unwholesome atmosphere, fed
insufficiently or on badly-preserved, musty or otherwise
injured aliment, supplied with water containing an excess
of decomposing organic matter, fed irregularly, subjected
to overwork, etc. Finally it proves contagious in confined
insalubrious buildings, and, to a less extent, in those that
are wholesome and well aired. Some unknown generally
acting influence makes it more virulent at one season than
another.
Symptoms. 'There are a few days of dullness and lassi-
tude followed by the general signs of fever :—Staring coat,
shivering, alternate heat and coldness of the surface, rest-
lessness, hot dry mouth, and elevation of the internal tem-
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perature of the body. There is a yellowish tinge of the
mucous membranes, costiveness, colicky pains, full, tense,
tender belly, passage of a few dark, hard pellets of dung
covered with a mucous film, urine scanty, reddish and de-
positing a sediment, pulse rapid and weak, and there may
or may not be sore-throat, excited breathing and discharge
from the nose. In the more favorable cases, signs of
improvement are noticeable in eight or nine days, and a
perfect recovery is made. In the unfavorable, the pulse
becomes small, weak and rapid (eighty to ninety per min-
ute), the mouth hotter, more clammy and covered by yel-
lowish, brownish, or greenish blotches, the abdominal
walls more tender, the bowels more irritable, sometimes
with a fcetid diarrhoea, and the strength is rapidly ex-
hausted. The head is constantly pendent, the eye
sunken, the expression of the countenance stupid and .
haggard, and the stupor or insensibility may become so
ereat that pinching or even pricking of the skin may pass
unnoticed by the animal. Death usually takes place from
the tenth to the twentieth day.
Treatment. English veterinarians rely much on ealo-
mel, and with a firm full pulse, not too rapid, a general
warmth of surface and extremities, a bright eye, cheerful
countenance, whitish foetid dung, and much yellowness of
the eye, nose, or mouth, a few doses of calomel (10 grs.)
and opium (30 ers.), repeated twice daily, may be useful
in stimulating the liver and throwing off injurious agents
from the blood. But itis to be avoided when there is a
weak, rapid pulse and great prostration and debility, and
in no case should it be given over two or three days, or
until the system is saturated with the drug. Severe cos-
tiveness may be obviated by 2 or 3 drs. of aloes and a
drachm of calomel, or by a daily dose of 2 or 3 ozs. of
Glauber salts until relaxation occurs. Soft feeding and
copious injections of warm water must be continued to
maintain the bowels in a healthy state. A drachm each
of chlorate or nitrate of potassa and muriate of am-
Contagious and Epizootic Diseases. Zo
monia may be given three or four times daily with the
water drunk, or in case of great dullness and debility an
ounce of oil of turpentine, sulphuric ether, sweet spirits of
nitre, or carbonate of ammonia may be given as well.
Great tenderness of the belly may be met by persistent
hot fomentations, and mustard poultices, and 1f necessary
by half drachm doses of opium. Tympany is treated
by hand rubbing and by aromatic ammonia or oil of pep-
permint. During recovery 3 or 4 ozs. of tincture of gen-
tian or cinchona may be given twice daily with muriate of
iron and stimulants. Feed throughout on soft bran mashes,
sliced roots, boiled oats or barley, green grass, oil-cake,
etc., giving from the hand if necessary. Secure pure air
and water, cleanliness, warm clothing and general comfort
until restored to healtn.
CANINE DiSTEMPER.
A specific fever of the young domestic carnivora, affect-
ing the respiratory organs, and it may be the abdominal
viscera, the brain, the muscular system and joints, or the
skin. One attack usually protects from a second.
Causes. Connected, like strangles, with domestication,
it is most severe on pet dogs kept in hot, close rooms on
spiced food, or confined in. kennels. Change of climate,
teething, and contagion are other causes.
Symptoms. Dullness, peevishness, loss of appetite, dry
nose, watery eyes, elevated temperature, increased pulse
(110 to 120), sensitiveness to cold, shivering, cough and
glairy or yellowish discharge from the nose. The cough
becomes paroxysmal and often followed by vomiting, the
matter not being licked up again, the breathing is dis-
turbed, and the chest sounds on auscultation and percus-
sion imply disease there. The animal is weak, debil-
itated and emaciated, and diarrhoea, ulceration of the
mouth, and nervous symptoms usually precede death.
The complications are marked by symptoms of bronchi-
tis, pheumonia, enteritis, hepatitis, conjunctivitis, phre-
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nitis and skin-disease. Diseases of the brain (cramps,
convulsions, chorea, paralysis,) and skin-eruption are ex-
ceedingly common in the advanced stages. The eruption
is peculiar, consisting of small blisters, containing often a
reddish or purple fluid.
Treatment. A warm, comfortable bed, pure air, and a —
milk, or bread and milk diet are important. The diet
should not be so exclusive in dogs having had animal food
only.
A mild emetic, (antimonial wine), or a slight laxative,
(castor oil), may be followed by tonics, (gentian, quinia,)
febrifuges, (saltpeter), and expectorants, (ipecacuanha),
with perhaps an anodyne, (belladonna). As fever subsides,
tonics must be given freely (wine, quinia, sulphate of iron,
Fowler’s solution). In all the various complications treat
as for the different diseases, but avoid weakening reme- |
dies, and keep up tonics, stimulants, and a rich diet.
MALIGNANT CHOLERA. ASIATIC CHOLERA.
This attacks the domestic quadrupeds and birds simul-
taneously with man, and has been produced experiment-
ally by feeding the dried bowel discharges. These were
found to increase in virulence from the first to the third
day, and to decrease to the fifth day, after which they
were harmless, (Sanderson).
Symptoms. Muscular cramps, great prostration, partial
loss of motor power and excitability, great lowering of the
body temperature (80° F.), deathly-cold bloodless ex-
tremities, viscid tardily-flowing blood, and lastly, violent
abdominal pains and fiuid bowel dejections, often having
the specific rice-water appearance.
Treatment. The disease is mainly important as propa-
gating a poison so fatal to the human being, hence the
most perfect disinfection of all bowel dejections is imper-
ative, together with the seclusion and burial of the sick
and dead. As an example of current treatment may be
named, aromatics, (oil of anise, oil of cajeput, oil of juni-
Contagious and Epizootic Diseases. 25
per, tincture of cinnamon,) stimulants, (ether), and acids,
(sulphuric acid), mixed and given every quarter of an
hour. In the early stages add opium to check diarrhea.
To overcome surface coldness and collapse, use hot fo-
mentations, rubbing, inhalation of nitrate of amyle; to
sheath the intestines, demulcent drinks, (linseed tea,
mallow, slippery elm,) and to meet other states according
to indications. Every separate case would demand special
treatment.
In birds, change of the yard, and sulphate of iron and
carbolic acid in the water are especially reliable to check.
INTESTINAL FEVER IN SWINE. HOG-CHOLERA.
A specific contagious fever of swine, attended by con-
gestion, exudation, blood extravasation, and ulceration of
the membrane of the stomach and bowels, by liquid fcetid
diarrhoea, by general heat and redness of the surface and
by the appearance on the skin and mucous membranes
of spots and patches of a scarlet, purple, or black color.
It is fatal in from one to six days, or ends in a tedious,
uncertain recovery.
Symptoms. Incubation ranges from a week or fortnight
in cold weather to three days in warm. It is followed by
shivering, dullness, prostration, hiding under the litter,
unwillingness to rise, hot, dry snout, sunken eyes, unsteady
gait behind, impaired or lost appetite, ardent thirst, in-
creased temperature (103.2° to 105° F.) and pulse. With
the occurrence of heat and soreness of the skin, it is suf-
fused with red patches and black spots, the former disap-
pearing on pressure, the latter not. The tongue is thickly
furred, the pulse small, weak and rapid, the breathing ac-
celerated and a hard dry cough is frequent. Sickness
and vomiting may be present, the animal grunts or
screams if the belly is handled, the bowels may be cos-
tive throughout but more commonly they become re-
jaxed about the third day and an exhausting foetid diar-
rhoea ensues. Lymph and blood may pass with the dung.
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Before death the patient loses control of the hind limbs,
and is often sunk in complete stupor, with muscular
trembling, jerking, and involuntary motions of the bowels.
Causes. It is mainly propagated by contagion, though
faults in diet and management may serve to develop it.
The poison will blow half a mile or more on the
wind, and is with difficulty destroyed in hog-pens, fodder,
etc.
Treatment ought not to be permissible, unless in a con-
stantly disinfected atmosphere. Feed, well-boiled gruel
of barley or rye, or in case these raise the fever, corn-
starch made with boiling water; give to drink fresh cool
water, slightly acidulated with sulphuric acid. For the
early constipation give a mild laxative (castor oil, rhu-
barb,) and injections of warm water, following up with
fever medicine (nitrate of potassa and bisulphite of soda).
Tf the patient survives the first few days and shows signs
of ulceration of the bowels (bloody dung, tender belly,)
give oil of turpentine fifteen to twenty drops night and
morning. Follow up with tonics, and careful soft feeding.
Prevention. Kill and bury the diseased; thoroughly
disinfect all they have come in contact with; watch the
survivors for the first sign of illness, test all suspicious
subjects with the thermometer in the rectum, and sepa-
rate from the herd if it shows more than 103° F., destroy-
ing as soon as distinct signs of the disease are shown.
Feed vegetable or animal charcoal, bisulphite of soda,
carbolic acid, or suiphate of iron to the healthy, and avoid
all suspected food, places, or even water which has run
near a diseased herd. All newly purchased pigs should
be placed at a safe distance in quarantine under separate
attendants until their health has been proved.
TEXAN FEVER.
A specific fever, rising in the low, malarious grounds of
the States bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, and commu-
nicable to the cattle of the elevated lands of the same and
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other States in a more fatal form. It is characterized by
enlarged spleen, profound changes in the blood, escape of
the blood elements into the substance of the various tissues
and with the urine, causing bloody discharges from the
kidneys, yellowness of the mucous membranes and fat,
great prostration and debility.
Symptoms. There seems to be an incubation of four or
five weeks, ending in elevated temperature (103° to 107°)
and followed in five to seven days by dullness, languor,
drooping head till the nose reaches the ground, arched
back, hind legs advanced under the belly and bent at the
fetlocks, cough more or less frequent, muscular trembling
about the flanks, jerking of the neck muscles, heat of horns,
ears and general surface (limbs cold—in exceptional
cases) and impaired appetite and rumination. Soon weak-
ness compels lying down, by choice in water, eyes are
glassy and fixed, secretions lessened, dung hard and
coated with mucus, or with clots of blood, and the urine
changes to a deep red or black and coagulates on boiling.
The mucous membranes are of a deep yellow or brown,
that of the rectum seen in passing dung is of a dark red,
as in Rinderpest.
All these symptoms become ageravated, a ense be-
comes extreme, and the patient dies in a state of stupor,
or sometimes in convulsions.
The disease usually passes unnoticed in the Texan cat-
tle, but is exceedingly fatal in northern beasts.
Contagion takes place through the bowel discharges,
and roads, pastures, water-courses, etc., become effi-
cient bearers of the virus. It is destroyed at once by
frost, and has never been satisfactorily demonstrated to be
conveyed from one northern animal to another. Sucking
calves rarely suffer. One attack does not protect against
another.
Prevention. Itshould be enforced by United States law
that no Gulf-coast cattle should be moved north excepting
after the first frosts of autumn, or before the last frosts of
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spring. Then would the traffic be safe for all the North.
The time would vary for the different States, but the ear-
lier or later traffic for the extreme north should be by di- —
rect route without intermediate unloading. A general re-
striction of this sort, with the expense levied on all the
States, would be more economical and satisfactory than a |
supervision by each State of its own frontier.
Treatment should never be called for. It may, however,
be resorted to with less danger than in the case of a true
plague. In some cases emollient drinks and enemas, soft
food, and stimulating fever medecines have been followed
by recovery. Chlorate of potassa, nitre, iodide of potassi-
um, and carbolic acid have evidently been of advantage.
Wet-sheet packing, as for Lung-fever, should be beneficial,
and refrigerant or stimulating diuretics (digitalis, nitre, or
nitrous ether,) according to the indications of the partic-
ular case. Peculiarities in different cases would demand
a variation of treatment. The diet throughout should be
of soft mashes, and a return to ordinary fibrous aliment
made slowly and carefully, as being liable to cut off by
gastro-entritis.
CANINE MADNESS. RABIES. (HYDROPHOBIA).
A specific disease supposed to arise spontaneously in the
genus canis (dog, wolf, fox,) and in the cat, but transmis-
sible by inoculation to all the domestic animals and to
man. It is marked by disorders of intellectual, emotion-
al, and nervous functions, altered habits, irritable temper,
optical delusions, spasms of the muscles of the eyeballs
and throat, paralysis, and more or less fever.
Causes. Inoculation by bite is the usual (almost inya-
riable) cause, yet cases manifestly arise spontaneously in
most countries. Season, climate, abuse, privation of wa-
ter, improper food, muzzling, etc., have no effect further
than they serve to produce a febrile state and hasten the
development of the disease when the seeds are already
implanted in the system. A constantly increasing mass
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of testimony points to the conclusion that the restraint of
an ungovernable sexual desire is one cause of the genera-
tion of the malady, and it is even supposed that the ma-
ternal instinct has had a similar effect after the puppies
have been removed. Males chiefly suffer, partly, no doubt,
from their special hability to natural exciting causes, but
mainly because the rabid dog is far more likely to bite a
male than a female.
The poison is resident in the alive and blood, but not
in the milk. The saliva of rabid herbivora, omnivora, and
men is equally virulent with that of carnivora, though in
all animals it varies in intensity according to the stage of
the disease. Of animals bitten by a violently rabid dog
nearly all contract the disease, whereas among men the
proportion is five to fifty-five per cent. This apparent
immunity is largely due to the cleaning of the teeth on the
dress before they reach the skin.
Incubation varies in dogs from five to eighty days, the
majority showing symptoms thirty to forty days after the
bite; in the horse fifteen to ninety days (usually thirty) ;
in cattle twenty to thirty days; sheep twenty to seventy-
four days; swine twenty to forty-nine days. In man it
' ranges about the same, exceptional cases extending over
years being manifestly instances of disease resulting from
fear, a common occurrence in the human being.
Symptoms. In the Dog. Any sudden change of habits,
or instincts—dullness, restlessness, watchfulness, tenden-
ey to pick up and swallow straws and other small objects,
constant desire to smell or lick the anus or generative or-.
gans of themselves or others, to lick a stone or other smooth,
cold object, to rub the throat or chops with the fore paws,
silent endurance of pain, rubbing or licking of a scar, the
seat of the bite, liability to sudden passion and attempts
to bite at sight of another dog or cat, may be looked on as
very suspicious, if rabies exists in the country. Soon the
characteristic howl is omitted. The voice is hoarse, low
and muffled, and there is one loud howl followed by three
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or four more successively diminishing in force and uttered
without closing the mouth. Some dogs appear unusually
fond of their owners and fatally inoculate them by licking
their hands and face. Others turn the head and eyes as
if following imaginary objects and snap as if at flies.
Barking without object, a constant searching, or tearing
of wood, etc., to pieces, a seeking of darkness and seclu-
sion and a disposition to resent disturbance, or a pilgrim-
age of several days’ absence from home are among the most
common precursors of the disease.
Furious Rabies. Following some of the above symptoms
there is a redness and fixed glare in the eyes, squinting,
rolling of the eyes after fancied objects, more frequent
howling, and increasing irritability with a tendency to
worry all animals that come in their way, the respect for,
and immunity of former friends being lost in the violence
of a paroxysm. ‘The victim can no longer rest, but under-
takes long journeys at a slouching trot, ready to fly at all
that cross his path, especially if they make any noise or
outcry. He may die during one of these journeys, or re-
turn dirty, careworn and sullen, with the rabid glare in
his eye and ready to resent any inteference. Hach parox-
ysm of violence or wandering is followed by a period of
depression and torpor proportionate to the preceding ex-
citement, during which dark and seclusion are preferred,
though any disturbance will arouse to violence. From the
fourth to the eighth day paralysis sets in, first in the hind
limbs then in the jaw and the whole body, the certain pre-
cursor of approaching death.
Paralytic Rabies. In this case paralysis with dropping
of the lower jaw is shown at the outset, and gradually ex-
tends to the whole body. 'The animal cannot bite, eat, nor
drink, rarely barks, and dies early.
Lethargic (Tranquil) Rabies. Palsy of the jaw is less
marked, but there is complete apathy, the patient remaining
curled up in one position, and is not to be roused by
any effort. He becomes daily more emaciated and dies'in
ten to fifteen days.
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In addition to these typical forms there are others hold-
ing an intermediate place. The furious form is especially
common in bulldogs, hounds, and the less domesticated
varieties, the paralytic and tranquil in the house and pet
dogs. |
Popular Fallacies. I name these because of the evil re-
sults of entertaining them. 1. Mad dogs have no /ear
of water (hydropholhia). On the contrary, they swim
rivers, plunge their noses in water or lap their urine with-
out hesitation. 2. Appetite is not lost, only depraved, and
the stomach after death is found to contain an endless va-
riety of improper objects. 3. There is rarely froth at the
mouth, though saliva may run from it when the jaw is par-
alyzed. 4. The tail 1s not carried between the legs but is
rather held erect during a paroxysm.
Foxes and wolves have symptoms like those of the dog,
the animals losing their natural shyness or fear, and at-
tacking man and beast indiscriminately. Cats attack with
claws and teeth, flying at the face and hands, and utter
hoarse loud cries as in heat. The horse bites, kicks, neighs,
draws his yard, rolls his eyes, jerks his muscles, and dies
paralyzed. The mischievous propensity distinguishes
from delirium. ‘The oz is restless, excitable, everts the
upper lip, grinds his teeth, bellows loudly and as if in
terror, scrapes with his fore feet, and butts and kicks all
who approach. There is jerking of the muscles and
finally paralysis. Sheep are similarly excited, show sexual
appetite, stamp, butt, and bleat hoarsely. They die para-
lytic. Swine are excitable, restless, grunt hoarsely, champ
the jaws, bite intruders, tear objects to pieces, gape,
yawn, become weak and die paralytic.
_ Recoveries are so rare as to be extremely questionable.
Treatment. This can only be warranted in the lower
animals in hope of discovering a curative method for man,
and then with extreme precautions and in iron cages.
Theoretically, vapor baths, with sulphites and antispas-
modies (datura, atropia, chloral-hydrate, etc.,) would
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promise the best results. The boasted curative agents have
all broken down when tried on well-marked cases in the
lower animals, in which diseases of the Imagination are not
to be looked for. -
Prevention. When bitten, at once check the flow of
blood from the part, in the hmb by a handkerchief or
cord with a piece of wood through it twisted tightly
around the member a little higher than the wound,—in
other parts by sucking, or by cutting open the wound to
its depth and squeezing or wringing as if milking to keep
up a free flow of blood, soaking it meanwhile in warm
water if available. Drinking liquids to excess will also
retard absorption. But as soon as caustics can be had
apply them thoroughly to all parts of the wound, making
sure that its deepest recesses are reached. ‘The compres-
sion by handkerchief or fingers should not be relaxed
until this operation is completed. A hot skewer, nail or
poker, serves admirably, and if at a white heat is less
painful. But oil of vitriol, spirit of salt, nitric acid, caus-
tic potassa or soda, butter of antimony, chloride of zine,
nitrate of silver, blue stone, copperas, indeed any caustic
at hand should be at once employed. The wound should
be thoroughly cauterized, though some time has elapsed
since the bite, as absorption does not always take place at
once.
All dogs should be registered, taxed, and furnished with
a collar bearing their own and their owner’s names and .
that of their residence. During the existence of rabies in
a country all dogs found at large unmuzzled should be de-
stroyed. Suspected dogs should be shut up under super-
vision for three months unless rabies is developed earlier.
Dogs that have bitten human beings should be similarly
shut up for a week to test the existence of the disease or
otherwise.
MALIGNANT ANTHRAX.
A constitutional disorder, arising in rich, damp lo-
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ealities, in herbivora, swine and birds, and communica-
ble by inoculation to other animals and to man. It
shows itself by many different forms, all characterized by
extreme changes in the chemical and vital properties of
the blood, breaking down of the blood-globules, extrava-
sations of blood or albuminous fluids in different parts of
the body, with a tendency to gangrene, yellow or brown
mucous membranes, enlargement or even rupture of the
spleen (milt), and a very high mortality.
Causes. It is propagated by contagion but tends to die
out when produced in this way only. It is transmitted by
contact with the blood, liquid exudations, portions of the
diseased carcass, fat, skins, hair, wool, bristles, feathers,
and bowel evacuations, and rarely or not at all through
the atmosphere. Simple contact of these matters with the
healthy skin of a susceptible subject is enough to produce
the disease. The virus is most potent when received from
an animal still living or only recently dead, and yet may
be preserved for months in all conditions of climate, tem-
perature and humidity.
Eating of the flesh of animals killed while suffering in
this way has often conveyed the disease in spite the cook-
ing to which it was subjected. Fifteen thousand of the
inhabitants of St. Domingo once perished in six weeks
from this cause, and a whole family was poisoned a few
years ago in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Tartars perish
in great numbers from eating their anthrax horses. Mos-
quitoes and other insects with perforating apparatus to the
mouth probably help to communicate it as nearly all cases
in man occur on exposed parts of the body.
Its development in a locality is determined: 1. By the
rich surface soil abounding in organic matter, and the im-
pervious subsoil preventing natural drainage. 2. The fre-
quent inundations of banks of rivers flowing through level
countries and the drying up of ponds and lakes leaving
much organic deposit in their basins. 3. A continuation of
warm, dry weather which favors organic emanations from
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such places as the above. 4. A condition of the sys-
tem of the animal predisposing to the reception and
growth of the poison, and consisting in the loading of
the blood with plastic or waste organic matter, as in over-
fed plethoric animals, in those making flesh most rapidly,
in the young and rapidly growing, in those rendered un-
healthy by overwork, impure air, unsuitable food or
water. 5. Sudden chills when the poison is already pres-
ent; hence, extreme variations in the temperature of night
and day. 6. A close, still atmosphere.
General characters. In the typical cases the blood is
black, tarry and incoagulable, and in all it shows broken-
up globules, and microscopic rod-like bodies and clear, re-
frangent spherules (bacteria) such as appear in putrefying
liquids. The spleen, lymphatic glands and liver are en-
larged, the mucous membranes of the stomach and intes-
tines are usually reddened, thickened, and softened, and
any other part of the body may be the seat of bloody or
albuminous effusion with a tendency to death, decomposi-
tion, the extrication of gases in the tissues and a crackling
sound when handled. When it commences in one point
on the surface (malignant pustule) there is first an un-
healthy eruption of minute blisters which burst, dry up
and become gangrenous, while new blisters appear around
as the unhealthy action spreads.
Divisions. The malignant anthrax may be manifested
by external disease, or swelling, or without such appear-
ances. ‘To the first class belong the carbuncular erysip-
elas of sheep and swine, malignant sore-throat of hogs,
gloss-anthrax or black-tongue, black-quarter or bloody
murrain, the boil plague of Siberia, and the malignant pus-
tule of man. ‘To the second belong all those forms of the
disease in which there are the specific changes in the blood,
with engorgement of the spleen, blood-staiming and exu-
dations into internal organs, only.
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Malignant Anthrax with External Lesvons.
(A) In Horsrs.—(1) Siberian Boil Plague. This is un-
questionably an anthrax disease, and though named from
Siberia is not unknown in other lands. A slight shiver-
ing and fever are followed by a swelling on the udder,
sheath, breast, throat, or elsewhere, which rapidly in-
creases sometimes to the size ofaninfant’shead. Atfirst soft,
it hardens, assuming a yellow, bacon-like appearance, with
red streaks and spots. The animals die in twelve or twenty-
four hours, rarely surviving three days. The blood is in
the state so characteristic of anthrax, with bacteria, enlarged
spleen and sanguineous effusions. In cattle similar tumors
appear, mainly on the throat, neck, or dewlap, in sheep
and goats on the bare surfaces and in pigs around the
throat. In all cases the disease, when conveyed to man,
produces the blue-pox (malignant pustule). At the outset
all cases prove fatal, later recoveries occur under the local
use of cold water, or the hot iron or other caustics pushed
to the depth of the tumor, and mineral acids internally.
— (2) Malignant Anthrax with Diffused Local Swellings.
Typhus. This is usually confounded with the purpura hem-
orrhagica, which is in no sense a contagious affection, but
occurs In weak conditions of the body, as a sequel of de-
bilitating diseases (influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc.)
Our limits forbid extended treatment, hence the general
symptoms will be named, and the observer left to distin-
guish the two diseases according to their origin, commu-
nicability and prevalence.
Symptoms. Shivering, lassitude, stupor, impaired appe-
tite, whitish discharge from the nose, accelerated pulse
and breathing, costiveness with slimy dung or scouring,
high-colored, odorous or bloody urine, swellings the size of
a walnut or closed fist on different parts of the body, or a
continuous swelling beneath the chest and belly, or extreme
engorgement of the limbs or head. These are at first hot
and tender, and easily indented with the finger, but soon
become hard, the skin gets rigid and exudes drops of a
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yellow serum or pure blood. They may render the patient
unable to walk, see, feed, drink, urinate, or breathe ac-
cording to situation. The mucous membranes become
swelled, puffy, dusky or yellow, with red spots and streaks,
and a viscid, bloody and finally foetid discharge flows from
the nose. Breathing may become labored and quick in
connection with exudations into the chest, or violent colies
may supervene from effusions in the abdomen. With inter-
nal effusions death ensues in forty-eight hours, with exter-
nal only, the effects may last for weeks or months before
ending in recovery or death. In the latter case the swellings
may suddenly disappear to reappear elsewhere, they may
subside permanently in connection with free action of the
bowels or kidneys, or they may slough, leaving extensive
and sluggish sores and scars.
(B) In toe Ox.—(1) Black Tongue. Also in the Horse.
This is manifested by the eruption of blisters, red, purple
or black, on the tongue, palate and cheeks, increasing in-
dividually often to the size of a hen’s egg, bursting, dis-
charging an ichorous irritating fluid, and forming un-
healthy sores with more or less tumefaction. There is a
bloody discharge from the mouth, active fever sets in and
death ensues in twenty-four to forty-eight hours.
(2) Black-Quarter. Bloody Murrain. This is malig-
nant anthrax, with extensive engorgement of a shoul-
der, quarter, neck, breast or side. It is most frequent in
young and rapidly thriving stock, attacking first the finest
of the herd or those thriving most rapidly, and runs its
course so quickly that its victims are usually found dead
in the field as the first indication of anything amiss. Ii
seen during life there are the general symptoms of pleth-
ora, fever, with halting on one limb, stiffness, and excessive
tenderness of some parts of the skin, to be promptly fol-
lowed by swelling of such parts, with yellow or bloody
oozing from the surface, and crackling when pressed.
These swellings become firm, tense, insensible and even
cold, and if the subject survives may finally slough open
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and leave large, unsightly and inactive sores. Recoveries
are the exception and too often slow and tedious.
(C) In SHeep. Carbuncular EHrysipelas. This strongly
resembles black-quarter of cattle. Like that it attacks
the finest of the flock and the bodies of its victims are
found dead in the field. There is first halting on a limb,
then a red or violet swelling beginning inside the leg and
rapidly extending over the body. The feeling, appearance
and course of the swelling agree with those of black-quarter
and death occurs in a few hours, or in exceptional cases in
two days.
(D) InSwinz. These suffer from Anthrax of the Mouth,
comparable to black-tonque, carbuncular erysipelas, like that
of the sheep, pharyngeal anthrax and tumors about the throat,
which sometimes at least have the anthrax characters.
(1) The Carbuncular Erysipelas has been constantly con-
founded in systematic veterinary works with intestinal fe-
ver but is a distinct disease, being derivable from other
anthrax patients and communicable to other genera of an-
imals and to man, whereas hog-cholera is absolutely con-
fined to swine.
(2) Malignant Sore-throat. Pharyngeal Anthrax. This
is perhaps the most frequent form of the disease in
swine, often appearing to arise from eating the carcasses
or excretions of other anthrax animals. There is active
fever with redness and swelling of the throat, neck, breast
and even the fore limbs. This is at first hard, elastic,
warm and tender, but becomes purple, cool, insensible and
pits on pressure. There is loss of appetite, retching, vom-
iting, purple patches and black spots on the eyes, snout
and skin, difficult breathing through the mouth, livid
tongue, decreasing temperature, great weakness and death
in one or two days.
(3) In the guttural tumors the swelling is circumscribed
to the size of a kidney-bean or egg, on one or both sides
of the throat, extending to involve the throat generally,
causing vomiting, difficult breathing and swallowing, the
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general symptoms of anthrax, and death from suffocation
often under twenty-four hours. It attacks pigs of five or
six months.
(E) Doas anp Cats. These suffer when they have eaten
the carcasses of anthrax victims. The disease usually lo-
calizes itself in the mouth, throat and digestive organs,
giving rise to bloody vomiting and purging, with high fe-
ver and often death.
(F) Brrps—Suffer from the primary disease and more
frequently from eating the debris of anthrax victims. In
addition to the fever, characteristic swellings appear
mainly‘on the comb, beak and feet.
(G) Man. Malignant Pustule. There is itchiness of the
affected part, with a minute red spot, Increasing in twelve
or fifteen hours to the size of a millet-seed, bursting and
drying with a livid appearance in thirty-six hours. Next
day a new crop of vesicles surround the seat of the first
and pass through the same course to be succeeded by an-
other and still wider ring. The whole is surrounded by a
puffy, shining swelling, the central dry part passes through
the shades of red, blue, brown and black, becomes gan-
grenous and insensible and in case of recovery is sloughed
off. At first the disease is quite local, but as it advances
a violent fever sets in, which too often proves fatal.
Malignant Anthrax without External Swellings.
Apoplectic Form. In all animals there is a form in which
the victim is cut off after a few minutes’ illness with or
without discharge of blood from the natural openings of
the body and before time has been allowed for any of
those changes in the blood and internal organs which
characterize the disease. These are often to be distin-
guished from apoplectic seizures and sunstroke only by
their occurrence simultaneously with other forms of an-
thrax and in the same places.
Anthrax Fever in Horses. Vigorous health is replaced
by dullness, muscular weakness, stupor, hanging on the
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halter, leaning on the side of the stall, if at work unsteady
movement, colicky pains, lying down and rising, turning
the head towards the flank. The hair is dry and erect,
the hide tense, and may even crepitate on handling; it
trembles or sweats about the ears, elbows or thighs. The
eyes and nose assume a yellow or reddish or brownish-
yellow tinge, with oftentimes dark red or black spots.
The pulse is weak, the heart’s impulse behind the leit
elbow strong, breathing labored or quick and catching.
A frothy, bloody fluid may appear at the nose. The
bowels are costive, the dung covered with mucus, or loose
with streaks of blood. The rectum, everted, is of a dark
red and puffy. Great weakness comes on and the patient
dies in convulsions or during the subsequent calm. Death
usually occurs in twelve to twenty-four hours.
Anthrax Fever in Oxen. Splenic Apoplecy. The patient
ceases feeding and ruminating or does so irregularly,
trembles, has partial sweats, staring coat, varying heat of
the body, arched back, quarters rested on the stall or
fence, or lies with the head turned to the flank. A high
temperature (105° to 107°) precedes the outward symp-
toms by hours or days. The eye is sunken, dull, watery
with the shades of brown and yellow, and dark spots, re-
marked in the horse; breathing hurried, heart’s action
violent, pulse weak, loms and back tender or even crepi-
tating, urine bloody, bloody liquids escape from nose, .
anus or eyes, and the dung is streaked with blood. As the
disease advances the temperature of the body decreases
and the patient dies in convulsions or quietude, or makes
a rapid recovery. The fatal result usually takes place in
from twelve to twenty-four hours. :
Anthrax Fever in Sheep. Blood-Striking. Braxy. Isvery
promptly fatal, the dead and already foetid carcasses being
usually found in the morning tnough the flock was appar-
ently wellat night. The black, tarry blood brightening very
slowly on exposure, the enlarged spleen and mesenteric
glands, the red, puffy, softened membrane of the bowels and
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the bloody and gelatinous exudations show the true nature
of the disease. When seen during life there are signs of
plethora, fever, red eyes, costiveness, bloody, mucous
dung, bloody urine, colicky pains, unsteady gait, breath-
lessness when driven, flattened fleece, deep-sunken eyes, ©
stupor, convulsions and speedy death. Many cases of so-
called braxy are not communicable to other animals, hence
not genuine anthrax.
Anthrax Fever in Swine. There are dullness, thirst, in-
appetence, a tardy, unsteady gait, hot, pendent ears,
drooping tail, deep, dull brownish-red eyes, hurried
breathing, small pulse, violent heart’s action, and tense,
tender abdomen. Nervous tremors, twitching or cramps
come on, the body cools, bloody urine is passed and some-
times bloody dung. Dark or black spots appear on the
skin and mucous membranes, as in /wg-cholera, and if the
animal survives, these are sloughed off, often leaving sores,
If swelling appears externally it is often a herald of im-
provement.
Anthrax Fever in Birds. 'There is inappetence, ruffling
of plumage, sinking of the head in the shoulders, foetid
diarrhcea, drooping, trailing wings, tenderness to the
touch, muscular weakness, unsteady walk, inability to
perch, livid or black comb and wattles. Sometimes the
feathers drop off and swellings appear about the head,
throat or feet.
Treatment of Malignant Anthrax.
This is unsatisfactory owing to the rapidly fatal action
of the poison. The first cases usually die, the later ones
may often be treated with fair success.
General Treatment. In very plethoric subjects bleeding
may prove beneficial at the outset, but in advanced stages,
in poor and weak subjects, and in those with feeble con-
stitutions, like sheep, it is to be strongly condemned. Act
on the bowels, kidneys and skin to eliminate the poison
(sulphates of soda, or magnesia, acetate, nitrate, or tar-
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trate of potassa, common salt, oil of turpentine). Sponge
with cold water and rub actively till dry. Rub with cam-
phorated spirit or oil of turpentine. Give tonics (quinia,
salacin, etc.,) antiseptics (mineral acids, nitro-muriatic
acid, tincture of the muriate of iron, chlorate of potassa,
carbolic acid, bisulphite of soda, tincture of iodine, iodide
of potassium, bichromate of potassa). In the Genesee out-
break of 1875, I had admirable results from the use of
nitro-muriatic acid sixty drops, bichromate of potassa
three grs., and chlorate of potassa two drachms, twice daily
by the mouth, and two or three drachms of a saturated
solution of sulphate of quinia, iodide of potassium and bi-
sulphite of soda injected at equal intervals beneath the
skin. Of fifty very sick oxen only four died.
In the advanced and weak conditions stimulants (alco-
hol, turpentine, ether, valerian, angelica, camphor, etc.,)
are useful.
Local Treatment. This is very successful with inocu-
lated forms of the disease, (malignant pustule, boil-plague,
eloss-anthrax, malignant sore-throat) if employed before
the poison has passed into the system and produced fever.
For these, free cauterization and especially with the anti-
septic caustics (crystallized carbolic acid, the mineral acids,
chloride of zinc, chloride of iron, sulphate of iron or cop-
per) is successful. But the whole diseased tissue must be
reached, and in the case of the tongue the blisters must be
first laid open and the agent applied in small quantity with
a brush, or more freely in a diluted condition. In some
external cases the hot iron is used with advantage. Such
treatment may still be applied to circumscribed tumors ac-
companied by the fever, being followed by poultices to en-
courage suppuration.
For extensive engorgements use astringents (cold water,
vinegar, etc.,) weak antiseptic lotions, and, above all, in-
jections with a hypodermic syringe of antiseptics (diluted -
tincture of iodine, diluted carbolic acid—1-100, etc.) The
hypodermic treatment is equally applicable to the circum-
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scribed tumors, but we must saturate their whole sub-
stance, otherwise absorption of the poison will lead to gen-
eral disorder.
Prevention. 1. Drain the soil thoroughly. 2. Whena
soil cannot be drained, soil the stock in-doors or on other
pastures rather than graze them. 3. Remove the stock
from pastures known to be dangerous as soon as summer
heat and dryness of the soil favor malarious emanations,
(late summer and autumn). 4. Shelter the stock at night
and secure the shade of trees or sheds during the day,
when, after a hot, dry season, there comes an extreme
difference between the day and night temperature. 5.
Secure abundance of pure water, avoiding such as is stag-
nant or putrid. 6. Keep always in good thriving condi-
tion, and avoid sudden accessions of plethora. Artificial
feeding in dry times is often necessary to secure this, or
in case of an over-luxuriant pasture, seclusion in a barn-
yard for four or five hours a day. Sheep may be shut up
on moonlight nights, to prevent feeding, in dangerous ©
localities. 7. Overwork, exhaustion, close-aired build-
ings, ill-health, or whatever tends to load the blood with
waste matter should be avoided. 8. Exposed animals
may have a little nitro-muriatic, sulphuric or carbolic
acid daily in the water or food. 9. Diseased animals
must be separated from the healthy. 10. Carcasses, secre-
tions, dung, litter, etc., of diseased animals should be
deeply buried or otherwise perfectly destroyed. Build-
ings, yards, sheds, etc., occupied by the diseased should
be thoroughly disinfected. Pastures should be aban-
doned for that season, and graves fenced safely from tres-
pass for two years. - 11. None but the attendants should
approach the diseased. 12. Before handling, cauterize all
raw sores on hands or face with lunar caustic and wash
the hands in a weak solution of carbolic acid both before
and after. 13. Shut up all dogs, cats and pigeons. 14.
Never allow the flesh or milk to pass into consumption.
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GLANDERS AND FARCY.
A specific febrile disorder originating in solipeds, and |
transmissible by contagion or inoculation to dogs, goats,
sheep and men. Gilanders is characterized by a peculiar
deposit with ulceration, on the membrane of the nose,
and in the lungs, etc., and farcy by deposits of the same
material and ulcerations of the lymphatics of the skin.
Each has its acute and chrome form. The acute form
usually results from inoculation, or In weak and worn-out
systems. Besides the common cause—contagion, over-
work, exhausting diseases, and impure air are especially
injurious.
Symptoms of Acute Glanders. WLanguor, dry, staring
coat, red, weeping eyes, impaired appetite, accelerated
pulse and breathing, yellowish-red or purple streaks or
patches in the nose, watery nasal discharge, with some-
times painful dropsical swellings of the limbs or joints.
Soon the nasal flow becomes yellow and sticky, causing
the hairs and skin of the nostrils to adhere together, and
upon the mucous membrane appear yellow elevations
with red spots, passing on into erosions and deep ulcers
of irregular form and varied color and with little or no
tendency to heal. The lymphatic glands inside the lower
jaw where the pulse is felt, become enlarged, hard and
nodular, like a mass of peas or beans, and are occasion-
ally firmly adherent to the skin, the tongue, or the jaw-
bone. The lymphatics on the face often rise as firm
cords. An occasional cough is heard and auscultation
detects crepitation or wheezing in the chest. The ulcers
Increase in number and depth, often invading the gristle
or even the bone, the glands also enlarge but remain hard
and nodular, the discharge becomes bloody, foetid and so
abundant and tenacious as to threaten or accomplish suf-
focation, and the animal perishes in the greatest distress.
Symptoms of Chronic Glanders. This is characterized
by the same unhealthy deposits and ulcers in the nose,
varying extremely in size and number, often indeed situ-
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ated too high to be seen; by the same viscid discharge,
but usually much less tenacious than in the acute form ;
by the same hard, comparatively insensible nodular glands
on the inner side of the jaw-bone; and a cough, which,
however, is much more rare. Excepting at the very out-
set, the animal usually appears to be in the best of health,
with the apparently insignificant drawback of the nasal
discharge, and hence he is often kept and used till he con-
taminates a number of horses or even men. The case is
easily recognized unless where the ulcers are invisible or
the enlarged glands removed. It is sometimes needful to
inoculate a useless animal to decide as to the nature of
the malady. It usually proves fatal to the imoculated
animal in about ten days.
Symptoms of Acute Farcy. The premonitory symp-
toms resemble those of acute glanders, of which it is but
another manifestation. The local symptoms consist in
thickening of the lymphatic vessels, which feel like stout
cords, painful to pressure ; and the formation of rounded
inflammatory swellings (farcy-buds) along the course of
these corded lymphatics. There follow ulceration of these
buds, raw sores, discharging a glairy, unhealthy pus, and
dropsical engorgement of the limb or other part affected.
It is usually seen to follow the line of the veins on the
inner side of the hind or fore limb, but may appear on any
part. The cording usually extends from the feet toward
the body, and is most likely to be confounded with lym-
phangitis in which the swelling begins high up in the
groin. It usually proves fatal, becoming complicated with
elanders before death.
Symptoms of Chronic Farcy. This may follow the acute
form or come on insidiously. First there is some swelling
of a fetlock, usually a hind one, and a round, hard, nut-like
mass may be felt which gradually softens, bursts and dis-
charges the characteristic serous or glairy matter. The
lymphatics leading up from it meanwhile become corded,
and farcy-buds appear along their course. Or the round,
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pea-like buds appear first on the inner side of the hock,
or on some other part of the body, soften, burst and dis-
charge before any cording of the lymphatics can be felt.
By-and-by, dropsical swellings appear in the limbs and
elsewhere, at first soft and removable by exercise, later,
hard and permanent. Sometimes the farcy-buds fail to
soften but remain hard and indolent for months.
Glanders in the dog is a comparatively mild affection,
but as deadly if it is conveyed back to the horse or to
man. (Glanders in man presents the same general symp-
toms as in the horse, and need not be further described.
Treatment of Glanders. The acute disease is fatal.
The chronic form occasionally appears to recover, though
more commonly the symptoms are covered up to reappear
whenever the animalis put to hardwork. The treatment of
elanders in all its forms and of acute farcy with open sores
should be legally prohibited because of the danger to man
as well as animals.
For glanders the most successful agents have been ar-
seniate of strychnia (5 grs.), bisulphite of soda (2 drs.),
biniodide of copper (1 dr.), cantharides (5 grs.) with veg-
etable tonics, sulphate of copper (6 drs. in mucilage), sul-
phate of iron (4 drs.), chloride of barium, copaiva,
cubebs, etc. Pure air and rich food are perhaps even
more important. To the nose may be applied sulphur
fumes, fumes of burning tar, carbolic acid solution in
spray, etc. The enlarged glands may be treated with as-
tringent solutions, and later with iodine injections, or may
even be excised with the knife.
Treatment of Chronic Farcy. Active local inflammation
may demand purgatives (aloes), diuretics (iodide of potas-
sium) with warm fomentations or astringent lotions, exer-
cise and a soft non-stimulating diet. In the absence of
such indication use the tonics advised for glanders, choos-
ing in the order named. The corded lymphatics and un-
broken farcy-buds may be blistered or rubbed with iodine
or mercurial ointment. The raw sores should be treated
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with caustics (carbolic acid, nitrate of silver, corrosive
sublimate, chloride of zinc, or even the hot iron). Use
iodine, diuretics, exercise, rubbing, etc., to reduce the
swelling, and feed liberally. |
Prevention. 1. Destroy all glandered horses, and all
with acute farcy and open sores, and bury deeply. 2.
There should be a high penalty attached to the exposing
of glandered horses in public places. 3. Suspected ani-
mals should be secluded under veterinary supervision un-
til they can be pronounced sound, or destroyed. 4. The
stable, manure, litter, harness, clothing, utensils, etc., with
which the diseased has come in contact should be thor-
oughly disinfected. 5. Neither strange animals nor men
should be admitted, and attendants should disinfect before
leaving. 6. Horses should be protected as far as possible
from exhausting work, chronic wearing-out affections and
above all impure and rebreathed air.
VENEREAL DISEASE OF SOLIPEDS.
This is a curious disease of unknown origin, existing in
Arabia, North Africa and Continental Europe, bearing a
strong resemblance in many points to Syphilis, and pro-
pagated by copulation. JI name it here because of the
probability of its importation with European or Arabian
horses. |
Symptoms. From one to ten days after copulation, or
in the stallion sometimes after some weeks, there is irri-
tation, swelling, and a livid redness of the external organs
of generation, (in stallions the penis may shrink) followed
by unhealthy ulcers which appear in successive crops, of-
ten with considerable interval. In mares these are near
the clitoris, which is frequently erected, with switching
and rubbing of the tail; in horses on the penis and sheath.
In the milder forms there is little constitutional disturb-
ance and the patients recover in a time varying from a
fortnight to two months. In the severe forms the local
swelling increases by intermittent steps. The vulva is the
Contagious and Epizootic Diseases. AT
seat of a deep violet congestion and extensive ulceration,
pustules appear on. the perineum, tail and between the
thighs, the lips of the vulva are parted, exposing the irreg-
ular, nodular, puckered, ulcerated and lardaceous-looking
mucous membrane, abortion ensues, with emaciation, lame-
ness, paralysis and death after a wretched existence of five
months to two years. In horses swelling of the sheath
may be the only symptom for a year, then there may follow
dark spots of extravasated blood, or swellings of the penis,
the testicles may swell, a dropsical engorgement extends
forward beneath the abdomen and chest, the lymphatic
glands in different parts of the body may swell, pustules
and ulcers appear on the skin, the eyes and nose run, a
weakness and vacillating movement of the hind limbs
gradually increases to paralysis, and in a period varying
from three months to three years death puts an end to the
suffering.
It is needless to speak of treatment. Should this dis-
ease ever reach America it ought to be stamped out at
once as its insidious nature would enable it to spread to
the great destruction of stock.
TUBERCULOSIS. CONSUMPTION. PINING.
This is a hereditary constitutional affection, character-
ized by a specific deposit of cells, large and small, in a
special network, but without blood-yessels. It is situated
by preference in the groups of lymphatic glands, or in the
microscopic gland-like tissue of the different organs, and
may be seen in all stages from the simple redness and con-
gestion in which the deposit is only commencing, through
the solid grayish tubercle to the soft yellowish, cheese-like
mass resulting from the softening of the latter. There are
also the open cavities (vomice) resulting from their rup-
ture and the discharge of the tuberculous matter, and
chalky masses from the deposit of earthy salts within
them. They may be no larger individually than a millet-
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may measure a foot long and five or six inches in thickness.
They are most common in cattle, especially heavy milkers,
with long legs, narrow chest, attenuated neck and ears,
and horns set near together. Sheep and swine with a
corresponding conformation are next in order of lability,
while horses, dogs and fowls are comparatively exempt.
Oft-repeated experiment has shown that tubercle is com-
municable to healthy animals by inoculation, or by eating
the raw, diseased product, and that it is superinduced in
any predisposed individual by setting up a local inflamma-
tion. It has also been transmitted by the warm, fresh
milk, but probably only when the disease has invaded the
mammary glands; in many experiments, including those
conducted by the author, the milk has proved harmless.
Close, badly-aired buildings (as town cow-sheds) are among
- the most prolific causes of the disease, as are also changes
to a colder climate, to a cold, exposed locality, or from a
dry to a low, damp, undrained region. Finally, any cause
which tends to wear out the general health tends to tuber-
culosis in a predisposed subject.
Tubercles may be developed in any part of the body as
the lungs, their serous covering, the membrane supporting
the bowels, the coats of the intestines, the throat, the
spleen, the liver, the pancreas, the ovaries, the kidneys,
the bones, especially the ends of long bones, and in rare
cases, the muscles and connective tissue.
Symptoms vary according to the seat of the deposit, yet
there is a constitutional condition common to all, and the
lungs are almost always involved in the later stages, giving
rise to a great similarity of symptoms. The disease may
be acute but is usually chronic. The onset is insidious
and easily overlooked, tubercles being often found in ani-
mals killed in prime condition, and I have seen them in
parturition fever, which is always attributed to plethora.
There is some dullness, loss of vivacity, tenderness of the
withers, back and loins, and of the walls of the chest, oc-
casional dryness of the nose, heat of the horns and ears,
Contagious and Epizootic Discases. A9
want of pliancy in the skin, slightly increased tempera-
ture (102°), weak, accelerated pulse, mawkish breath, stiff-
ness of the limbs, wandering perhaps from one to another,
slight, infrequent, dry cough, and blue, watery milk, often
abundant but with cheesy matter, fat and sugar decreased
and soda and potassa in excess. The lymphatic glands
about the throat are often manifestly enlarged. Swellings
of the joints may appear, or a murmur harsher than natu-
ral may be heard over the lower end of the windpipe or in
the chest. With deposits in the abdomen and especially in
or near the ovaries of cows the desire for the male is often
constant (bullers) though conception and the completion
of gestation are usually impossible. Working oxen are
easily overdone and become visibly emaciated from day to
day. As the disease advances the eyes sink in their
sockets and lose all animation, the skin is hidebound,
harsh, dry and scurfy, the hair dull, dry and erect, the
membranes of the eyes, nose and mouth of a pale, yellow,
bloodless aspect, though often streaked with pink vessels,
a whitish discharge often takes place from the nose,
and with it an increased repulsiveness and often distinct
foetor of the breath ; if the bowels are involved scouring is
common, and if the bones, swelling and lameness increase.
FEixhaustion with profuse perspiration and labored breath-
ing occur on the slightest exertion, the appetite fails, tym-
pany follows each meal, and the milk is at once poorer
and lessened in quantity. The cough increases, becomes
rattling, the discharge profuse, foetid, mixed with cheesy-
like or chalky particles, crepitating, wheezing, gurgling
and other abnormal noises are heard in the chest, and
percussion shows dullness in particular parts with winc-
ing. All of the symptoms become steadily aggravated
and the animal usually perishes from the difficulty of re-
Spiration or the profuse foetid diarrhea. In cases affect-
ing the bones, the patient may be unable to stand and
the bony prominences may make their way through the
skin or even crumble under the pressure thrown upon
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them. If the tubercle is deposited in liver, pancreas or
kidneys, there are symptoms of disease of these respec-
tive organs.
Recoveries sometimes ensue in connection with healing ©
of vomicz or calcification of the tubercles in strong sub-
jects, but more frequently the disease progresses to a
fatal issue.
Treatment. This is unsatisfactory as being rarely suc-
cessful and even then in preserving an animal which is
dangerous as a breeder for producing a progeny predis-
posed to this disease, and for slaughter and dairy pur-
poses as possibly conveying the malady to man.
The most promising course is to secure dry, pure air,
sunshine, a genial temperature, rich and easily digestible
food, containing abundance of fat, (linseed, corn, beans,
peas, potatoes,) a course of tonics, (linseed or cod-liver
oil in small doses, sulphate of iron, hypophosphite of iron,
quinia, gentian, etc.,) and antiseptics, (fumes of burning
sulphur, bisulphite of soda, sulpho-carbolate of iron, ete.)
Prevention. This would include drainage, shelter of
pastures by trees, avoidance of changes to cold or damp
localities, a warm, sunny location for farm buildings, suit-
able feeding and watering, the prevention and cure of all
debilitating, and especially chronic diseases, protection
against overwork, or excessive secretion of milk on a
stimulating but insufficiently nutritious diet, securing
young, undeyeloped animals against breeding and milking
at the same time, rejection of tuberculous subjects from
breeding, the prompt removal of all such animals from
pastures or buildings used for the healthy, and the thor-
ough disinfection of all places where they have been kept.
The flesh and milk of tuberculous animals are always to
be viewed with suspicion, but this poison, like others, can
be destroyed by the most thorough cooking.
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CHAPTER IT.
PARASITES.
Parasites—their numbers. Tapeworms. Tzenia Coenurus. Ccoenurus Cer-
ebralis and their effects, Staggers, Turnsick, Gid, Sturdy, Water-brain in
calves and lambs. Tenia Echinococcus, Echinococcus Veterinorum (Hom-
inis), Echinococcus disease. Tzenia Solium. Cysticercus Cellulosa, Para-
sitic measles in swine. Tzenia Mediocanellata, Cysticercus Mediocanellata,
Parasitic Measles in cattle. Tzenia Expansa, tapeworm in sheep and cattle.
Lard Worm, Kidney Worm of hogs. Eustrongylus Gigas, Kidney Worm.
Trichina Spiralis, Trichinosis.
PARASITES.
The domestic animals harbor no less than two hundred
species of parasites which will be found treated in the au-
thor’s larger work, but the limits of the present book will
restrict us to a few of the more injurious. For convenience
of reference most of these are noticed in connection with
the organs (skin, bowels, liver, air-passages,) which they
infest, and here we will only name such as having a more
general diffusion through the body cannot well be referred
to any one organ.
TAPE-WORMS.
These are flat-bodied worms made up of small segments
joined end to end, and when full grown varying in length
from one inch to one hundred feet. The narrow end ter-
minates in a small globular head furnished with circular
sucking discs, and a proboscis usually encircled by one or
more rows of hooklets. From the other end the ripe seg-
ments are continually detached and expelled from the
body, and may be recognized ‘as little, white, flattened,
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oblong objects progressing over soil and vegetables by a
worm-like movement, and depositing an endless number
of microscopic eggs with which they are literally filled.
Some tape-worms are estimated to lay as many as.25,000,-
000 eggs. Taken with the food or water into the body of
a suitable host these eggs open and set free an ovoid six-
hooked embryo, which bores its way through the tissues
until it reaches that organ or tissue which is the natural
habitat of its species in the young or larval state and there
encysts itself. It may survive indefinitely or even die in
this situation or if its host is eaten by a carnivorous ani-
mal it may develop in its bowels into a mature tape-worm
and reproduce its species as before. Fortunately nearly
all the eggs perish from failing to be taken into the body
of a suiable animal in ee they can develop into the
cystic form, or this peril escaped, because the first animal
host is not devoured by the right species of animal in
which the young cystic worm can grow into its mature
tape-worm form. But from the enormous fecundity of
these tape-worms in eggs it is manifest that there may be
scarcely any limit to their increase when the different ani-
mals which form their hosts in the cystic and mature con-
dition abound together in the same locality.
STAGGERS. TURN-SICK. GID. STURDY. WATER-BRAIN IN
LAMBS AND CALVES.
The Tenia Cenurus of the bowels of the dog, a tape-
worm of one to three feet long, has its cystic form—Cenu-
rus Cerebralis—in the brain and spinal cord of sheep and
cattle, giving rise to nervous disease, varying much in
character according to the exact site of the cyst.
Symptoms. Great nervousness and fear without appar-
ent cause, or dullness, stupor and aberration of the
senses, and disorderly muscular movements. The sheep
is found apart from the flock with red eyes, dilated pupils,
blindness and unsteady gait, but with a tendency to move
restlessly in one direction. Left to itself, it neglects to
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eat or drink and wastes daily. But, if well-fed and ex-
citement avoided, it may even gain flesh. If the cyst is
situated on one side of the brain, the lamb turns to that
side, moving in a circle and making a beaten track. The
limbs on the opposite side of the body act in a disorderly
manner, being partially paralyzed. If there is one on
each side of the brain, the sheep will turn to one side or
the other, according to the relative activity of the para-
sites at any given moment. When the cyst is directly in
the median line, the sheep elevates its nose and advances
in a straight line until stopped by some obstruction.
When located in the back part of the brain, (cerebellum),
Fig. 1.
Fig. 1—Ccenurus Cerebralis. Showing the sac with its many heads (re-
duced). Also a single head magnified.
the host lifts its limbs in a jerking, uncertain manner, sets
them down in a hesitating way, stumbles perpetually, falls
and struggles for some time ineffectually in its efforts to
rise. If situated in the spinal cord, difficult breathing and
paralysis are marked symptoms. The disorders are often
extreme at first, and afterwards undergo a temporary im-
provement, the remissions and aggravations being proba-
bly due to the varying activity of the parasite at different
periods. Simple tumors, maintaining a steadily increasing
pressure rarely give rise to such intermittent symptoms.
The ccenurus mostly affects sheep under two years old
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and those that are out of condition. Yet the finest ani-
mals, kept for show, will sometimes suffer. So it is in
cattle, the young, weak and ill-thriven are the most ex-
posed, but all may suffer. For the same reason, poor,
damp and exposed. localities suffer more than the rich,
dry and sheltered.
Prevention. Destroy the dogs, or, if they must be kept,
deny them sheep’s heads until cooked. Examine them at
frequent intervals and expel all tape-worms by vermifuges,
(oil of turpentine, male-fern, kousso, areca nut, etc.)
Keep the young sheep at all times in good, thriving con-
dition. Drain all wet pastures, shelter exposed ones. _
Treatment. In rare cases, spontaneous recovery may
follow rupture of the cyst in connection with a blow on
the head or a fall. Hogg passed a long knitting wire
through the nose into the brain, and Youatt advises a
small trocar for the same purpose. But the cyst is more
easily punctured and extracted through the upper part of
the skull. In advanced cases, the internal pressure of
the cyst has sometimes caused absorption of the bones
and the formation of a soft spot on the upper part of the
skull. This should be laid open with a sharp lancet or
penknife, just enough to introduce a trocar and cannula
one-eighth inch in diameter, through which the lquid
may escape slowly. The animal may be turned on
its back to complete the evacuation, but held firmly so
that no struggling can take place. As the cyst is emptied,
a membrane will be found projecting through it, and
should be slowly drawn out. ‘This is the parasitic cyst,
and from its imner surface will be found projecting one
hundred to two hundred little elevations like pin-heads,
each representing the head of a tape-worm and being ca-
pable of development into the mature parasite if swal-
lowed by a dog. The wound should be covered with a
pitch plaster and a leather hood, and the patient placed
in a dark, quiet, secluded box, on soft, laxative diet for a
week.
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If the bones are not softened the point to be perforated
must be ascertained from the symptoms. If the sheep
turns to one side, open a little in front of the correspond-
ing ear and about half an inch from the median line of
the skull. If the head is elevated and the walk straight
forward without much terror or disorderly movement, open
at the same level but in the median line. If there is awk-
ward, hesitating movement, much terror, flurry and
stumbling, open in the median line further back. A flap
of skin is to be dissected up from the bone, large enough
to admit a trephine one-eighth inch in diameter (in an
emergency a gimlet will do) with which the bone is to be
_ perforated. After this the cannula and trochar 1s used as
above advised.
_ If more than one cyst should be present the operation
may require repetition, and with care recoveries often
ensue.
ECHINOCOCCUS DISEASE.
The Tenia Echinococcus, a tapeworm of the dog, not ex-
Fig. 2.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 3—Portion of cyst and heads of Echinococcus.
ceeding one inch in length, lives in its cystic form as
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Echinococcus (FE. Hominis, E. Veterinorum), in the most
varied internal organs of men and animals. As the cystic
form of this parasite has the power of increasing its num-
bers almost indefinitely, and growing into enormous mul-
tilocular cysts, it becomes extremely injurious and even
deadly to its brute, and, above all, to its human victims.
One-sixth of the human mortality in Iceland has been at-
tributed to this parasite, and a fatal case in a child has re-
cently come under my notice in Tompkins Co.,N. Y. Many
of the cysts of water found in the liver and other internal
organs of the domestic animals are specimens of echino-
coccus, and that they are not more frequently fatal may be
attributed largely to the shortness of the lives of animals
raised for slaughter. They may inhabit almost any organ
(liver, lungs, spleen, abdominal walls, kidneys, brain, eye,
etc.,) and the symptoms will vary accordingly.
Treatment. Spontaneous recovery may take place from
death or rupture of the sac. Otherwise the true nature
of these fluctuating tumors can rarely be recognized, but
if they should, they may be punctured with a very fine
needle-shaped nozzle, the liquid evacuated with a syringe,
and compound tincture of iodine injected into the sae.
Prevention. Destroy all superfluous dogs. Keep others
from slaughter-houses and deny raw flesh and especially
offal. THxamine frequently and if segments of tape-worm
are passed, clear them away with vermifuges (see gid).
Burn the dung of all dogs suffering from tape-worms, the
contents of evacuated hydatids and all offal containing
cysts.
MEASLES IN SWINE.
The bladder-worm of pork, (Cysticercus Cellulosa, Fig.
Parasites. Da
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5), is the immature form of a tape-worm of man, ( Tenia
solium), and is only caused by pigs having access to hu-
Fig. 5.
Fig. 5—Cysticercus Cellulosa, magnified.
man excrement, or to places near privies, etc., from which
the segments of the human tape-worm may travel. The
cysts, respectively about the size of a grain of barley, are
found in the muscles, in the loose connective tissue be-
tween them and under the skin, in the serous membranes,
in the eye, under the tongue, in the brain, etc., of swine.
They are also found in this undeveloped form in the mus-
cles, brain, etc., of man, causing disease and death. To
man the parasite is usually conveyed by eating under-
done pork, or in the cystic form he receives it as the
egg in his food (salads, etc.,) and water.
Symptoms. In pigs the cysts can usually be seen under
the tongue or in the eye. In man there are the general
symptoms of intestinal worms and the passage of the ripe
segments. Other symptoms may attend the presence of
the cysts according to the organ which they invade. ‘Thus
when passing into the muscles there are pains and stiffness
resembling rheumatism, when into the brain, coma, stupor,
imbecility, delirium, but when they have once become en-
eysted they may continue thus indefinitely without further
injury.
Treatment. The cysts scattered through the body are
beyond the reach of medicine.
Prevention. Human beings harboring tape-worms should
be compelled to take measures to expelthem. Their stools
should be burned or treated with strong mineral acids.
Swine should be kept far apart from all deposits of human
excrement; no such manure should be used as a top-dress-
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ing on pastures open to swine, or on land (market gardens,
orchards, etc.,) devoted to the raising of vegetables to be
eaten raw. Avoid raw meat, especially pork, even if
salted and smoked, and underdone meat and sausages,
also well-water from gravelly soils in the vicinity of habi-
tations.
MEASLES IN CATTLE.
This consists in the presence in the muscles of cattle,
especially young ones, of a cystic parasite two to four lines
in length, ( Cysticercus Mediocanellata) which as a mature
tape-worm (Tenia Mediocanellata) mhabits the human
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Fig. 6—Head of Tzenia Mediocanellata, magnified.
bowels. When the eggs were given experimentally to calves
they caused stiffness, wasting and death in three weeks.
Or improvement began at the end of a fortnight and ter-
minated in apparent recovery, the live cysts of course re-
maining in the muscles and ready to develop into their
adult form when eaten by man.
Under prevention and treatment might be repeated what
is stated under measles of swine, merely substituting the
word cattle for pigs. The current practice of eating raw
beef ham is especially reprehensible.
TAPE-WORM OF SHEEP AND CATTLE.
Tena Kxpansa is the name of this worm, which causes
great loss in some localities in America, as well as in Aus-
tralia, Germany, ete. Its cystic form is unknown, there-
fore we ean only check its increase by watching what
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sheep pass the ripe, detached segments, shutting them up,
expelling the worm by vermifuges (oil of turpentine in
milk, male-fern, etc.,) and burning both it and the sheep’s
droppings.
LARD-WORM OF THE HOG.
This worm (Stephanurus Dentatus) is from one to one and
Hire.
Tig. 7—Stephanurus Dentatus; a, male; d, female; c, head, magnified. Ver-
rill.
three-fourths inches long by one-thirteenth inch broad,
and is found in almost all parts of the body of swine. It
Fig. 8.
Fig. 8—Eustrongylus Gigas. Cuvier.
is frequent in the liver, kidney and the fat about the spare-
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rib, but has been found in the air-passages, the heart, the
veins, the mesentery and elsewhere. In many cases no
impairment of the health is observed. But irritation of
important organs like the kidney or liver may lead to weak-
ness of the hind parts, diarrhoea, or even blood-poisoning
and sudden death. Jt seems not improbable that the at-
tacks of this worm in the liver may produce a disorder
which is confounded with Hog Cholera. Its presence in
the kidney may sometimes be recognized by the existence
of microscopic eggs in the urine. The same results from
another worm—Lustrongylus Gigas. But without the ob-
servation of such eggs weakness of the hind parts cannot
be ascribed to the kidney-worm.
Treatment is unsatisfactory. Small doses of salt and oil
of turpentine may be given with no great hope of success.
The favorite dose of arsenic only escapes killing the hog
because he rejects it all by vomiting. If beneficial at all
it must be in small doses, one-eighth to one-sixth grain, so
that it may be taken up into the system.
Prevention is to be sought by keeping the healthy and
diseased apart, and especially by raising young pigs apart
from the ground occupied by the old.
TRICHINA SPIRALIS.
This worm, which is capable of being reared in all the
domestic animals, is especially common in man, the hog
Fig. 9.
Fig. 9—Adult Intestinal Trichina Spiralis, magnified.
and the rat. Trichine are almost microscopic, vary-
Parasites. 61
ing from one-eighteenth to one-sixth inch in length, yet
they are among the most deadly worms known. ‘The ma-
ture and fertile worm lives in the intestines of animals, the
immature in minute cystsinthe muscle. The latter can only
Fig. 10.
Fig. 1o—Muscle Trichina encysted, magnified.
reach maturity and reproduce their kind when the animal
which they infest is devoured by another and they are set
free by the digestion of their cysts. When thus introduced
into the bowels they grow and propagate their kind, giv-
ing rise to much irritation for the first fortnight, diarrhea,
enteritis or peritonitis. The symptoms caused by their bor-
ing through the bowels and into the muscles last from the
eighth to the fiftieth day. There are violent muscular
pains like rheumatism but not affecting the joints, a stiff, -
semiflexed condition of the limbs and sometimes swellings
on the skin. In man the affection is often mistaken for
rheumatism or typhoid fever, in the lower animals the
symptoms are usually less marked but are the same in kind.
There are loss of appetite, indisposition to move, pain
when handled and stiffness behind. If the patient sur-
vives six weeks recovery may be expected because the
worms no longer irritate after becoming encysted in the
muscle.
Treatment. In the first six weeks, but especially for the
first fortnight, use laxatives and vermifuges. Glycerine,
benzine, Dwppel’s animal oil, chloroform, alcohol and pic-
ric acid are fatal to them in about the order named.
Prevention. Never eat underdone meat. Trichina sur-
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vive 140° F. Hams thoroughly smoked are safe. Slghtly-
smoked hams and those steeped in creosote or carbolic
acid are most dangerous. Pigs should not be kept near
slaughter-houses and especially should the waste of these
places be forbidden them. Such hog-pens, indeed all pig-
geries, should be kept scrupulously clean and clear of rats
and mice. Thecarcasses of swine fed near slaughter-houses
or where rats abound should be subjected to a thorough
microscopic examination before passing into consumption.
Whenever a case of trichinosis occurs in a human subject
the pork should be traced to its source if possible, and the
pigs reared in the same place killed and subjected to pro-
longed boiling. The rats and mice should be eradicated |
and the hog-pens and manure burned.
CHAPTER OL
DIETETIC AND CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Ergotism. Goitre. Rheumatism. Acute Anasarca. Purpura Heemor-
rhagica. Anzemia.
ERGOTISM.
From time immemorial animals and men have suffered
from eating the cereal grains which have been attacked
with ergot. This was especially the case when agriculture
was in its infancy, for then a damp, cloudy season would
cause this affection to spread after the manner of a plague.
The same holds still to a less extent, and in the New
World as well as the Old. Not only the ergot but even the
smut of maize will bring about untoward effects. These
results may be divided into three categories according as
the poison acts on the brain producing convulsions, paraly--
sis or profound lethargy ; on the womb tending to abortion ;
or on the extremities causing dry gangrene.
Symptoms of the Nervous Form. Unsteady gait, a great
tendency to le down and to remain in a torpid state little
conscious of what is passing around, loss of lustre of hair
or feathers, coldness of skin, dilatation of the pupils of the
- eyes, and dullness of the special senses mark the early
stages. This may go on to paralysis or deep lethargy
without any active nervous excitement. Or paroxysms
supervene, during which the special senses become more
acute, the animal very excitable, and twitching of the mus-
cles or spasms like those of lockjaw or epilepsy convulse
the patient. Then there is a relapse into the former stupor
and drowsiness, with palsy of the hind limbs or knuckling
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forward at the fetlocks. Death may ensue in a few hours
or days, or the affection may become chronic, the patient
remaining with variable appetite, but gettmg no good of
his food, with spasms of the pharynx, vomiting or diar-
rhea. He usually passes off in a convulsion.
Symptoms of the Abortion Form do not differ from those
of abortion from other causes. (See Abortion).
Symptoms of the Gangrenous Form. Nervous symptoms
may or may not usher in the disease. Then follow swell-
ing, heat and tenderness of the extremities, usually the
hind feet but sometimes the fore, or the tail, ears or roots
of the horns. Lameness usually first draws attention to
this condition. Soon the extremity becomes cold, insen-
sible, of a deep brownish-red appearance and dry, hard or
almost horny. The swelling, heat and tenderness persist
higher up, but the lower part is dead including even the
bone up to a given point. At this level a red, circular
crack appears in the skin separating the dead from the
living, and if the patient should survive long enough the
whole gangrenous part drops off.
Tt usually occurs in winter from the dry hay fodder but
is distinguished from frost-bite by implicating the deep as
well as the superficial parts and attacking the feet in pref-
erence to the more exposed tail and ears.
Treatment is only successful in the mildest cases, and
the earliest stages. Change to wholesome diet, including
plenty of roots or potatoes. Clear offensive matter from
the bowels by laxatives, and give tonics (cinchona, gen-
tian,) stimulants (ammonia, valerian, angelica, musk,) and
antispasmodics (opium, chloral-hydrate, chloroform, or
nitrite of amyle). Use soft, warm poultices containing
camphor.
Prevention. Ergoted hay, known by the black, spur-like
growths out of the husks, should be withheld, or fed only
in limited quantity in conjunction with roots and potatoes.
Be careful in selecting seed clear of ergot. Seed may be
protected to a large extent by sprinkling with a strong
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solution of blue-stone or bisulphite of soda before sowing,
and drying with quicklime. Contaminated soil should be
used for other crops. Drainage, and open sunshine are
conducive to healthy growth. Hay from affected pastures
must be cut early, before it has run to seed.
GOITRE.
This is a diseased enlargement of the thyroid body, sit-
uated beneath the throat, and is common in animals and
in man wherever the water is charged with the products
of magnesian-limestone. Hence, its frequency on the
lmestone formations of New York and Pennsylvania.
Weakness, from any disease, poor feeding, abuse, over-
work, etc., aggravates the affection. In solipeds there
are two distinct swellings, one on each side, but in other
animals and, above all, in swine, the swelling is single and
in the median line. At first it is soft and even doughy,
but afterwards it is firm, tense and resistant, and if cut into
may even be gritty. In lambs it may form a great en-
gorgement from the jaw to the breast-bone, and the whole
produce of the year may be still-born or die soon after
birth.
Treatment. Give rain-water and use iodine freely, -
both internally, on an empty stomach, and over the swell-
ing. Persist in this for months. Weak solutions of iodine
may be thrown into the tumor by a hypodermic syringe,
or the nutrient blood-vessels may be tied.
The destruction of lambs by goitre may be obviated by
giving the ewes rain-water, good feeding and plenty of ex-
ercise in the open air during the winter.
RHEUMATISM.
This is a peculiar form of inflammation attacking the
fibrous structures of the body (muscles, tendons, joints,
bursze, etc.,) and dependent on a constitutional predispo-
sition transmitted from parent to offspring. It often
shifts from place to place, rarely results in suppuration,
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and shows a great tendency to implicate fatally the valves
and other fibrous structures of the heart. Besides the
constitutional predisposition, it owes its development to
accessory causes, such as cold and wet, cold draughts, and
disorders, especially those of the digestive or respiratory
organs which load the blood with abnormal and probably
acid elements.
Symptoms. Acute Form. Dullness, languor or indispo-
sition to move is followed by extreme lameness in one or
more limbs, and heat, swelling and tenderness of a joint,
tendon or group of muscles. If this tenderness moves
from joint to joint or muscle to muscle it is very charac-
teristic. The swelling is at first soft and afterward hard
and resistant; it may fluctuate from excess of synovia in a
joint, but rarely from the formation of matter. With the
onset of the inflammation comes active fever, with full,
hard pulse, increased temperature, hot, clammy mouth,
dry muzzle, hurried breathing, costiveness, and scanty,
high-colored urine, sometimes with a neutral or even acid
reaction. Cattle often remain down and refuse to rise.
If the disease extends to the heart, the pulse has a sharp,
often intermittent or irregular beat, and one or other of
the heart sounds may be accompanied by a hissing or
sighing murmur. (See diseases of the heart.)
Chronc Form. ‘This resembles the acute, excepting that
it is less severe, usually unattended by fever, and may
even appear only on exposure, and disappear in the warm
sunshine. It is hable to induce fibrous and even bony en-
largements, and in cattle suppuration, especially about the
joints, and in such cases the disease is more stable and
less inclined to shift from place to place.
Treatment. Give a laxative (horse, aloes; ox or sheep,
Epsom salts; pig or dog, castor oil,) with anodynes
(opium) if pain is extreme, and follow up with alkalies
(bicarbonate of potassa or soda; acetate of potassa or
ammonia ; cream of tartar,) and diuretics (colchicum, mu-
riate of ammonia, nitrate of potassa). Sudorifics (hot
et Os ee
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room; warm clothing; rugs wrung out of boiling water
closely applied to the skin and covered with dry; bags of
dry grain, bran or sand; rubbing with hot smoothing-irons
over a thin covering; hot air or steam baths; aconite;
acetate of ammonia; guarana, etc.,) are in the highest de-
gree beneficial. Some agents, like propylamine and muri-
ate of iron, have been very serviceable in certain hands.
Local treatment consists in the application of warmth,
etc., as above indicated, and also blisters (strong aqua
ammonia and olive oil) which may be applied several
times a day and the inflammation followed up as it re-
cedes from structure to structure.
ACUTE ANASARCA. PURPURA H#MORRHAGICA.
The affection to be described here 1s altogether different
in its nature from the dropsies which result from obstruc-
tion of veins, in phlebitis, or because of pressure by a dis-
eased structure, as also from those dependent on suppres-
sion of the secretion of urine, on heart-disease or a watery
state of the blood with deficiency of blood globules. It is
not at all inflammatory nor of the nature of malignant an-
thrax as is generally assumed. It is exceedingly common
after influenza and other affections of the respiratory organs,
in ill-ventilated stables where animals are compelled to use
rebreathed air, and in very open, cold barns where they
- are liable to be chilled after being heated at work. Sud-
den excessive lowering of temperature or exposure to cold
rain or wind storms, especially when hot and perspiring,
are efficient causes by reason of the sudden check to the
secretions of the skin. The disease is much more fre-
quent under the extreme vicissitudes of temperature of the
Northern States than in the more equable climate of the
British Isles.
Symptoms. The disease is manifested abruptly by ap-
pearance of tense, painful, rounded or diffuse swellings on
the nose, lips, face, neck, inner sides of the limbs, belly or
indeed anywhere over the body. These tend to enlarge,
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to run together and to gravitate downwards into the limbs
and the lower parts of the trunk, where they form extend-
ed, tolerably smooth swellings, pitting on pressure and
subsiding abruptly into the sound skin at their upper mar-
gins. The membrane lining the nose usually shows dark
blood spots and patches, ineffaceable by pressure, even at
this early stage, sometimes indeed before any swelling of the
skin, but always asthe disease advances. Siumnilarspotsmay
be seen on the skins of white animals. The urine is usu-
ally dense, thick, ammoniacal and often brownish-red.
Shivering often marks the period of effusion but there is
at first little change of pulse, temperature, breathing or
appetite. As the swellings increase, the animal becomes
unable to see, to eat, or even to move, almost, and breath-
ing may be carried on only with the greatest difficulty,
through the swollen and closed nostrils. Transverse
cracks and yellowish liquid oozing, appear in the bends of
the joints; little blisters with yellowish or bloody -con-
tents rise, especially in the hollow of the heel behind the
pastern, and, bursting, continue to discharge. Yellowish
serum or dark blood may ooze from the general surface of
the swelling ; patches of skin die, drop off and leave un-
healthy, weak sores with a serous discharge; the exuda-
tions may even soften the muscles, and loosen and detach
the tendons from the bones leading to turning up of the
toe or other distortions. Sometimes the superficial swell--
ings suddenly subside, and unless a critical diarrhoea or
diuresis occurs, serous infiltration of some internal organ
hike the lungs or bowels is apt to ensue, cutting off the pa-
tient suddenly, with great oppression of breathing or vio-
lent and persistent colicky pains, and, at times, a bloody
foetid diarrhoea.
The symptoms and dangers vary with the seat of the
effusion. ‘The result is most favorable when this is under
the skin, the main danger then being from suffocation, ex-
tensive death and sloughing of skin, and softening and de-
tachment of tendons and ligaments. Unless improvement
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is shown by the third or fourth day the disease will usuaily
last over twelve or fourteen days, and the resulting sores
even for months.
Prevention. Keep in strong, vigorous health, and avoid
the various causes (exposure, etc.,) known to precipitate
the malady. Drainage of damp localities is not without
its mfluence. Lastly, avoid weakening treatment in dis-
eases of the respiratory organs, especially such as are at-
tended with a low type of fever like influenza, and, above
all, avoid exercising such animals to fatigue, or exposing
to inclement weather.
Treatment. Give a mild laxative (olive oil, linseed oil,
aloes,) and follow up by diuretics (sweet spirits of nitre, oil
of turpentine, buchu, nitrate of potassa,) carefully gradua-
ted in amount to the strength of the patient, and use
freely agents calculated to increase the viscidity of the
blood (tincture of muriate of iron 1 dr., chlorate of potassa
2 to 4 dr., bichromate of potassa 4 grain,) with bitter
tonics (quinia, cascarilla, camomile,) and, if necessary to
moderate suffering, anodynes (belladonna) or in very pros-
trate conditions stimulants (alcohole liquors, oil of tur-
pentine). Locally, the swellings should be often bathed
with tepid lotions of tincture of muriate of iron, carbolic
acid, or chloride of zinc diluted so as to be non-irritating.
Astringent solutions should be assiduously employed
about the head, and, if suffocation is threatened, tubes of
sutta-percha may be inserted in the nostrils to keep them
open. 'Tracheotomy is to be avoided if possible, together
with scarifying of the swellings, because of the risk of un-
healthy sores resulting.
Modified Forms. 'The mild forms of this affection have
been described as scarlatina, the distinction being based
on the punctiform nature of the blood-staining, the sever-
ity of the sore-throat and the more moderate exudation.
But there is no contagion nor, indeed, anything that seems
to warrant the distinction claimed. This form may be es-
pecially benefited by poultices and counter-irritants to the
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throat, by the inhalation of warm water vapor, and by as-
tringent electuaries (chlorate of potassa, 2 oz. ; vinegar, 2
oz.; linseed meal, 5 oz. ; syrup, sufficient to form a pasty
mass. Smear one-eighth of the mass on the back teeth
twice a day). Otherwise, the treatment is the same as for
purpura.
ANAEMIA.
This term is used to imply a deficiency of red globules
in the blood, a result which may be determined by a vari-
ety of causes described in other parts of this work. Among
these may be named: profuse bleeding, excessive secretions
from the udder, kidneys, bowels, ae. chronic diseases of
digestion, or of the mesenteric plimdis feeding on aliment
deficient in some essential element, on what has been grown
on poor, sandy soils, restriction for a length of time to one
kind of food, starvation, diseases of the jaws or teeth,
damp, dark, badly-aired buildings, seclusion from sunlight,
etc. Some cases, however, are not traceable to any defi-
nite cause, and it appears that they set in and progress, in
spite of ooad hygienic arrangements, and in the absence
of any oben disease of saree
Symptoms. Great and increasing paleness of the mu-
cous membranes, and in white animals of the skin (paper
skin); lack of fullness or roundness of the veins; slow,
weak pulse; heart’s beat slow and heard with difficulty,
but excited to palpitation when the patient is subjected to
violent exertion; there is great lack of life and energ
and hurried breathing, perspiration and fatigue are easily
induced. As the blood becomes poorer all these symp-
toms are aggravated, movement becomes unsteady, the
hair or Lang is easily detached, appetite fails, the dung is
passed in small quantities and very hard, aud a very deter
urine, of a low density is secreted in excess. In the ad-
vanced stages the pale, dull, sunken eye, the puffy appear-
ance of the membrane of the eyelids, the dropsical swell-
ings beneath the jaws or body or in the limbs, the inability
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or disinclination to rise, the staggering gait, the hurried
breathing becoming quick and wheezing on the least exer-
tion, and the palpitations are highly characteristic.
~ Towards the end the urine may pass involuntarily or diar-
rhoea may supervene. Death sometimes occurs early, be-
fore there is much emaciation, and horses will even die in
harness. 3
Prevention. Avoid everything calculated to reduce the
system unduly. Severe depletive treatment of disease
(bleeding, purging, diuretics,) should only be resorted to
under necessity. Hard work, excessive yield of milk, etc.,
can only be warranted under a rich, abundant food, and in
an animal of great powers of digestion and assimilation.
Regularity in feeding, watermg and work are essential.
The effect of a spare diet, even in idleness, must be
careiully watched, as well as a long-continued feeding on
one variety of plant. If evil effects are shown there
should be a prompt change to natural hay or grass, con-
sisting of a variety of plants grown on a dry soil, and a
liberal supply of grain.
In cases due to parasites or other removable cause, at-
tention to these is manifestly the first step to prevention.
Treatment. After removal of the causes, support by
nourishing, easily-digested food in small bulk to avoid ex-
hausting the powers of the stomach. Ground oats, barley,
oil-cake, and a little natural hay may be especially men-
tioned, though, for weak subjects, thick, well-boiled gruels
and beef tea (even for herbivora) may be resorted to.
Tonics are all-important (iron, gentian, quassia, cascarilla,
cinchona, common salt, pepsin,) but should be given in
small doses to the weaker subjects. Iron and gentian,
given as tinctures, are especially useful. In extreme
cases, health may be speedily revived by the transfusion
of blood from a healthy animal. In all cases, the patient
should be allowed rest in a dry, warm, well-aired place,
and should have light, sunshine, and grooming.
CHAPTER IV.
DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
General causes of diseases of the breathing organs. Physical examination
of these organs :—Auscultation, percussion. bleeding from the nose. Nasal
Catarrh. Cold in the head. Collection of matter in the nasal sinuses. Ab-
scess of the false nostril. Abscess in the guttural pouches. Tumors in the
nose. Malignant catarrh of cattle. Sore-throat. Croup. Roup. Diphthe-
ria. Chronic roaring. Bronchitis. Chronic bronchitis. Glander heaves.
Acute congestion of the lungs. Pneumonia. Inflammation of the lungs.
Pleurisy. Inflammation of the membrane lining the chest. Pleuro-pneu-
monia. Broncho-pneumonia. Broncho-pleuro-pneumonia. Hydro-thorax.
Water in the chest. Pneumo-thorax. Air or gas in the chest. Abscess of
the intercostal spaces. Dropsy of the lung. Apoplexy of the lung. Pleu-
ro-dynia. Rheumatism of the walls of the chest. Asthmaindogs. Heaves.
Broken-wind. Bleeding from the lungs. Hzemoptysis. Parasites in the
upper air-passages. Grub in the head. Larva of Estrus Ovis. Pentasto-
ma Tzenioides. Parasites in the lower air-passages. Lung-worms of sheep,
etc. Lung-worms of horses and cattle. Gape-worm of fowls. Verminous
bronchitis in calves, sheep, swine and birds.
DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY CRGANS.
These are of the first importance in domestic animals
alike as regards their frequency and the mortality and
other serious consequences they entail. In young horses
especially they are far more common and more destructive
than any other class of diseases. Among the general
causes of diseases of this class of organs the following may
e stated in brief: 1. The great extent of the respiratory
surface in the lungs = 200 to 500 square feet. 2. The ex-
treme tenuity and delicacy of the membrane covering this
surface, protective cells (epithelium) being almost wanting
in the air cells, contrary to what exists on every other mu-
cous surface in the body. 5. The extraordinary work to
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which the lungs are subjected in the rapid paces and se-
vere efforts made by the horse. 4. The close, impure air
of the stable in contrast to the clear bracing air of the fields
to which the colt has been accustomed. 5. The effect of
the hot relaxing air of the stable is not only on the lungs
directly but on the skin with which the lungs and all in-
ternal organs so closely sympathize. 6. The heats and
chills, and violent nervous excitement to which young
horses are subjected in passing into training and work.
7. The changes of locality, feeding and management to
which young horses are subjected on leaving the breeder.
8. The variable weather and sudden, extreme changes of
spring and autumn. 9. The susceptibility which results
from the want of habitude of bearing extreme heat and
cold, and which tells especially at the above seasons. 10.
The draughts of cold air to which animals are often sub-
jected, and particularly when warm and perspiring. 11.
The frequent exposure to cold drenching rains, night dews
and the like, after the excitement and relaxation consequent
ona hard day’s work. 12. The arrest of circulation through
the lungs owing to imperfect eration of the blood when an
animal out of condition is driven at a pace beyond his
power of endurance.
Modes of Physical Exploration of the Respiratory Organs.
Auscultation and percussion are the most essential. The
first is the application of the ear alone or with a stetho-
scope to the surface over some part of the respiratory or-
gans (nose, throat, windpipe, chest,) to listen to the natural
sounds of breathing and to detect any unnatural change
or absence of these sounds. The natural sounds must be
studied on the healthy animal, and then the different mod-
ifications followed on the diseased. In general terms there
is a blowing sound to be heard in health over the nose,
throat, windpipe, and between the upper and middle
thirds of the chest. In the rest of the chest is a soft, rus-
thng murmur which has been compared to the gentlest
zephyr stirring dry leaves. Just behind the left elbow in
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horses this murmur is absent and replaced by the sounds
of the heart. Between the upper and middle thirds of the
chest it mingles with the blowing sound anteriorly, but is
unaccompanied by that over the few last ribs. Percussion
consists in drawing out the resonance of any part by strik-
ing it gentle taps with a hard object, the blows falling per-
pendicularly to its surface, and of a force proportioned to
the depth of the organ it is meant to sound. ‘Thus, for the
surface, the gentlest taps with the tip of the finger are
wanted, while for the centre of the chest in large animals,
the closed fist may be advantageously used. For inter-
mediate depths the four fingers and thumb may be brought
together, in a straight line at their tips, and the surface
tapped with this. When a cavity, enclosed by a hard
bony surface, such as the nose, is being sounded, it is well
enough to tap this direct, but if the surface is soft, as In
the chest of fat and fleshy animals, a hard, solid body
should be pressed firmly upon it and the taps delivered
upon this. As the different parts of the right hand may
be used for delivering the taps, so may the two middle fin-
gers of the left hand be employed to compress the soft
parts and receive them. The front of the fingers should
be applied against the surface and the hard bony backs
turned out to receive the taps. If percussion is made over
a hollow space, like the nose or windpipe, the sound is
drum-like ; if over an open, spongy tissue, like the lung, it
is much loss so but still full and clear, but if over a solid
body, like the thigh, it is dull, dead, or quite wanting in
resonance. Behind the left elbow such dull sound is met
with in the horse and, to a less extent, in cattle; and on
the last ribs on the right side in cattle, sheep and pigs a
similar dullness is found in accordance with the position
of the liver. Any increase, diminution or loss of reso-
nance over particular parts thus becomes of great value as
indicating the healthy or unnatural state of the parts.
But the observer must learn this matter by experience on
the healthy and diseased. These hints are a thrown
out to make what will follow intelligible.
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BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE.
Bleeding from the nose is rather rare in animals, and
usually results from disease or injury to the mucous mem-
brane or to violent exertions in coughing, sneezing, draw-
ing heavy loads uphill, or with a tight collar, and espe-
cially in animals with a plethoric habit.
Symptoms. Bleeding in drops (rarely in a stream) from
one nostril only, accompanied by sneezing, and without
frothing or sour odor. Bleeding from the lungs comes
from both nostrils, is bright-red, frothy and accompanied
by a cough. Bleeding from the stomach also comes from
both nostrils, and is black, clotted, sour, and attended by
retching.
Treatment. ie the head short up to a high rack or beam,
cover head and neck with bags of ice or rugs wrung out of
cold water, and blow matico powder or strong alum water
in spray into the nose during inspiration. In obstinate
cases, the nose may be plugged with pledgets of tow, tied
with a soft cord by which they may be withdrawn when
the bleeding subsides. Both nostrils must not be plugged
in horses unless tracheotomy has first been performed.
Internally, may be given gallic acid, acetate of lead, per-
chloride of iron or ergot of rye. .
NASAL CATARRH.- COLD IN THE HEAD.
This results from the general causes above mentioned
and from irritant gases, vapors, etc.
Symptoms. Sneezing, redness and watering of the eyes,
and redness of the membrane of the nose which is at first
dry, afterwards discharges a clear watery fluid and finally a
yeilowish-white muco-purulent matter. In mild cases
there is little or no fever, in the more severe fever may
run high.
Treatment. In mild cases rest in a clear, airy, warm
building with suitable clothing and warm bran mashes is
all that is necessary. In the more severe steam the nose
as for strangles, and slightly charge the air with the fumes
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of burning sulphur, give warm water injections or even
a mild laxative, (horse, ox or sheep, Glauber salts; dog or
pig, castor oil), followed by refrigerant diuretics (nitre,
acetate of potassa, etc.). If debility ensues feed well and
Fig. 11:
Fig. 11—Syphon for injecting the nose.
sive tonics (gentian, etc.,) and stimulants (spirits of nitrous
ether). Chronic discharges may usually be promptly
checked by injecting the nose with a weak astringent
solution (sulphate of zinc 4 dr., glycerine 1 oz., tepid
water 1 qt.) This is thrown in with a syphon haying one
arm sixteen inches long and the other leaving that at an
angle of 45°, three and a half inches long and narrowing to
half an inch at the point. The short limb is inserted into
the nostril, having first been passed through a hole in the
centre of a piece of sole leather intended to prevent the
return of the fiuid from the nose. The adaptation is
perfected by pledgets of tow, and the head being brought
into a vertical position the liquid is poured into the long
end of the syphon until it rises in that nasal chamber
and escapes by the opposite nostril. One or two such in-
jections are usually sufficient.
COLLECTION OF MATTER IN THE NASAL SINUSES.
This is common after severe colds in the horse; and as
the result of blows on the forehead or horns in oxen, of
injuries from the yoke, etc.; in sheep from grub in the
head (larva of Gstrus Ovis) ; mm dogs and horses from the
pentastomata, and in all animals aes diseases of the i
back teeth.
Symptoms. A more or less constant discharge from
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the nose, foetid if long retained, and above all if from a dis-
eased tooth, a dullness on percussion on that side of the
face between the eyes or just beneath the eyes, and occa-
sionally heat, tenderness and even swelling of these parts,
especially below the eye.
Treatment. ‘Trephine the bone to one side of the
median line of the forehead, in the interval between the
eyes, and again, an inch above the end of the bony ridge
which extends down beneath the eye, and wash out daily,
at first with tepid water and finally with the injection
recommended for the nose. In the case of parasites
these must be rinsed out. Sometimes a slight collection
of this kind will recover under injections for the nose
and the persistent use of sulphate of iron or copper,
or other tonic. If there is a diseased tooth it will be
recognized by the dropping of food half-chewed, by
the swelling and tenderness around the fang of the
tooth and by the intolerable foetor which clings to the
fingers when a balling iron has been placed in the mouth
and the tooth examined with the hand. Such a tooth
must be extracted with large forceps, if already loosened,
or if not, an opening should be made upon its fang with a
trephine and the offending tooth driven out with a punch
and mallet. But there is much danger of in?uring impor-
tant vessels and nerves unless the operator is thoroughly
conversant with anatomy.
ABSCESS OF THE FALSE NOSTRIL.
This is common in young horses and appears as a slowly
increasing, inactive, tense, round swelling in the outer
part of the nostril. It is so firm as to feel solid but col-
lapses at once when opened. It should be laid open from
within the nose along its whole length and plugged with
tow till the raw edges have skinned over.
ABSCESS IN THE GUTTURAL POUCHES.
These are two cavities situated above the throat and pe-
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culiar to solipeds. Each has a small opening at its ante-
rior part through which any liquid within them can escape
only when the head is depressed. Hence a collection of
matter in these sacs, consequent on a sore throat, escapes
and is discharged through the nose intermittently when
the head is down drinking, or still more in grazing or nib-
bling roots. The discharge comes from both nostrils and
there may or may not be swelling beneath the ear. Many
such cases will recover if sent to grass or fed from the
eround and treated with some of the tonics recommended
for chronic catarrh or glanders. But should these fail the
sac must be laid open, setoned and washed out daily with
a weak astringent lotion. This operation requires the
most accurate knowledge of the parts to avoid the many
important structures in the region. (See the authovr’s lar-
ger work.)
TUMORS IN THE NOSE.
Tumors of almost every kind grow in the nose and must
be removed by surgical means.
MALIGNANT CATARRH OF CATTLE.
This appears mainly in cold, damp, marshy situations
where the vitality is impaired, or in unusual seasons. In
the cold early summer of 1875 I met with it in cows
in several marshy places. Low, damp river-bottoms are
most subject to it and probably it is due to deleterious
agents taken in with the food and water as well as to chills
and exposure.
Symptoms. A slight diarrhoea may be followed by cos-
tiveness, the dung being black, firm and scanty. The
hair is rough and erect, shivering ensues, the head is de-
pressed, the roots of the horns and forehead hot, eyes
sunken, red, watery, with turbidity in the interior and in-
tolerance of light, muzzle dry and hot, mouth hot with
much saliva, the membranes of mouth, nose and vagina
bluish-red, pulse rapid, impulse of heart weak, breathing
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hurried, cough, urine scanty and high-colored and surface of
the body alternately hot and cold. In twenty-four hours
all the symptoms are aggravated, the nose discharges a
slimy fiuid, 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 diarrhcea 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
Catile Plague but is rarely contagious.
Treatment. Clear out the bowels by a laxative (olive
oul and laudanum), following this up by slightly stimulat-
ing diuretics (sweet spirits of nitre, iquor of acetate of
ammonia,) with antiseptics (chlorate of potassa, bichro-
mate 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
sliced or pulped roots allowed.
SORE-THROAT.
This may be confined to the larynx or upper end of the
windpipe (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 involved
(laryngo-pharyngitis). There are, besides, the sore-throats
connected with specific diseases (croup, diphtheria, in-
fluenza, strangles, distemper and purpura).
The causes of simple sore-throat are the same as those
of nasal catarrh. Bots in the throat may cause it in
horses.
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Symptoms. The nose is raised and protruded, the head —
being carried stiffly and more in a line with the neck than
usual, and there is swelling of the throat or beneath the
roots of the ears. There is cough, hard in laryngitis, and
dry and husky in pharyngitis, and, later, loose and gur-
sling in both diseases. With laryngitis there is much ten- —
derness to touch, and, in the early stages, a loud, harsh
blowing sound which may become loose and rattling as
the disease advances. With pharyngitis there is a little
tenderness, but difficulty in swallowing, chewed morsels
being often dropped again and water rejected through the
nose. The discharge from the nose is more glairy than in
nasal catarrh or bronchitis, and on its appearance the act-
ive fever usually subsides in great part. If there is much
redness of the membrane of the nose, and high fever, the
case is likely to be severe, and the same is true of cases with
a painful, paroxysmal cough.
In Chronic Sore-throat there may appear to be general
good health, but a cough comes on in paroxysms when the
patient comes into the cold air, drinks cold water, eats dry
oats or dusty hay or undergoes active exertion. There are
also more or less tenderness and wheezing or rattling in
the throat, and sometimes slight swelling.
Treatment. Rest in a clean, dry, airy stable or box.
Clothe warmly and flannel bandage the legs if cold or
tending to shiver. Tie a rug or sheep-skin with wool in
around the neck. Steam the nose as for strangles. Unless
the fever and pulse are low or the affection of an influenza
type, a laxative is usually beneficial (horse, aloes; ox
and sheep, Glauber salts; dog and pig, castor oil ;) following
up with nitre or acetate of potassa in the water, and ano-
dynes as electuaries. Solid extract of belladonna 4 drs. ;
tannic acid 1 dr.; bisulphite of soda 4 drs.; honey me
syrup 5 oz.; mix. Dose—horse and ox a piece as large as
a hickory nut; sheep one-fourth, dog one-tenth of this bulk,
thrice daily. To be smeared on the back teeth and swal-
lowed at leisure.
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In most cases, a thin pulp, made with mustard and
water, should be well rubbed in around the throat as soon
as the bowels respond, and covered up for two hours, but,
in the most severe, this may be preceded for a day or two _
by a linseed poultice. The diet throughout must be
green, soft mashes or roots.
CROUP.
Especially seen in young animals (calves, lambs, foals,)
in cold and damp or high exposed localities. The symp-
toms are those of severe sore-throat (laryngitis) coming on
very suddenly with hard croupy cough and dry wheezing
breathing, worse at one time than another or heard only
at particular times of the day (morning, night,) when
spasms of the larynx come on. But the most characteris-
tic symptom is the formation of albuminoid false mem-
branes as white films or pellicles in the throat, and which
are discharged in shreds on the second or third day.
Fever runs very high, pulse ninety to one hundred, tem-
perature 107°, and even higher.
Treatment. Give a warm, well-aired building, with
water-vapor set free in the atmosphere, if possible ; warm
clothing, a laxative (sulphate of soda) with antispasmodic
(laudanum, aconite, chloral-hydrate, lobelia); follow up
with small doses of sulphate of soda, chlorate of potassa
and antispasmodics, giving each dose in well-boiled linseed
tea, slippery elm or marsh-mallow. Blister the neck ac-
tively (mustard, with or without oil of turpentine,) and, if
necessary, Swab out the throat with a solution of nitrate
of silver ten grs., water one oz., applied by a small sponge
immovyably tied on a piece of whalebone. In the worst
cases suffocation must be obviated by opening the wind-
pipe in the middle of the neck and inserting a tube to
breathe through. In horses a ring must not be completely
cut across, but a semicircular piece cut out of each of two
adjacent ones. Sometimes stimulants (wine whey, car-
bonate of ammonia,) and tonics (gentian, cinchona,) must
be used to sustain the failing strength.
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CROUP OR ROUP IN FOWLS.
Causes. Probably similar to those acting on quadru-
peds. Exciting diet (wheat, buckwheat, oats,) seems at
times injurious. Newly-arrived fowls are most lable to
contract it, yet it does not seem contagious in the ordi-
nary sense, but rather inherent in soil, locality or condi-
tions of life.
Symptoms. Dullness, sleepiness, neglect of food, ruffled
feathers, unsteady walk, quickened breathing, with a
hoarse wheeze, and an occasional loud crowing noise. On
the tongue, at the angle of union of the beak, or in the
throat appear yellowish white films (/alse membranes)
firmly adherent to a reddened surface, and raw sores
where these have been detached. The nostrils may be
completely plugged with swelling and discharge so that
breath can only be drawn through the open bill. The in-
flammation may extend along the windpipe to the erial
cavities and lungs, or along the gullet to the intestines. In
the first case, death may take place from suffocation, and
in the second, from diarrhcea, and as early as in twenty-four
hours. Toward the end of an outbreak, the malady may
last twenty days and still prove fatal. False membranes
may form on other distant parts of the body, but espe-
cially the comb, wattles, eye, or on accidental sores.
Treatment. Disuse raw grain, and feed on vegetables,
and puddings made of well-boiled oat, barley or Indian
meal. Dissolve carbonate or sulphate of soda, or chlo-
rate of potassa freely in the water drunk, remove the
false membranes with a feather or forceps and apply to
the surface with a feather the nitrate of silver lotion ad-
vised for croup in quadrupeds. If diarrhoea supervenes,
give a teaspoonful of quinia wine thrice a day. It is all-
important to change the run of the chickens for a time at
least.
DIPHTHERIA.
This is seen in pigs and it is even claimed to occur in
horses, but the false membranes in the latter animals
rarely amount to more than thickened mucus. It appears
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to be due to the locality rather than contagion. Close,
filthy pens, and want of care have appeared injurious in
some cases.
Symptoms. Sudden illness, with sore-throat and ex-
treme weakness and stiffness of back and loins. The pig
moves slowly and crouchingly with raised head, open dry
mouth, hoarse nasal grunt, livid tongue, and red swollen
throat with grayish-white patches of false membranes.
The eyes are dull and sunken and the appetite gone. In
a few hours all the structures of throat and nose are in-
volved, there is much swelling and threatened suffocation
and shreds of false membrane are coughed up. The pa-
tient remains down, sits on his haunches, or leans on the
fence and usually perishes in a fit of coughing.
Treatment. Must be early to succeed, hence, examine
the throat for false membranes in all cases of sore-throat
in pigs, holding the animal with a noose around the upper
jaw. If white patches are seen, apply at once and freely
the nitrate of silver lotion advised for croup, and repeat
as often as may seem necessary to keep the diseased
erowths in check. The bowels may be freely opened by
a purgative (jalap) and twenty drops of tincture of the mu-
_riate of iron, and ten grains nitre given thrice a day in a
table-spoonful of cold water. Great attention must be
given to the comfort and to secure soft, easily-digestible
food for some time.
CHRONIC ROARING IN HORSES.
This is a wheezing, whistling or hoarse rasping sound
made in the upper part of the windpipe (larynx) in breath-
ing and especially when excited. It is usually due to
paralysis and wasting of the muscles on the left side of
the larynx and which open the channel for the air, and in
Such cases the noise is only made in drawing air in. But
any obstruction in the large air tubes will give rise to
roaring, heard most commonly in both inspiration and
expiration. Thus palsy of the nostrils, fracture and de-
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pression of the bones of the nose, tumors in the nose,
throat, windpipe or bronchi, false membranes extending
across the air passages, dropsical swelling about the
throat, and in stallions undue accumulations of fat, may
give rise to it. In the typical form with palsy of the
laryngeal muscles the animal grunts (groans) when led up
to a wall and a feint is made to strike him on the ribs.
Tf galloped up a steep hill or over a newly-plowed field,
or even for some distance on level ground, the roaring
is strikingly brought out. The same holds good if made
to draw a heavy load or one with the wheels dragged..
Treatment. In incipient cases with simple thickening
of the mucous membrane, benefit may arise from swabbing
out the larynx with nitrate of silver solution, as recom-
mended for croup, or firmg the skin over the throat with
a red-hot iron. But if the muscles are wasted and fatty
these means will be fruitless, and we must look to mechan-
ical or surgical measures for help. Pads attached to the
nose-band of the bridle and so arranged that they will
lie on the false nostrils and check somewhat the ingress of
air will enable many roarers to do moderate work
with comparative comfort. In the worst cases, in which
the animal is rendered useless, tracheotomy may be per-
formed and the animal made to breathe through a tube
inserted in the middle of the neck. Or finally, the larynx
may be laid open with the knife, and the flap of gristle
(arytenoid), which is drawn in, valve-like, over the opening
by the current of air, cut off.
Some cases of roaring due to feeding on vetches, ( Lath-
yrus Sativa or Cicera,) may be cured by changing the
feed, and giving some doses of nux vomica. Others due
to dropsical effusions appear intermittently and may be
benefited by tonics and iodide of potassium, with hard,
dry feeding and exercise. Tumors and other mechanical
obstructions must be removed with the knife.
Finally roaring is often hereditary in horses with a nar-
row space between the jaws and thick short neck, with
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badly set on head, and such should be rejected for breed-
ing purposes.
BRONCHITIS.
Inflammation of the large air tubes within the lungs.
Jt may be looked upon as an extension downward of nasal
catarrh or sore-throat and frequently supervenes on one
or the other of these. Otherwise it owns the same gen-
eral causes with these affections. It may also attend on
influenza, strangles, contagious pleuro-pneumonia, dis-
temper in dogs, tuberculosis, and parasitic diseases of the
lungs.
Symptoms. In mild cases there are dullness, impaired ap-
petite, hot dry mouth, red membrane of nose, accelerated.
pulse and breathing, and a cough at first hard but becom-
ing soft and rattling as discharge is established from the.
nose. Such may recover in a few days without treatment.
In severe cases there is dullness, inappetence, hot dry
mouth, increased temperature, rapid pulse, labored breath-
ing with loud blowing sounds over the lower end of the
windpipe and behind the middle of the shoulder-blade.
The cough is dry, hard, sonorous and painful (barking),
often occurring in fits and seeming to come from the depth
of the chest. Percussion detects no change of resonance
at any part of the chest, as in pneumonia. The membrane
of the nose has a dark red or violet hue, varying in pro-
portion to the general implication of the bronchial tubes
and especially the smaller ones, and there is drowsiness
and drooping of the head in the same ratio.
From the second to the fourth day a whitish discharge
sets in from the nose, the cough becomes soft and rattling,
the noise over the windpipe and behind the shoulder-
blade less harsh and blowing, but with a shght rattle from
bursting bubbles, and the symptoms of fever abate. From
this time improvement dates, and recovery may be com-
plete in two or three weeks.
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Solipeds stand obstinately throughout the disease,
other animals may le. There is no tenderness on punch-
ing the ribs, as in pleurisy.
Treatment. Rest in a warm, dry, airy building, clothe
warmly, bandage the limbs in cold weather and give warm
sloppy mashes of wheat bran. A laxative is often useful
but if there is weakness, small pulse, prostration or any
yellowish tinge of the mucous membranes, is to be rejected
and warm water injections used in place to move the
bowels. Give frequent diuretics (nitre, sweet spirits of
nitre,) anodynes (belladonna, lobelia, aconite,) and expec-
torants (liquor ammonia acetatis, oxymel of squill, guaia-
cum, ipecacuanha, antimony). The nose should be fre-
quently steamed, as if for strangles, and inhalations of sul-
phur fumes mixed with the air, and not too strong, may
be added. Mustard or other blisters should be applied to
the sides of the chest, and repeated if any renewed access
of disease seems to demand it. When fever has nearly
subsided and there is left only a white discharge from the
nose tonics should be used. (See those recommended for
glanders. ) |
When there is much prostration and weakness, stimu-
lants (aromatic ammonia, carbonate of ammonia, wine,
etc.,) may be required, even in the early stages.
GLANDER HEAVES. CHRONIC BRONCHITIS IN HORSES.
This arises from the same causes as the acute disease
and often follows it. It is characterized by a frequent
weak wheezing, husky, almost inaudible cough, often oc-
curring in fits; a white discharge from the nose, with
white flocculi, like buttermilk; great shortness of breath
in exertion ; and a mucous rattle in the lungs. Percussion
shows increased resonance over the lower and posterior
borders of the lungs. The right side of the heart may be
enlarged and easily felt beating behind the right elbow.
Treatment is not very satisfactory in cases of old stand-
ing. Feeding should be mainly of soft mashes, roots and
,
Diseases of the Respiratory Organs. 87
other laxative agents, but never bulky. Linseed, oat, bar-
ley or corn meal may be given wet and hay replaced by
corn-stalks or good fresh grass. Finally give tonics,
mainly arsenite of strychnia, or sulphate of iron or copper
and tannic acid.
ACUTE CONGESTION OF THE LUNGS IN HORSES.
This is always the first stage of Pneumonia but may oc-
cur in a sudden and fatal form from overexertion in fat
or otherwise ill-conditioned horses. An animal that has
stood idle in the stable or has been rapidly fattened for
sale, when taken out and driven or ridden at the top of his
speed soon hangs heavily on the bit, slackens his speed,
and if not stopped, staggers and falls; or the exertion is
- passed through but the animal is seized when returned to
the stable. He then stands with dilated nostrils, quick,
labored, convulsive, wheezy breathing, extended head,
staring bloodshot eyes, agonized expression, deep red or
blue nasal membrane and rapid, weak pulse often almost
imperceptible at the jaw. Auscultation detects a loud
respiratory murmur and the finest possible crepitating
sound. The heart is felt behind the left elbow beating
tumultuously and the limbs are cold, though perspiration
may break out at different parts of the body. I blood
is drawn it flows in a dark, tarry-looking stream and the
lungs after death might be compared to a dark-red jelly. _
Treatment. Remove girths, saddles and whatever may
hamper breathing, turn the head to the wind, give dn act-
ive stimulant (alcohol or alcoholic liquors, ammonia or
any of its compounds, oil of turpentine, ether, sweet spir-
its of nitre, ginger, pepper,) the first that comes to hand,
in a full dose, following up with warm water injections and
active hand rubbing. In extreme cases prompt relief may
often be obtained by bleeding from the jugular, but this
should not replace the measures already advised but
should be added to them. An excellent resort when avail-
able is to wrap from head to tail in rugs wrung out of hot
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water and cover thickly with dry ones, the limbs being
meanwhile actively hand-rubbed to bring the blood to this
part of the skin which the rug cannot reach.
If the patient survives and does not at once entirely re-
cover the case becomes one of pnewmonia.
PNEUMONIA. INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS.
Causes. The same as in other acute diseases of the
chest. Also the result of overexertion and acute conges-
tion, or of parasites in the lung.
Symptoms. Tf not followmg an acute congestion as
above described there is shivering, more or less severe ac-
cording to the gravity of the attack, and usually a dry
cough. This is followed by hot skin, with increased tem-
perature, quick but deep labored breathing and a full but
oppressed rolling pulse, redness of the membranes of the
eye, nose and mouth; the cough is deep as if from the
depth of the chest but not so hard nor so painful as in bron-
chitis. The horse always, and the ox, in bad cases, obstinate-
ly stands with legs apart, elbows turned out, nose extended
and usually approached to a door or window. In cattle expi-
ration is generally accompanied by amoan. With the fever
there is costiveness, high-colored, scanty urine, in cattle,
heat of horns and ears and dryness of muzzle, and hide-
bound. Auscultation detects a very fine crackling (crepi-
tation) over the affected part of the lung or there may be
an area of no sound encircled by a line of crepitation and
beyond that by the normal murmur slightly increased.
Or over the dull spot the blowing sounds from the larger
tubes or the beating of the heart may be detected. Per-
cussion causes flinching or even groaning when the affected
part is reached; the space where sound was wanting in
auscultation sounds dull and solid and the remainder of
the chest retains its healthy resonance. There is no ten-
derness on merely pinching the spaces between the ribs.
By auscultation and percussion the increase or decrease
of solidification (hepatization) of the lang may be followed
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from day to day excepting in the parts covered by the
thick, muscular shoulder. In this way aggravation and
improvement can be noticed. A yellowish or whitish dis-
charge from the nose comes on as the disease advances.
Treatment. Give a pure, dry, airy box with windows
or doors turned to the sun or away from the direction of
prevailing winds, clothe warmly, and flannel-bandage the
limbs, or even rub them with ammonia and oil. The hot
rugs advised for congested lungs may be applied, and
when removed let it be done a little at a time, and the
part rubbed dry and covered by a dry blanket. Ora
mustard poultice may be applied to the sides of the chest.
Large injections of warm water and drinks of warm gruel
may also be given. A laxative is often beneficial in the
more active forms of the disease, but should be given cau-
tiously as in bronchitis, and rejected when there is low
fever, and much depression. Neutral salts (nitre, acetate
of potassa, bicarbonate of soda,) should be given with
sedatives (belladonna, henbane, tincture of aconite, digi-
talis or white hellebore ; in pigs and dogs, tartar emetic,)
or if there is much prostration, or when the fever has in
the main subsided, stimulant diuretics (sweet spirits of
nitre, liquor of acetate of ammonia,) repeated three or four
times a day. The sides should be blistered with a pulp
of the best ground mustard in water, or Spanish flies, or
in cattle and swine, mustard and turpentine, and the blis-
ter may be repeated with advantage in protracted cases.
When in severe cases the blister refuses to rise, the skin
may be first warmed with rugs wrung out of boiling water
and then the application of the blister made. Or a hot
shovel held near the blistered surface may determine an
active flow of blood to the skin and the rising of the blis-
ter. When well risen the surface must be kept soft by
sweet oil or fresh lard to favor healing. In chickens it is
advised to open the bowels by a teaspoonful of castor-oil,
and shake one-twelfth grain of tartar emetic on the tongue
twice a day. If very weak or prostrate give a teaspoonful
of sherry thrice a day.
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PLEURISY. INFLAMMATION OF THE MEMBRANE LINING THE
CHEST AND COVERING THE LUNGS.
This is common in all domestic animals and particularly
in cold, exposed localities, which suffer at the same time
from rheumatism. Otherwise it owns the general causes
of chest disease.
Symptoms. Shivering, followed by heat of the skin and
even of the limbs, and partial sweats of the surface, un-
easy movements, pawing and sometimes looking at the
flanks, lymg down and rising. If one side of the chest
only is involved that fore limb is often advanced in front
of the other. The pulse is rapid, hard and incompressible,
and the breathing highly characteristic. It is hurried,
carried on chiefly by the abdominal muscles, and has the
inspiration short and suddenly checked, while the expira-
tion is slow and prolonged. ‘This character of the breath-
ing may be well observed with the ear placed on the false
nostril, on the windpipe or on the side of the chest.
There is a prominent ridge on the abdomen from the outer
angle of the hip bone to the lower ends of the last ribs.
By handling the spaces between the ribs a point is
reached which is exceedingly tender, the patient flinching
and even groaning when it is touched. The ear applied
to the same spot detects a soft, rubbing sound during the
movements of inspiration and expiration. There is at
first no other change in auscultation or percussion. The
animal often changes his posture or place as if seeking
an easier position, and emits a short, hacking, painful
cough. There is much less redness of the nose than in
pneumonia or bronchitis, less heat of the expired air and
no nasal discharge.
In twenty-four to thirty-six hours effusion ensues in
the cavity of the chest, the rubbing sound ceases, the
catching breathing and ridge on the belly disappear, the
pulse becomes soft, the anxiety of countenance passes
away, and the patient may begin to feed as if well. But
soon the pulse loses its fullness, and gains in rapidity,
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breathing becomes labored and attended with a lifting of
the flank and loins, the nostrils are widely dilated, the
nose protruded, the elbows turned out, the skin sweats,
and there may be signs of imminent suffocation. Auscul-
tation detects no sound over the lower part of the chest up
to a given horizontal line, and up to the same level there
is dullness on percussion. This shows the extent of wa-
tery effusion. The pulse becomes weak, with a peculiar
thrill at each beat, the limbs and lower aspect of the
chest swell, the patient moves unsteadily and falls sud-
denly to die.
In other cases the effusion is re-absorbed and a good
recovery is made. In others it ceases to increase but fails
to be taken up and remains as a cause of short wind; it
may even give off gases, in which case a gurgling sound
may be heard in the chest, or a sound as of drops falling
into a half-empty barrel, after the patient rises from the
recumbent position. In other cases still there remain
false membranes attaching the lung to the inner sides of
the ribs, or enveloping the lung in whole or in part, and in
either case impairing respiration.
Treatment. Give the same general care as in bronchitis
and pneumonia. In the early stages of chill treat as for
congested lungs. Later give a laxative (horse, aloes; ox
and sheep, Glauber salts; swine and dogs, castor-oil,)
_ following it up with neutr a salts (nitre, acetate of potassa,
liquor of the acetate of ammonia,) in full doses, and ano-
dynes (digitalis, aconite). These may be used in the
fullest doses after effusion has taken place, and in weak
_ subjects stimulants (sweet spirits of nitre, ether, alcoholic
liquids, tincture of gentian,) should be added. Iodide of
_ potassium may also be given internally and tincture of
iodine rubbed on the chest.
In very severe cases, a large linseed poultice may be
applied over the chest, or it may be shaven and subjected.
to dry cupping, or an active blister may be applied as for
pneumonia.
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Tf there is extreme effusion threatening suffocation the
liquid must be drawn off by a small cannula and trocar ~
(see Tympany) inserted at the anterior border and near
the lower end of the ninth rib, the skin having first been
drawn aside to form a valvular wound, and great care
being taken to prevent the entrance of air. The liquid
should be drawn off only in part at first to avoid shock,
and the operation repeated in a day or two. It should be
followed by tonics (sulphate of iron, tincture of gentian,)
stimulants (sweet spirits of nitre) and diuretics (iodide of
potassium).
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA, BRONCHO-PNEUMONIA, AND BRONCHO-
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA
Are common complications of the three diseases, bronchitis,
pneumoma and pleurisy and their respective symptoms
and treatment may be inferred from the description of the
uncomplicated affections.
HYDROTHORAX. WATER IN THE CHEST.
Beside the effusion of liquid into the cavity of the chest
in pleurisy, dropsical effusions may take place into it in
connection with weak, bloodless conditions, as in flukes in
the liver, disease of the heart, enlarged bronchial lym-
phatic glands and other morbid states. ‘The symptoms re-
semble those of hydrothorax following pleurisy, only there
is no fever, and there are the indications of those other
diseases on which it is dependent. The treatment is es-
sentially the same after the morbid condition which has
caused the effusion has been removed. If that is incur-
able neither can this be remedied.
PNEUMOTHORAX. AIR OR GAS IN THE CHEST.
This often attends on hydrothorax when the contained
liquid has undergone some decomposition. More fre-
quently it is the result of a wound penetrating the walls
of the chest with its edges pressed inward so that they ad-
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mit the air from without while the chest is dilating, but
close like a valve when it is contracting. A little thus
entering with each breath and none escaping, the lung
is soon compressed into a small solid mass against the
lower end of the windpipe. The same may happen from
a broken rib having torn the surface of the lung even
without any external wound. A little air escaping from
the lung with each respiration the cavity soon becomes
filled and the lung compressed and collapsed.
Treatment is limited to the prevention of the introduc-
tion of air through an external wound, should such exist ;
the relief of pain by opium and other anodynes ; the man-
agement of the resulting pleurisy on ordinary principles ;
and the drawing off of the accumulated air by a needle-
like tube and aspirator, or even by a small cannula and
trocar. Spontaneous recovery often takes place, the
wound being closed by inflammatory exudation and the
air absorbed. In cases dependent on decomposition of
the products, both gas and liquid should be drawn off and
a weak solution of carbolic acid (one part to two or three
hundred water) thrown in, in small quantity.
ABSCESS OF THE INTERCOSTAL SPACES.
This occurs especially in the horse as a result of pleu-
risy, a diffuse swelling appearing at some part of the walls
of the chest, tender and pitting on pressure, and, finally,
softening in the centre, bursting and discharging a yellow-
ish or whitish matter. The patient should be well fed,
and poultices or warm fomentations continuously applied
_ to the part until there is softening in the centre, when it
may be freely laid open. Continue to support the patient
by nourishing food, stimulants and tonics.
DROPSY OF THE LUNG.
This is mainly a result of valvular and other diseases of
the heart. To percussion and auscultation it gives nearly —
the same symptoms with pneumonia, but there is an entire
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absence of fever. The coexisting heart-disease also
serves to reveal its true nature. Its cause being usually
incurable, it terminates fatally in the majority of cases.
Treatment must be altogether directed to the disease of
the heart.
APOPLEXY OF THE LUNG.
In the lower animals extravasation of blood into the
substance of the lung is usually the result of profound al-
terations in that liquid as in Malignant Anthrax, Purpura
Hemorrhagica, Typhoid Fever or Intestinal Fever. A por-
tion of the lung tissue gives way and the blood escaping
raises the membrane covering it (pleura) from a half to
three inches above the natural level. The extravasation
has the appearance of a fine jelly and often preserves the
shape of the pulmonary lobules—a cone with the apex
turned in. Being usually a complication of another dis-
ease,treatment must be directed to that rather than the
local lesion.
PLEURODYNIA.
This is a term applied to rheumatism of the muscles be-
tween the ribs, which bears a strong resemblance to pleu-
risy. It may be distinguished by the coexistence of rheu-
matism in other parts and by the comparative absence of fe-
ver, cough, rubbing sounds and effusion. Treat it like
other forms of rheumatism.
ASTHMA IN DOGS.
A spasmodical affection of the circular muscular fibres
of the bronchial tubes, occurring in paroxysms with irreg-
ular intervals and associated with corpulence and disordered
digestion, distended or ruptured air-cells, mucous dis-
charges from the air-passages and dilatation of the right
side of the heart.
Causes. Usually in pet dogs pampered with highly sea-
soned articles of food, in excessive quantity, and deprived
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of exercise. A change of food or temperature, a smart
walk or run or indeed any exercise will bring it on.
Symptoms. Oorpulence is a constant condition at the
outset though the subject may be emaciated and worn out
in the advanced stages. A slight cough becomes frequent,
hard and sonorous, with habitually labored breathing ag-
erayated at intervals so as to threaten suffocation. Then
the patient stands with open mouth, pendent tongue and
staring eyeballs panting for breath and having his condi-
tion rendered still more threatening by every change of
position: or cause of excitement. The frequency and se-
verity of the attacks serve as a means of estimating the
danger of the patient. In the intervals between these
paroxysms may be noticed signs of indigestion, in a varia-
ble appetite, perhaps vomiting, a tumid tympanitic (bloated)
abdomen, constipation and piles. The skin is dry, harsh
and bald in patches, the teeth covered with tartar and the
breath foetid.
Treatment. 1. During a paroxysm. Cause to inhale
ether, chloroform, the fumes of burning stramonium or
of burning paper which has been steeped in a strong so-
lution of nitre ; or one or two teaspoonfuls of laudanum
with 2 oz. castor-oil may be thrown into the gut as an in-
jection. Or if there is reason to suspect overloading of
the stomach shake a grain of tartar emetic on the tongue.
2. In the intervals between the paroxysms. Check any ex-
isting bronchitis or pneumonia as advised in the earlier
pages of the book, and restrict to a very moderate diet of
- oat meal or corn meal mush, with skim-milk or buttermilk.
Exercise well but in no case for three hours after feeding.
Give a laxative of castor-oil twice a week. Wash fre-
_ quently with soap, drying afterward by rubbing, and brush
daily. A daily sedative (stramonium, tartar emetic,) is
_ beneficial, but in advanced stages and weak conditions,
vegetable tonics (quinia, gentian,) will be demanded.
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HEAVES. BROKEN WIND.
This is closely allied to asthma, but is more continuous
in its symptoms, and less paroxysmal.
Causes. Overfeeding on clover hay, sainfoin, lucern and
allied plants: on chaff, cut straw and other bulky and in-
nutritious food. In Arabia, in Spain, and in California
where there is no long winter feeding on hay, and in our
Territories where clover is not used, heaves is virtually
unknown ; it has advanced westward just in proportion as
clover hay has been introduced as the general fodder for
horses, and it has disappeared in England and New En-
eland in proportion as the soil has become clover sick and
as other aliment had to be supplied. The worst condi-
tions are when a horse is left in the stable for days and
weeks eating clover hay, or even imperfectly cured, dusty
hay of other kinds, to the extent of thirty pounds and up-
wards daily, and is suddenly taken out and driven at a
rapid pace. Violent exertions of any kind, and diseases
of the lungs are also potent causes. It is mainly a disease
of old horses but may attack the colt of two years old.
Finally, horses with small chests are most lable and thus
the disease proves hereditary.
Symptoms. There is a double lift of the flank with each
expiratory act, there being first a falling in of the abdom-
inal walls and then, after a perceptible interval, a rising
of the posterior part of the belly to complete the emptying
of the chest; also a short, dry, weak, almost maudible
cough, followed by a wheeze in the throat, and occurring
in paroxysms when violently exercised, when brought
from the stable into the cold air, or after a drink of cold
water. The breathing is accompanied by a wheezing noise
above all evident when the patient is excited by work, or
when the ear is applied on the side of the chest. In-
digestion is also a prominent symptom and manifested
by a ravenous appetite, even for filthy litter, by the fre-
quent passage of wind from the bowels, and often by
swelling and drum-like resonance of the abdomen. When
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starting on a journey the subjects pass dung very frequently
at first and after traveling some distance may go much
better. Their muscular systems are soft and flabby and
they run down rapidly in active work. Frequent aggrava-
tions of the symptoms may be seen in connection with
overloaded stomach, costiveness, a hot close stable, a
thick muggy atmosphere, or a very severe day’s work.
The symptoms may be temporarily masked or hidden
by restriction in diet, abstinence from water and the use
of sedatives, but there remains an unnatural action of the
nostrils, and a full drink of water, and above all a free _
supply of water and hay will bring back the symptoms in
all their intensity.
Treatment. Turning out on natural pastures or feeding
ecornstalks or other laxative food will relieve, and even —
cure mild and recent cases. Feeding on dry grain with
carrots, turnips, beets, or potatoes and a very limited
supply of water will enable many broken-winded horses to
do a fair amount of work in comfort. Hay should never be
allowed except at night and then only a handful clean
and sweet. The bowels must be kept easy by laxatives
(sulphate of soda 2 or 3 oz.), the stable well aired, and
sedatives (digitalis, opium, belladonna, hyoscyamus, stra-
monium, lobelia,) used to relieve the oppression. If a
white discharge from the nose coexists. tonics should be
given as for chronic bronchitis, to which wild-cherry bark
may be added. Tar water as the exclusive drink is often
useful and a course of carminatives (ginger, caraway,
cardamoms, fennel, foenugrec,) may be added with advan-
tage. But nerve tonics and above all arsenic in 5 grain
doses daily, and continued for a month or two, are espe-
cially valuable.
No broken-winded horse should have food or water for
from one to two hours before going to work.
BLEEDING FROM THE LUNGS.
May occur in any of our domestic animals as a result of
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excessive plethora, overexertion, disease of the heart or
tuberculosis. If in limited quantity, the blood comes from
the nostrils and mouth of a light red and frothy and with
eoughing. If in greater amount it may fill the bronchial
tubes and cause death suddenly by stffocation without
much escape by the nose.
Treatment. When brought on by severe exertion per-
fect rest and quiet will check. Keeping the head elevated,
cold applied to the head and neck, iced drinks acidulated
with vinegar or mineral acids, are useful. Opium benefits
_ by checking the cough, and in obstinate cases acetate of
lead, ergot of rye, matico, tincture of muriate of iron, or
oul of turpentine may be given internally three times a
day. temove costiveness with Glauber salts and keep in
a cool airy place at rest for at least a fortnight.
PARASITES IN THE UPPER AIR PASSAGES.
The GRus IN THE Huan of Sheep is the larva of a small
gadfly (distrus Ovis) which deposits the live embryo on the
Fig. 12. Fig. 13.
Fig. 12—(Estrus ovis, Clark. Fig. 13—Larva of ditto.
margin of the nostril, whence it creeps up into the nasal si-
nuses. It stays there during the winter and spring, often
proving harmless but sometimes causing much irritation,
redness of the nostrils, and a white, muco-purulent dis-
charge, with dullness and stupor from sympathetic disease
of the brain. To prevent the attacks of the fly the sheep |
should be fed salt from two-inch augur holes bored in a
log, the surface of which is smeared with tar, so that they
get a dressing every time they partake. A less satis-
maa
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factory method is to turn up a furrow in the pasture so
that the sheep may push their noses into the ground when
attacked.
Treatment. Place in a warm building to tempt the
larve from the sinuses and introduce snuff, solutions of
salt, vinegar or tobacco, weak solutions of turpentine, etc.,
into the nose to kill them or cause their expulsion by sneez-
ing. For such as remain in the sinuses the only success-
ful treatment is to trephine the bones of the face between
the front of the eye and the median line of the face, or
just in front of the root of the horn should that be present.
The sinus is then to be syringed out freely with tepid
water until the parasites are washed out.
The PENTASTOMA TENIOIDES is a species of acarus which
Fig. 14.
Fig. 14—Pentastoma Tzenioides,
lives in the nasal sinuses of horses and dogs, and in the
mesenteric glands of sheep and other herbivora. If pro-
ductive of much irritation in the nose it must be expelled
by a current of water after trephining the sinus.
PARASITES IN THE LOWER AIR PASSAGES.
The most common are the different forms of round
worms which in certain animals (lambs, calves, pigs,
birds,) may assume the dimensions of a plague and cause
enormous yearly losses to a country.
The sheep, goat, dromedary and camel harbor two round
worms in their air passages and lungs: the small Stron-
gylus Filaria, a thread-like worm of one to three and one-
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half inches long, and S. /tufescens of considerably greater
length. The cal/, horse, ass and mule have the Strongylus
Micrurus of from one and one-half to three inches long.
The pig, the Strongylus Elongatus of eight lines to one
and one-half inches long. Finally the bird (hen, turkey,
pheasant, black stork, magpie, hooded crow, green wood-
Fig. 15.
Fig. 15—Strongylus Filaria, male, enlarged, Thudicum. When adult,
should be at least five times the length for this thickness.
pecker, starling, swift, etc.,) have the Syngamus Trachealis,
male one-eighth inch, and female one-half to five-eighths
inch in length, always found united together, so that the
male appears like a process from the neck of the female.
The Strongyli in their mature condition inhabit the air
passages within the lungs but they may be reproduced
either in or out of the body. In the first mode the female
worm creeps into an air cell and there encysts her-
self and produces eggs or young worms already hatched,
or she dies and the myriad eggs, hatching out amid the
debris, the young worms finally migrate into the adja-
cent air passages, grow to maturity and reproduce their
kind. In the second mode the impregnated female worm
is expelled by coughing, and perishes in water or in
moist earth or on vegetables, and the eggs, escaping from
her decomposing remains, may lie unhatched for months
or even a year, or, in genial weather, may rapidly open
and allow the escape of the almost microscopic embryo
worms. These, in their turn, may live an indefinite
length of time in the water, or moist soil, or on vegetables,
and only begin to grow to their mature condition when
taken in by a suitable host with food or water. This is
true of those of the sheep, goat and camel, of that of the
ox, horse and ass, and of that of the pig. Only those of
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the sheep, once introduced into the system, will maintain
their place in the lungs for the whole lifetime of the host,
though no more young worms should be taken in. That
of the ox, etc., on the other hand, is more likely to be ex-
pelled, and, therefore, often infests its host but for a lim-
ited period. |
The Syngamus of the bird has probably the same history
out of the body, but this has not been so carefully studied.
Within the chest the Strongyli live in the small terminal
air passages In their young or embryo state, in the larger
air tubes when mature, and in cysts in the lung substance
when laying their eggs or when about to die that the eggs
may be set free and hatched. In the air passages they
give rise to bronchitis, in the lungs to pneumonia and
deposits resembling tubercles but distinguishable under
the microscope by the presence of the elliptical eggs and
the embryo worms.
The Syngamus of birds inhabits the air passages and
gives rise to bronchitis.
Tn all cases the parasites are most fatal to the young.
Although old animals continue to harbor them they prove
much less destructive and are often unsuspected.
SYMPTOMS IN CALVES AND FOALS. VERMINOUS BRONCHITIS.
HOOSE. HUSK.
These are essentially those of bronchitis, with the dif-
ference that the whole herd is affected and mucus
coughed up, containing worms either singly or rolled up
in bundles. There is at first only a shght rather husky
cough repeated at irregular intervals. There follows dry
staring coat, embarrassed breathing and advancing ema-
ciation. Soon the cough becomes frequent, paroxysmal
and suffocating, with expectoration of mucus and worms.
Or the cough is soft, loose and wheezing, and the patient
is weak, hide-bound, with sunken eyes and pale, thin or
puffy membranes, dropsical swellings beneath the jaws,
chest or belly, and no appetite; the sufferer may be found
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apart from its fellows in a corner or under a tree, covered
with flies and sinking rapidly into extreme debility and
death. Intestinal worms (in cattle, Strongylus Radiatus,
Sclerostomum Hypostomum, Ascaris Lumbricoides, Teenie
Expansa, etc., in foals, Sclerostomum Equinum, S. Tetra-
canthum, Ascaris Megalocephala, Oxyuris Curvula, ete.,)
usually coexist to a most injurious extent, causing diar-
rhoea and other irregularities of the bowels.
In the worst cases death may result ten or fifteen days
after the onset, though more commonly it is delayed two
or three months and recovery may take place.
Prevention. In localities and countries to which the
disease is new the parasites should be killed out by the
continuous medical treatment of the diseased animals, or
if necessary their destruction, and the separation of all
horses, asses, mules and cattle, from the infested pasture
or its vicinity and from any stream of water running
through or close to it; as well as from all fodder, roots,
grain, etc., grown on such land, for several years after.
In infested localities calves and foals should never be
pastured on land recently occupied by older stock of the
same kind or allowed access to water used by such stock.
Sheep, goats or pigs may be safely fed on such land.
Avoid overstocking. Drain the land to clear off pools or
wet spots. Keep the young stock from infested or sus-
pected pastures while wet with dew and rain, and from
clover and allied plants which by their moisture are lable
to harbor the worm. Suspected beasts should be kept
apart from the healthy and from healthy pastures until
subjected to thorough and continuous treatment. The
carcasses of the dead should be very deeply buried, or
better, the lungs and windpipe removed and burned to
ashes. All exposed animals should be well fed on a diet
including dry grain, and should be allowed salt to lick at
will, this being destructive to the young worms.
Treatment. Feed liberally on linseed cake, rape cake,
cotton cake, roots, maize, oats, beans or other sound nu-
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tritious diet to which may be added a mixture in equal
parts of sulphate of iron, gentian and ginger, in proportion
of four ounces to every ten calves of three months. To
destroy the intestinal worms, give every morning, fasting,
a tablespoonful of table salt or an equal amount of oil of
turpentine shaken up with milk. For the lung parasites,
place the affected animals in a close building and burn
pinch after pinch of flowers of sulphur on a piece of pa-
per laid on an iron shovel, until the air is as much charged
with the fumes as they can bear without coughing vio-
lently. The administrator must stay with them in the
building to avoid accidents and keep up the application
for half an hour at a time. It should be repeated several
days in succession, and at intervals of a week for several
weeks, so as to kill the young worms as they are hatched
out in successive broods, and not until all cough and ex-
citement of breathing have passed should the animal be
considered as safe to mix with others or to go on a healthy
pasture. 7
SYMPTOMS IN SHEEP, GOAT AND CAMEL. VERMINOUS BRONCHITIS.
These are the exact counterpart of those in the calf.
There is a short, dry, sonorous cough, with a frothy dis-
charge from the nose containing worms or their eggs, loss"
of appetite, rapid wasting, diarrhoea, shedding or drying
and flattening of the wool, excessive thirst and irregular
or depraved appetite, there beimg a disposition to eat
earth. In the advanced stages the cough becomes very
harassing and death may ensue from suffocation. Intes-
tinal parasites (Strongylus Contortus, S. Radiatus, S. Fili-
colis, Sclerostomum Hypostomun, Tena Expansa, and per-
haps Sclerostomum Duodenale,) are even more numerous
and injurious than in calves.
Prevention. All the measures advised for the disease in
calves will apply equally well here, with this proviso, that
the parasites only affect sheep, goat, dromedary and camel,
so that they only must be kept apart, while infested past-
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ures may be safely grazed by cattle, horses, asses or
mules. Nathusius obviated the attacks by keeping the
early lambs in sheds and boxes until May, and the late
ones until autumn, and by feeding in the same places on
roots and hay in wet weather. Abundant dry feeding and
a free access to salt are especially desirable.
Treatment. This is precisely the same as for calves.
The tonic mixture (iron, ginger and gentian,) may be giv-
en to the extent of two ounces to every ten three months
lambs daily. For the intestinal parasites, a teaspoonful
each of salt and oil of turpentine may be given in milk
every second day, before eating if possible. Fumigate
precisely as for the calf.
SYMPTOMS OF VERMINOUS BRONCHITIS IN PIGS.
Rayer and Bellingham supposed these parasites to be
harmless to pigs, but my experience agrees with that of
Deguileme, that they will accumulate in such numbers as
to cause bronchitis and death. 'The symptoms are essen-
tially the same as in other animals—the coughing up of
worms and eggs being the only reliable evidence of the
disease.
Prevention and treatment are essentially the same as for
lambs and calves.
SYMPTOMS IN BIRDS. GAPES.
Young turkeys or chickens a few days old frequently
open the mouth wide and gasp for breath, sneeze and
make efforts at swallowing. These movements become
more constant and severe, breathing is oppressed and
wheezing, and the litfle patients grow languid and dispir-
ited, droop and die. It is especially prevalent on old-es-
tablished farms with large flocks of fowls.
Treatment. The worms may be partly removed by a
feather stripped of all its plumes except at the tip, or still
better by a horse-hair twisted up so as to have a very fine
loop. The mouth being opened the feather or hair is
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passed into the opening seen in the middle of the tongue,
pushed to the lower end of the windpipe, turned round
several times and withdrawn, when a few worms will be
found attached. It may be repeated at intervals and is
still more effectual if the instrument is first dipped in oil,
salt water, or a weak solution of carbolic acid, tobacco or
sulphurous acid. The treatment is only partially success-
ful as it fails to remove worms lodged in the bronchial
tubes or air sacs. Cobbold made an incision in the wind-
pipe and extracted the worms with forceps, while Bartlett
succeeds with turpentine smeared on the neck and which
Fig. 16.
Fig. 16—Syngamus Trachealis. Gape-worm, nat. size, and enlarged.
is of course inhaled. A removal from the contaminated
eround, the supply of pure water (boiled if necessary) and
an abundance of nourishing diet are essential elements of
treatment.
Prevention. Burn all the worms extracted from the air
passages. Keep fowis from ground and houses which are
known to be infested; until they have been soaked ina
strong solution of salt or with crude carbolic acid or pe-
troleum. Suspected water must be withheld or boiled.
Avoid all green food from an infested locality. The car-
casses of the dead must be burned. Young fowls may be
raised safely indoors on the worst infested farms.
CHAPTER V.
DISEASES OF THE HEART.
Frequency in different animals. General symptoms. Palpitation, thumps.
Displacement of the heart. Cyanosis. Enlargement, hypertrophy. Wast-
ing, atrophy. Dilatation. Pericarditis, inflammation of the heart-sac. En-
docarditis, inflammation of the lining membrane of the heart. Carditis, in-
fammation of the structure of the heart. Chronic disease of the valves.
Fatty degeneration of the heart. Tumors and parasites of the heart. Rupt-
are of the heart.
These are much more common in domestic animals than
is generally supposed. Though protected in animals from
the strain consequent on the upright position of man and
excessive mental efforts, the heart suffers from the severe
physical exertions of dogs and horses and in all animals
from its contiguity to diseased lungs and pleurze, from the
increased force necessary to propel the blood through the
lungs or general circulation when disease offers mechan-
ical obstructions, and above all from the settling of rheu-
matism on its valves and other fibrous textures. Dairy
cows suffer greatly from pins, needles and other sharp-
pointed bodies swallowed with the food and afterward di-
rected toward the heart by its movements. High-bred
oxen, sheep, pigs and even pampered horses are very sub-
ject to fatty degeneration of the muscular substance of the
heart and consequent dilatation of its cavities.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS OF HEART-DISEASE.
1. The pulse in full grown animals at rest may be set
lown as follows per minute :—horse 36 to 46; ox 38 to 42,
or in a hot building or with full paunch, 70; sheep, goat
Diseases of the Heart. 107
and pig 70 to 80; dog 80 to 100; cat 120 to 140; goose
110; pigeon 136; chicken 140. Im old age it may be five
less in large quadrupeds and twenty or thirty in small
ones. Youth and small size imply a greater rapidity:
The new-borr feal has a pulse three times as frequent as
the horse, the six-months colt double and the two-year
old one and a quarter. It is increased by hot, close build-
ings, exertion, fear, a nervous temperament and pregnancy.
In large quadrupeds there is a monthly increase of four to
five beats per minute after the sixth month. Independently
of such conditions a rapid pulse implies fever, inflamma-
tion or debility.1. The force of the pulse varies in the dif-
ferent species in health, thus it is full and moderately tense
in the horse; smaller and harder in the ass and mule;
full, soft and rolling in the ox; small and quick in sheep;
firm and hard in swine; and firm and with a sharp (quick)
beat in dogs and cats. Jn disease it may become more /re-
quent, slow, quick (with sharp impulse), tardy (with slow,
rolling movement), full, strong, weak, small (when thread-
like but quite distinct), hard (when with jarring sensation),
soft (when the opposite), oppressed (when the artery is full
and tense but the impulse jerking and difficult as if the
flow were obstructed), jerking and receding (when with
empty, flaccid vessel it seems to leap forward at each beat),
intermittent (when a beat is missed at regular intervals),
unequal (when some beats are strong and others weak), i-
regular (when without any distinct intermission for a pe-
riod equal to an entire beat the intervals between success-
ive beats vary in length). Beside these a peculiar thriil
is usually felt with each beat in very weak, bloodless
states.
1 The pulse may be felt wherever a considerable artery passes over a super-
ficial bone: thus on the cord felt running across the border of the lower jaw
just in front-of its curved portion: beneath the bony ridge which extends up-
ward from the eye: in horses inside the elbow: in cattle over the middle of
the first rib or beneath the tail: in dogs in a groove running down the inner
side of the thigh,
108 The Farmer’s Veterinary Adviser.
Of these the jerking, intermittent, unequal and irregular
pulses are especially indicative of heart-disease. The
jerking pulse is associated with disease of the valves at
the commencement of the great aorta which carries blood
from the left side of the heart, and is accompanied by a
hissing or sighing noise with the second heart sound.
The intermittent pulse implies functional derangement of
the heart but not necessarily disease of structure. The
unequal and irregular pulse is met in cases of fatty degen-
eration, disease of the valves on the left side, cardiac dila-
tation, ete. oe ae
Fig. 23—Helophilus.
INTESTINAL WORMS.
These are arranged in four classes: 1. The tape-worms,
consisting of flat bodies made up of a succession of seg-
ments or links, with a narrow neck and small head, and
divided into tape-worms proper, which are round-headed,
and bothriocephal, which are flat-headed with lateral
openings ; 2. the flukes, soft-bodied, flattened, leaf-like or
ovoid worms, with digestive organs and a variable num-
ber of sucking discs ; 3. the thorn-headed worms, with long
rounded bodies and retractile snouts furnished with
hooks by which they attach themselves to the mucous
membrane, but neither mouth nor digestive canal; 4.
lastly, the round worms which differ from the last in the
absence of a protractile, hooked snout and the pos-
session of mouth and digestive canal. The horse
harbors in his intestinal canal at least three tape-
worms and seven round worms; the ox, two tape-worms,
two flukes and five round worms; the sheep, one tape-
worm, one fluke and seven round worms; the pig, one
thorn-headed worm and five round worms; the dog, thir-
teen tape-worms, one fluke and five round worms; the cat,
five tape-worms, three flukes and three round worms; the
rabbit, one tape-worm and three round worms; the goose
and duck, nine tape-worms, seven flukes, one thorn-headed
worm and seven round worms; the chicken, four tape-
worms, two flukes and seven round worms; and the tur-
key and pigeon, at least two round worms each. Of these
Diseases of the Digestive Organs. LIS
eighty-eight worms of the digestive organs it is useless to
attempt any description in a work of the present limits, so
that our attention must be mainly confined to their symp-
toms and treatment. For further information the reader
is referred to the author’s larger work or to those of
Leuckhart, Diesing, Dujardin, Baillet, Cobbold and other
helminthologists.
The transformations of tapve-worms have been already
referred to under parasites, and those of flukes under dis-
Fig. 24. Fig. 25.
Fig. 24—Sclerostomum Equinum. Fig. 25—Oxyuris Curvula.
Mature and young forms, nat. size. 1 Female; 2 male, nat. size.
eases of the liver. The thorn-headed worms lay their eggs
within the body of their host, and these being passed with
the dung are swallowed by crustaceans in which they en-
cyst themselves and develop the characters of the adult
worm in miniature, but remain very minute and fail to at-
tain their full size till their host is swallowed by another
animal. Among domestic animals ducks and pigs harbor
these, probably because of their carnivorous appetite. The
round wormsmostly live in their young and immature con-
dition, out of the body, in water or moist earth or on veg-
176 The Farmer's Vetermmary Adviser.
etables (see lung-worms, verminous bronchitis,) but some are
exceptions, like the common pin-worm of the horse (Scler-
ostomum Equinum) which lives in pill-like masses of
dung, in little pouches and closed cysts of the mucous
Fig. 26. Fig. 27.
Fig. 27—Trichocephalus Affinis,
nat. size.
Fig. 26—Ascaris Megalacephala. Fig. 28—Head of Tzenia Expansa.
membrane of the large intestine and in dilatations of the
blood-vessels, especially the arteries of the bowels. This,
with two other common pin-worms of the horse (Scleros-
tomum Tetracanthum, Oxyuris Curvula,) are each about
Diseases of the Digestive Organs. 177
an inch in length and all inhabit the large intestine in their
adult condition, sometimes becoming so numerous in a
district as to cause an epizootic. Another round worm
(Ascaris Megalacephala) about six inches long is very com-
mon in the horse’s small intestine.
Cattle suffer less from intestinal worms, but the follow-
ing are not infrequently injurious, especially to calves.
The long tape-worm (Tznia Expansa), Ascaris Bovis (like
a common earth-worm), the hair-headed worm (Tricoceph-
Fig. 31. ;
Ffg. 29—Head of Echinorynchus
Gigas.
Fig. 30.
Fig. 30—Spiroptera Strongylina ; Fig. 31—Ascaris Suilla.
a, nat. size; 4, tail enlarged.
alus Affinis), the Sclerostomum Hypostomum and Stron-
gylus Radiatus.
Sheep suffer severely, especially from the long tape-
worm, Sclerostomum Hypostomum, Strongylus Fillicollis,
S. Contortus, Dochmius Cernuus and Tricocephalus Affinis.
The thick portion of the body of the last is about an inch
long, the other round worms are mostly under an inch and
a half. The tape-worm is usually three feet or under, but
is alleged to gain a length of twenty, thirty and even one
hundred feet.
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Swine suffer severely from a thorn-headed worm (Kchin-
orynchus Gigas) from three to eighteen inches long; a
hair-headed worm (Tricocephalus Crenatus) a_ little
smaller than the ruminant’s; an ascaris (A. Suilla) like
that of ruminants ; the Sclerostomum Dentatum, three to
five lines in length, and the Trichina Spiralis, one-eight-
eenth to one-sixth inch long.
Fig. 32. Fig. 34.
Fig. 32—Head of Dog’s Tape-worm (T. Cucumerina). Larval form in the
dog-louse (Trichodectes Cani). Fig. 33—Head of Dog’s Tape-worm (T.
Marginata). Fig. 34—Cyst of same (Cysticercus Tenuicollis) infests rumi-
nants, omnivora, etc. Fig. 35—Ascaris Marginata, nat. size. Fig. 36—
Ascaris Mystax, nat. size.
In addition to the tape-worms mentioned in the general
articles on parasites, the dog suffers much from others, as
from the following round worms: Ascaris Marginata, two
to four inches long; Spiroptera Sanguinolenta, one and
one-half to three inches long ;. Strongylus Trigonocepha-
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lus and Dochmius Trigonocephalus, each under one-half
inch ; and Tricocephalus Depressiusculus, the thick part
of which is about one-half inch. One worm of the cat,
Ascaris Mystax, one to three inches long, deserves men-
tion because of its being harbored also in the human intes-
tine.
General Symptoms of Intestinal Worms. These are
shown when worms are present in large numbers, when
they attach themselves to the mucous membranes or when
they bore through these to reach other parts. There are
general signs of ill-health, poor condition, pot-belly, hide-
bound, a scurfy, dry state of the skin, often with itching,
irregular and usually voracious appetite, foetid breath, di-
arrhocea alternating with costiveness, the passage of mu-
cus with the dung, slight, colicky pains with tympany, es-
pecially in the morning before feeding, a puffy swelling
and itchiness of the anus, which is often surrounded with
a fur of dried mucus, and above all, the passage of the worms
or their eggs. ,
In the horse there is often a tendency to elevate the up-
per lip and to rub it against wall or manger, to lick earth
or lime, or to shake the tail or rub out the hair about its root.
There may, though rarely, be severe flatulent or spasmodic
colic, enteritis or peritonitis.
In cattle there are advancing emaciation, depraved or va-
riable appetite, impaired rumination, colics, tympanies
and foetid breath.
Sheep lose appetite, scour, suffer from thirst, wasting, .
bloodless eyes, clapped, unhealthy or shedding wool, a
desire to eat earth, itching anus shown by frequent shak-
ing of the tail, and finally dropsical effusions in the chest
and belly and beneath the lower part of the body. They
become dull, hopeless-looking and leave the flock.
Swine beside the general symptoms have unusual vorac-
ity, and yet lose flesh, cough, scour, start from rest or
sleep with a sharp cry, scream excessively just before
feeding, have colicky pains, tender abdomen and vomiting,
180 The Farmer’s Veterinary Adviser.
and many even suffer from palpitations (thumps), vertigo
or convulsions.
Dogs suffer from inordinate appetite, wasting, itchy
skin, staring coat or loss of hair, indigestions, colics, oc-
casional scouring or vomiting, foetid breath, and itching
anus shown by their frequently licking it or drawing it
along the ground. Like swine they may show irritable
temper, starting without cause, palpitations, vertigo or
convulsions.
Treatment. This may be divided into the administration
of agents to kill the worms, of purgatives to carry off them
and their eggs, and of tonics to overcome the weakness and
the accumulations of mucus in which they live and thrive.
The diet for herbivora should be grain in summer, or in
winter sound natural hay salted, with carrots, turnips or
beets, and, in the horse at least, some of the more nutri-
tive grains (oats, barley, beans, corn, linseed cake, etc.,)
eround or unground. Pigs may also have green food,
roots, a liberal supply of grain, and if available, buttermilk.
Dogs may have salt meat with soups and milk.
Before giving a vermifuge let the bowels be cleared out
by a purgative (horse, aloes; ox or sheep, Glauber salts ;
swine, dog or chicken, castor-oil). It should also be
given fasting before the morning’s feed and, if the worms
exist in the large intestines, by injection as well as by the
mouth.
A great list of vermifuges may be mentioned, some de-
structive to intestinal worms in general; others particu-
larly adapted to specific parasites; while some that are
safe and efficacious for one class of patients would prove
poisonous to another.
One class destroys worms by the mechanical irritation of
their skin and perhaps their intestinal canal. It includes
iron filings, granulated tin or tin filings, very finely pow-
dered glass, and cowhage. These are given in doses of
4 oz. to the large quadrupeds, 1 dr. to sheep and swine;
or 1 scr. to dogs, made into a ball_ with: linseeed. meal
Diseases of the Digestive Organs. 181
and syrup. They may be repeated daily for a week and
followed by a smart purge.
Bitters (quassia, cinchona, gentian, wormwood,) are
often beneficial though mainly acting as tonics. For
worms in the last gut a concentrated solution as an in-
jection acts well.
Among the more direct vermifuges are: Common salt
allowed to be licked at will (must not be mixed in large
amount in the food of swine or chickens) ; oil of turpen-
tine ; calomel; tartar emetic with sulphate of iron, for six
mornings running, and followed by a purge; empyreu-
matic oils, and especially those coming off at a slightly
lower temperature than creosote and carbolic acid; azed-
arach; Spigelia marilandica (pinkroot) ; -santonine; sul-
phuric ether; asafcetida; tansy; savin, etc. These are
general vermifuges and may be used especially for the
round worms.
For tape-worms use areca nut; kousso; root of male
shield-fern ; pomegranate root bark; kameela; pumpkin
seeds; ailanthus glandulosa; or oil of turpentine. In
every case the agent should be given fasting, it may even
be repeated at the end of four hours and should be
followed by a smart purge. For weak animals areca nut
is especially suitable.
A course of tonics (sulphate of iron, gentian, columba,)
should follow with sound nourishing diet and pure water.
In the case of the Sclerostomum Equinum, it will usually
be needful to repeat the treatment at short intervals to
lull the young worms which have escaped because of their
being buried in the mucous membrane.
Prevention is to be sought by measures advised under
lung-worms, especial attention being given to sound nour-
ishing food and pure water.
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CHAPTER VIIL.
DISEASES OF THE LIVER.
Effects of deranged functions of the liver. General symptoms and causes,
Saccharine urine, Diabetes Mellitus. Blood-poisoning from imperfect oxida-
tion of albuminoids, Azotzmia, Azoturia, Enzootic Hzematuria, Spinal
Meningitis. Red-water in cattle, sheep and pigs. Wood Evil. Jaundice,
Icterus, the Yellows. Congestion of the liver. Rupture of the liver. In-
fammation of the liver, Hepatitis. Chronic inflammation of the liver.
Results of hepatitis. Gall-Stones, Biliary Calculi. Fatty degeneration.
Tubercle. Cancer. Hypertrophy. Atrophy. Parasitic diseases of the
liver. Liver-rot, Fluke-disease. Fasciola Hepatica. Distomum Lanceo-
latum.
Only now, when the functions of the liver are being
more fully discovered, do we begin to apprehend the full
importance of its various disorders. Formerly this organ
was supposed to have exhausted its functions in the secre-
tion of bile, and the various modifications and impaired
discharge of this product together with inflammation,
morbid growths and degenerations circumscribed the list
of hepatic diseases. But the recognition of the formation
of glycogen and cholesterine in the liver, together with urea
and other less perfectly oxidized nitrogenous bodies which
pass into the blood in place of being discharged with the
bile, points to the liver as the chief local seat of various
disorders such as diabetes, cholesterine plugging of ves-
sels, blood-poisoning from imperfectly oxidized albumi-
noids, and urinary calculi.
General Symptoms. These may be stated shortly as
follows: obesity, sluggishness, irregular bowels, the dung
being abundant, liquid and deep yellow or orange from
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Diseases of the Inver. - ee 183
excess of bile in active congestions of the liver, or on the
contrary there may be costiveness, with light-colored,
foetid, imperfectly digested stools in cases in which bile is
not secreted or is debarred from entering the bowels by
some mechanical obstruction ; lameness in the right fore
limb, or even in one or more of the remaining members,
without any observable local cause; cramps and even
paralysis in the severer cases with poisonous products
thrown into the blood ; a tardy pulse sometimes not more
than half its natural number; yellow or orange color of
the eyes and other visible mucous membranes, and of the
urine in cases of obstructed bile-ducts or intestines with
reabsorption of bile, or in destruction of blood-cells by
taurocholic acid and other products abnormally present in
the blood ; tenderness or groaning when the last ribs are
pinched or struck with the closed fist ; a yellow or orange
fur may sometimes be seen oeivatsall- diffused or in cir-
cumscribed spots on the upper surface of the tongue ; the
presence in the urine of deep brown or reddish granular
deposits replacing urea is another sign of liver disorder.
Obstructed circulation in the liver causes congestion of the
portal vein, engorged spleen, intestinal catarrh, effusion of
blood on the bowels, piles, dropsy of the abdomen, and
swelling of the hind hmbs. These may therefore be at-
tendant symptoms.
The conditions in which animals live may further assist
our decision in suggesting an efficient cause. The fat, idle,
overfed and pampered stock are especially subject to liver
disease, and more particularly if kept in close, hot, damp
buildings or climates, or supplied with putrid water or
unwholesome food. Thus the pampered family horse, the
idle farm horse during our long winters, the high-bred ox,
sheep, and pig in which everything has been sacrificed to
secure excellence as meat producers, the pet dog, and the
Brahmas, Cochins and other plump hens of Asiatic ex-
traction, present frequent examples of liver disease. The
stabled animal is more subject to it than those running at
184 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser.
pasture, and the subject liberally fed on dry fodder than
that nourished on succulent green food. Then the deni-
zen of the warm latitude and damp miasmatic soil is more
liable than others.
SACCHARINE URINE, DIABETES MELLITUS.
Very rare in the lower animals but has been seen in
carnivora (dogs), omnivora (monkeys), cattle and even in
the horse. Temporary sweetness of the urine is not dis-
ease, but if permanent it may be referred to excessive
production of glycogen in the liver which is probably
always enlarged (Bernard) ; or less frequently to the fail-
ure of the liver to transform the sugar of the food into
glycogen ; or it may be from disease of the medulla oblon-
gata (apoplexy) or of some part which exerts an irritant
reflex action on the base of the brain. It has been pro-
duced experimentally by giving alcohol, ether, chloroform,
quinia, ammonia, arsenic, phosphoric acid, and woorali.
Symptoms. Rapid loss of condition, scurfy, unthrifty
skin, costive bowels, indigestion, ardent thirst, and exces-
sive secretion of urime of a high specific gravity—horse
and ox, 1060; pig, goat and sheep, 1030 and upward.
The tests for sugar are: 1. taste; 2. fermentation when
yeast is added and the whole allowed to stand in a warm
temperature ; 3. the addition to a little of the urme in
a test-tube of a few drops of solution of blue vitriol, and
a considerable excess of potassa, and boiling the liquid for
a moment when if sugar is present there is a deposit of the
yellowish-brown suboxide of copper.
Treatment. Rarely successful. The best results are to
be expected in cases in which an active cause, such as dis-
ease of the liver, lungs or brain, can be recognized and
kept in check or cured. Thus with liver disease, laxatives,
alkalies, pure air and water, green or otherwise laxative
food, and cupping, mild blistering or even leeching over
the spare-ribs, may be beneficial. In lung disease the
treatment must correspond to its nature, whether inflam-
Diseases of the Lier. 185
~ matory, tuberculous or otherwise. Tonics and stomachics
are almost always demanded. All the bitters, tincture of
iron, the mineral acids and carbonate of soda have been
used with profit. Opium, which checks the excretion of
sugar, is injurious by impairing digestion. Lactic acid has
repeatedly succeeded at the expense of a severe attack of
rheumatism. Free secretion from the skin is beneficial
and should be encouraged by warm clothing, baths and
climate. Diet should be mainly albuminous, such as bran
mashes and gruels, peas, beans, vetches, flesh deprived of
fat, ete.
BLOOD-POISONING FROM IMPERFECT OXIDATION OF ALBUMINOIDS.
AZOT@MIA. AZOTURIA. ENZOOTIC HH MATURIA. SPINAL
MENINGITIS.
Variously described in the books as disease of the kid-
neys and spinal cord, this is really due to disease of the
liver which fails to effect the transformation of albumi-
noids into urea, and entails an accumulation in the gland
and in the circulating fluid of partially oxidized products,
such as leucin and tyrosin, which pass off in variable
amount by the kidneys. It attacks almost exclusively
horses which have stood idle in the stable for a few days,
on good diet, and are then taken out and subjected to ac-
tive exertion.
Symptoms, ete. These are very variable. In the mild-
est forms there is only some lameness and muscular trem-
bling in a particular limb, without apparent cause, brought
on by sudden exertion and attended by a dusky-brown
color of the membranes of the eye and nose and some
signs of tenderness when the short ribs are struck. This
may be entirely cured by a course of gentle laxatives (pod-
ophyllin, 1 ser.) and diuretics (colchicum, muriate of am-
monia, taraxacum, nitre,) and a gradual inuring to work,
beginning with the slightest exertion and increasing day
by day as the condition improves. The worst forms come
‘on during or after driving, it may be not more than one
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186 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser.
hundred yards, the fire and life suddenly giving place to
anxiety and despondency, the subject seems to be in vio-
lent pain, the flanks heave, the nostrils are dilated, the
face is pinched, the surface is drenched in perspiration,
the body trembling violently, the limbs weak, so that they -
sway and bend, while the animal walks crouchingly behind
and soon goes down unable to support himself. If urine
is passed it is high-colored, dark brown, red or black, and
is usually thought bloody, but it contains neither clots nor
blood-corpuscles, its color being due to the imperfectly
oxidized albuminoids mixed with an excess of urea. When
the patient is down the limbs and whole body are still
convulsed at intervals, but are beyond the control of the ©
animal, showing the poisonous effect on the nervous sys-
tem. The pulse is variable but high and the temperature
of the body normal at first, though it rises slightly if the
animal survives. Death may ensue ina few hours or days,
or improvement manifested at any period may go on to
complete recovery. The blood is dark, difiluent, clots
loosely if at all, and smells strongly. In some cases of re-
covery a partial paralysis of the hind limbs or wasting of
the crural nerve and muscles above the stifle will some-
times persist for a time, showing structural nervous disease.
Prevention is to be sought by regular daily exercise. In
the case of horses which have had a period of absolute
repose, submit to walking exercise only, at first, and in-
crease this day by day until they have attained good, hard
condition.
Treatment. Clear out bbe bowels and unload the por-
tal vein and liver by active purgatives. Podophyllin 4
drachm, aloes 4 drachms, may be given by the mouth, and
copious injections of soap-suds with oil or salts by the
anus until the bowels respond, in which case a favorable
termination may be hoped for. Drachm doses of bromide
of potassium may be given frequently to calm nervous dis-
order, and when the bowels have responded half drachm
doses of colchicum and drachm doses of muriate of
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Diseases of the Laver. 187
ammonia three times a day. Warm fomentations to
the body, but especially to the loins, are beneficial, alike
in soothing irritation in the liver, spinal marrow and kid-
neys, and in securing a free perspiration and the elimina-
tion of morbid matters by the skin. They may be replaced
by a newly removed sheep-skin applied with the fleshy
side in, and followed by a mustard poultice. When the
appetite returns the diet must be of sloppy mashes and
moderate in quantity.
In case the paralysis persists after the acute symptoms
have subsided, treat as for functional paralysis.
WOOD EVIL. RED WATER OF CATTLE, SHEEP AND PIGS.
Under this name we designate a malady generally de-
seribed as bloody urine (hematuria), but as the liquid does
not usually contain blood globules or clots, and as the
liver is almost invariably enlarged and softened and the
blood elements are largely destroyed, 1t must be conceded
that the affection is more intimately associated with disor-
der of the hepatic functions than of any other. The cause,
which may be stated as feeding on irritant and unwhole-
some food, is such as is calculated to disorder the digest-
ive organs and liver. The blood seems to suffer second-
arily, though it is by no means disproved that other blood-
forming functions beside those of the liver are involved.
The blood itself is usually thin, watery and comparatively
incoagulable, with a deficiency of fibrine, albumen and red
globules—the last named elements being smaller than nat-
ural and irregularly notched around their margins. The
‘urine varies in color from a simple reddish tinge through
the various shades of red and brown to black. It contains
albumen and various albuminoid agents, excess of urea,
cholesterine and phosphates, implying hepatic disturbance
and destructive changes taking place in the blood.
This is essentially a disease of unimproved localities
and attacks animals fed too exclusively on products of
such land, which are naturally stimulating to the digest-
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ive organs and liver. Turnips and other saccharine roots,
though perfectly safe from ordinary soils, are dangerous
from these, and in the natural meadows and woods the
young shoots of resinous trees (conifer) and the acrid
plants of the ranunculus, colchicum and asclepias families,
etc., are held to produce it. Its prevalence in woods and
uncultivated meadows has procured for it in almost all
European countries some name equivalent to wood disease.
An important element in the causation is the existence of
soil rich in organic matter and soured by the stagnation
of water owing to a clay or otherwise impervious subsoil.
Cows are very susceptible just after calving and often per-
ish.
Symptoms. Dullness, languor, weakness, especially of
the hind limbs, trembling, surface coldness, staring coat,
dry muzzle, hot mouth and horns and diminution of the
milk which is white and frothy and may throw down a red-
dish sediment. Appetiteis lost, thirst ardent, pulse small
and weak, beats of the heart tumultuous, amounting to palpi-
tation in the parturient cases, bowels at first relaxed after-
ward costive, abdomen tender, urine passed frequently in
small quantity and often with suffermg. Colicky pains
are often a marked symptom when the irritation of the
bowels is extreme. Delirium even will set in in bad cases
and death usually supervenes on a state of extreme pros-
tration.
Prevention may be sought in thorough drainage; in
restricting the allowance of objectionable food and supple-
menting it with sound dry grain and fodder; in the avoid-
ance of damp, woody and natural meadows in spring until
there is a good growth of grass, and in the rejection of hay
from faulty pastures containing an excess of acrid plants.
Treatment. At the onset of the disease nothing succeeds
better than a free evacuation of the bowels and depletion
of the portal vein and liver by an active purgative. When
there is no abdominal pain or other sign of inflammation
of the bowels, salts or any other active purgative will suf-
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fice, but with colic and tenderness of the abdomen, we
must restrict our choice to olive-oil, and other bland ma-
terials. In advanced and weak conditions, decoctions of
linseed should be resorted to. The animal is to be sup-
ported by diffusible stimulants and iron tonies, with chlo-
rate of potassa, and the bowels sheathed and protected by
infusions of slippery elm, or mallow, decoctions of linseed,
egos, milk or mucilage ; diet should consist of linseed decoc-
tions, well-boiled gruels, bran mashes, and other nutritive
and easily digested food.
JAUNDICE. ICTERUS. THE YELLOWS.
This name is given to that condition in which the visi-
ble mucous membranes, the skin—if white—the urine and
the tissues are stained yellow, orange or brown by bile
coloring matter. It is only a symptom of various disor-
ders, but is so specific in its characters that the name bids
fair to be retained for the state. It is not caused as once
supposed by the non-secretion of bile from the blood, but
by the re-absorption of bile already secreted.
This absorption may be determined by various cases.
1. Obstruction of the bile duct, by gall-stones, parasites,
foreign bodies entering from the gut, fibrous or spasmodic
stricture of the duct, inflammation or ulceration and swell-
ing of the mucous membrane of the canal, or the intestine
near the opening, tumors or overloaded intestines. 2.
Obstruction of the bowels which hinders the discharge
of the bile. 3. Diminished fullness of the capillary ves-
sels of the liver from partial mechanical obstruction of
hepatic artery or aorta. 4. Excessive secretion of bile in
congested states of the liver.
Jaundice may also result from imperfect metamorpho-
sis of the re-absorbed bile, as in certain fevers (anthrax,
_ Texan-fever, hog-cholera, purpura hemorrhagica,) in
_ blood-poisoning, (septic matter, snake venom, phospho-
rus, mercury, copper, antimony, chloroform, ether, car-
bonic acid). It may farther result from the breaking down
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of red blood-globules and liberation of their coloring mat-
ter to stain the blood and textures. This may be caused
by excess in the blood of water, bile acids (taurocholates)
alkalies, nitrites, ether or chloroform. It may result from
freezing, burning, (140° F.) and frictional and induction
currents of electricity. Itis noticeable that the coloring
matter in the blood of solipeds is very easily dissolved
and that of carnivora only with difficulty. Hence the
frequency of a dusky or jaundiced appearance of the mem-
branes in horses and its comparative harmlessness, as
contrasted with similar conditions in the dog. It is further
probable that the re-absorbed bile acids are transformed
into bile pigment in certain states of the blood.
Symptoms. General coloration of all the tissues, but
especially the mucous membranes of a yellow, or over
large veins of a greenish hue, and also of the urine. When
there is obstruction of the bile duct, the dung is devoid
of bile, foetid and often clayey in appearance, but if from
other causes it may retain its natural color and odor.
Other symptoms may appear dependent on the nature
of the attendant disease, or the poisonous action of the
bile acids, and of various diseased products on the blood,
while the coloration itself seems to be comparatively harm-
less. .
Treatment. ‘This will depend on the nature of the cause. _
As a general rule what favors the action of the bowels, —
the free elimination of the bile, and depletion of the portal —
vein and liver will counteract the jaundice. Small daily —
doses of podophyllin, (horse and ox 1 scr.) with one or —
more ounces each of Glauber, Epsom, and common salt, —
as may be needful, will often act very efficiently. Oraloes, —
jalap or calomel, may replace the podophyllin. Taraxa-
cum may be given either in diuretic or purgative doses, or ~
a herbivorous patient may be turned out on a pasturage
of dandelion; succulent spring grass indeed is sometimes
all that is needed. Diuretics are useful in effecting elim- —
ination of the pigment, the carbonates and acetates of po- —
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tassa, soda and ammonia being especially good. Bitter
and other tonics are often valuable in conteracting that im-
pairment of tone which favors congestion and swelling of
the stomach, intestine and liver, otherwise the treatment
must correspond to the nature of the cause when that can
be ascertained.
CONGESTION OF THE LIVER.
This is common in horses in warm climates, where
luxuriant grasses (plethora) and hot seasons strongly pre-
dispose. Hence, in the Southern States, and especially in
localities which are moist as well, and where malarious
emanations exist, it may be looked for, but it is also seen
in pampered idle animals kept in hot close stables any-
where. Rich food and the comparative absence of waste by
exercise and breathing throw too much labor on the liver,
which is rendered lable to clogging and congestion. Among
the immediate exciting causes may be named sudden
changes of temperature, emigration from a cold toa warm
damp region, chills in cold dewy nights after hot days,
sudden exertion when unfitted for it by long rest and bad
condition, exertion under intense heat of the sun, and blows
on the region of the liver, particularly on the young.
Venous congestion from imperfect action of the heart
valves is a cause of hepatic congestion, at once predispos-
ing and exciting.
Symptoms. ‘These strongly resemble the severe forms
of poisoning, by imperfectly elaborated liver products, the
two conditions being often coexistent and mutually de-
pendent on each other. There are the sudden prostration,
dull sunken eyes, pinched anxious face, excited breathing
and pulse, trembling, swaying limbs, perspiration, sighing,
and violent colicky pains with frequent looking at the flank,
_ lying down and rising. Striking the last ribs with the fist
causes flinching, groaning, or even attempts to kick or
bite, and some jaundice and furring of the tongue are often
seen. When fainting ensues, this with the pallid mucous
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membranes and quick, weak pulse, imply rupture of the
liver and extensive loss of blood. In the slighter attacks
the symptoms are correspondingly mitigated.
The attack may subside and end in complete recovery,
or blood effused into the substance of the liver may be
slowly absorbed, or organized into fibrous material, or
may determine extensive and fatal softening of the liver,
or finally the patient may perish in a fainting fit from rupt-
ure of the liver and loss of blood.
Treatment. At the outset a free bleeding will often ob-
viate effusion of blood and rupture and check the disease.
It must never be resorted to, however, when faintness, a
weak, small pulse or a small stream from the orifice 1m-
plies already existing effusion. Quiet, mustard poultices
or other derivatives applied to the limbs and saline pur-
gatives (1 lb. sulphate of soda) by the mouth, and as in-
jections will prove valuable in directly depleting the
portal system and liver. Cold water or ice to the last ribs
will often serve to check effusion already begun. The
sulphate of soda may be kept up in small doses (1 to 4
ozs. daily) and a mustard or other blister may be applied
over the region of the liver. During treatment the animal
must have the purest air and, as food, soft bran mashes.
and roots. After recovery feed moderately on sound, eas-
ily digested food, keep in pasture or airy stable and never
neglect moderate exercise even for a day.
INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER. HEPATITIS.
Due to the same causes as congestion but much less fre-
quent. In dogs, beside the general causes we must ac-
knowledge the influence of sharp-pointed bodies swallowed
in wantonness, and splinters of bones which perforate the
stomach and liver.
Symptoms. At first those of slow congestion already
referred to. As active inflammation sets in there is less
violent pain and excitement and more fever. The pulse
is accelerated, the breathing quickened, especially in in- —
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flammation of the liver capsule, the region of the last ribs
is very tender to a blow (on the right side only in ruwmi-
nants), the mouth hot and clammy, tongue furred, mucous
membranes more or less dusky or yellow and the heat of
the body raised by 2° or upwards. The bowels may be
at first loose, yellow and bilious but soon are confined,
the small pellets of dung being covered with a yellowish
mucus and this state may again give place to a mucous
diarrhea. Appetite is usually completely lost, emaciation
advances rapidly, blood spots and patches appear on the
visible mucous membranes, and the legs, especially the
hind ones, swell or stock. Great nervous atony, convul-
sions or even delirium may appear toward the last.
In dogs there is great dullness and muscular weakness,
inclination to lie constantly, unsteady gait, dusky or yel-
low membranes, furred tongue, prominence of the last ribs
on the right side and tenderness along them and their
_ cartilages. When the disease is fully developed the tumid
edge of the liver may be felt behind the last rib and the
costal cartilages. A brownish, mucous diarrhoea succeeds
to the preliminary constipation. Great nervous prostra-
tion and stupor usually precede death. The disease is
very fatal i dogs but may merge into the chronic form
with ascites or end in a perfect recovery.
Fowls, especially the less lively birds, suffer much from
hepatitis when well fed and kept in a small poultry-yard.
They may die suddenly of effusion of blood on the liver
without any previous signs of illness, or they may droop
for some days or even weeks prior to death. Any change
in the habits of closely confined, plethoric fowls should
lead to suspicion of liver disease. Ruffled feathers, sink-
ing of the head between the wings, sluggishness in run-
ning or feeding, drooping in a corner alone, with a with-
ered brownish appearance of the comb and jaundice of
the skin are especially to be noted.
Treatment. Bleeding is rarely beneficial and we must
rely mainly on depletion from the portal system and liver
1;
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by purgatives, or counter-irritants and change of habits.
A pound of sulphate of soda may be given at once to the
larger animals, or an ounce to a shepherd’s dog and an
equivalent amount by injection. Podophyllin, aloes, etc.,
may be used instead. Friction, with loose bandaging of
the limbs, with or without excitation with mustard or am-
monia and cupping, or in small animals leeching over the
region of the liver or mustard poultices are demanded.
After the bowels have been freely opened smaller doses of
Glauber salts or cream of tartar may be given daily to
keep up a free action of the bowels, and throughout the
diet must be soft (mashes, roots, green food,) and restricted
in quantity. Taraxacum with bitter tonics (Peruvian
bark, gentian, columba, gelsemium, etc.,) will be useful
during convalescence, and when the herbivorous patient is
well enough to be pastured in a field well stocked with
dandelion this may be resorted to. In carnivora and
swine ipegacuanha and guaiacum are useful in favoring free
elimination by the bowels and skin.
Fouls attacked usually die, but the morbid state in which
the disease takes its origin may be counteracted in the re-
maining fowls by a free range, by cabbage, cooked pota-
toes, turnips and other vegetable food in place of grain,
and a small quantity of salt and Glauber salts in the food
or water. Excess of common salt is poisonous.
CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER.
This is seen especially in horses and dogs, the liver often
attaining an enormous size or undergoing fibrous degen-
eration (cirrhosis). It is attended by the same symptoms
as the acute form, but these are less urgent and dropsy of
the belly and legs is a common result.
It is to be treated in the same manner as the acute form
but less energetically, mild laxatives with bitters daily and
above all a free range in the open air; for herbivora,
sound, juicy pastures and in case of malarious soil or im-
pure water, a change even for a few miles to a higher lo-
cality.
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RESULTS OF INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER.
_ Beside recovery there may be effusion of blood with soft-
ening, granular softening, abscess and fibrous induration.
These if not promptly fatal give rise to wasting diseases
with general symptoms of liver disorder, but into these
our space will not permit us to enter. (See the author's
large work.)
GALL-STONES. BILIARY CALCULI.
These are especially common in oxen when subject to
the dry feeding of winter but are found in all domestic
animals, often in great numbers. They occur as round
masses, angular masses when they have lain in contact, or °
as Iincrustations on the walls of the ducts of which they
form distinct casts. They often fail to cause manifest
disorder, but if they obstruct the ducts there is acute spas-
modic pain in the abdomen, with all the signs of colic,
tenderness over the last ribs, and more or less jaundice.
The attacks are liable to recur as new calculi are displaced,
and the general health suffers. Carnivora vomit, and in
all diarrhoea may set in if relief is not obtained. Sheep
generally have incrustations when affected with flukes
(liver rot).
The formation of these calculi may usually be prevented
in herbivora by allowing a fair amount of exercise and
succulent food, and they nearly always disappear in cattle
turned out on therich grasses of spring. Beside these meas-
ures their removal may be sought by the daily use of carbon-
ate and sulphate of soda and common salt, with abundance
of good water and exercise. During the attacks give anti-
spasmodics, lobelia, belladonna, hyoscyamus, chloral-hy-
drate, etc., and keep up hot fomentations perseveringly to
the loms and abdomen. Chloral-hydrate and chloroform
dissolve cholesterine calculi.
OTHER AFFECTIONS OF THE LIVER, fatty degeneration, tuber-
cle, cancer, hypertrophy, atrophy, are manifested by the
general symptoms of hepatic disorders, but space forbids
further notice of them here.
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PARASITIC DISEASES OF THE LIVER.
LIVER-ROT. FLUKE DISEASE.
This affection is most destructive to sheep, of which it
has destroyed as many as from one to two million head
in England alone in certain years. It is immediately
determined by the presence in the gall ducts of two flat
leaf-like parasites—the Fasciola Hepatica and the Disto-
mum Lanceolatum—the first ? to 1 inch in length, the
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second 4 lines. These inhabit the gall ducts of all the
domestic animals, of many wild animals and even of man,
but in most of these they do little harm. The eggs of
these parasites laid in the gall ducts cannot be developed
there, but pass out with the bile and dung, hatch in pools
of fresh water in which the embryo floats until it finds
a mollusk, in which it encysts itself and becomes a brood
capsule developing many new embryos within it; these
embryos may form new brood capsules and thus increase
their numbers materially, or if swallowed by a mammal
along with its food or water they develop into the mature
ITO SSO
Diseases of the Liver. 197
flukes, inhabiting the bile ducts and reproducing them-
selves only by eggs. ‘The necessity for these intermediate
generations, and the fact that they can only take place in
fresh water and in fresh water mollusks, points to thorough
drainage as the most efficient means of limiting the ravages
of the parasites.
In small numbers they do little harm and as they can-
not multiply within the body their presence may be of no
consequence, but when present in large numbers they be-
come most destructive. In certain damp lands stocked
with these parasites sheep cannot live, no matter how
well fed, and cattle often perish as well. A single in-
fested sheep brought on such damp lands will speedily
stock them, as infested German rams did the colony of
Victoria in 1855.
Symptoms. Sheep may thrive unusually for a month or
two, but soon they begin to lose flesh and waste with
a rapidity thatis surprising. The skin and the membranes
of the nose and eyes become soft and puffy, the naturally
bright pink vessels of the eye become yellowish, dark, or
even quite imperceptible, the whole eye assumes a yellow
tinge, the skin is pale, bloodless, deficient in yolk or oil,
dry and scurfy. The wool loses its briluancy and comes
out easily when pulled. The muscles waste, the animal
is razor-backed, the hip-bones project, and the flank becomes
sunken, the belly pendent and the back drooped from
dropsical effusion. Similar effusions take place in the
chest beneath the abdomen and breast-bone and under
the lower jaw. The head is no longer carried erect, the
expression of the face is haggard and hopeless, the appe-
tite capricious, thirst ardent, and there is occasional
diarrhoea. Examination of the dung detects myriads of
microscopic eggs ;4, inch in diameter.
Treatment. Almost all the tonics of the pharmacopceia
have been employed with more or less effect, but all usu-
ally fail when many parasites have gained access to the
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system. The following is a good example of a tonic mixt-
ure:
Linseed, rape, pea, oat, barley, or unbolted wheat
flour, 40 lbs.
Powdered gentian or anise seed, Ab ne
Common salt, :
Sulphate or oxide of iron, te
Give half a pint daily to each sheep.
In all treatment it is essential to remove from the in-
fested meadow to a perfectly dry pasture or salt marsh on
either of which the eggs of the fluke will perish. To turn
on a wet fresh pasture is merely to stock that with the
parasites.
Prevention. Keep sheep on high dry pastures or salt
marshes where the fluke cannot live out of the body.
Feed salt daily if flukes exist to however limited an extent ;
this is fatal to the young flukes and will destroy most of
them as they are takenin. Thorough drainage of infested
pastures will make them wholesome. This may fail when
land is subject to inundations, and in this case such land
should be devoted to raising hay or other crops. Keeping
the sheep off the infested fields at nights and until the
dews leave the grass in the morning will go a long way
towards protecting them. In some instances of the intro-
duction of this parasite into a new country the contami-
nated sheep should be destroyed and the infested pasture
with a wide area around it proscribed from being grazed.
For other parasites of the liver, see general article on
“¢ PARASITES.”
CHAPTER IX. !
DISEASES OF THE PANCREAS AND SPLEEN.
Diseases of the pancreas: inflammation, degeneration, calculi, etc. Dis-
eases of the spleen: tuberculous, cancerous, glanderous, inflammatory, con-
gestive, apoplectic. Hypertrophy, Atrophy, Lymphadenoma, Leukemia.
DISEASES OF THE PANCREAS.
_ Though subject to a variety of diseases as shown by the
existence of abscess, tuberculosis, sarcoma,melanosis, can-
cer, calculi and worms (Sclerostomum Equinum) after
death, this organ is so deeply seated and the result of its
disorder so little manifest, that its pathological states usu-
ally pass without recognition during life. One symptom
only is characteristic—the passage of much undigested fat
with the dung. The fatty aliment is mainly emulsionized
by the pancreatic juice, and its presence in the stools un-
changed may be held to imply suppression of that secre-
tion. If this condition coincides with general fever, col-
icky pains, and tenderness behind the last rib on the right
side, inflammation of the gland may be suspected ; if with
sharper colic but without fever, obstruction of the pancreatic
duet by calculi will be suggested.
Inflammation should be treated on general principles by
laxatives, blisters to the right side of the abdomen and
spare diet; Calcul by antispasmodics and fomentations
as for gall-stones ; and simple suppressed secretion by sul-
phuric ether. .
DISEASES OF THE SPLEEN (MILT).
These are if possible even more occult than those of the
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pancreas. And yet this organ is involved in nearly all
diseases of the liver, in specific fevers due to a poison in
the blood, and in disorders of the lymphatic vessels. Ob-
structed circulation through the liver sends the blood
back on this organ and over-distends it almost to rupture.
Advanced tuberculosis and cancer rarely fail to show
secondary deposits here. Glanders sometimes shows the
same tendency. Anthrax and anthracoid affections and,
to a less extent, other specific fevers, lead to enlargement
and even rupture of the spleen, in connection with the
long retention of the blood and disease poisons in its ve-
nous cavities. Of particular diseases the spleen suffers
from wasting in starved animals, from extraordinary in-
crease in the highly fed, and from changes of structure
such as glandular degeneration and enlargement (lymphade-
noma). Some of these diseases, and notably the latter,
are associated with an excess of white globules in the
blood, (leukcemia) which condition revealed by the micro-
scope may assist in diagnosis.
We can do little for these affections besides giving at-
tention to the oat health, by tonics and a sound hy-
giene.
CHAPTER X.
DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS.
General causes and symptoms. Examination of the urine. Diuresis, Di-
abetis Insipidus, Polyuria. Bloody urine, Hzematuria. Simple inflamma-
tion of the kidneys, Nephritis. Bright’s disease, Desquamative Nephritis.
Albuminuria, Albuminous urine. Spasm of the neck of the bladder. Paraly-
sis of the bladder. Inflammation of the bladder, Cystitis. Inflammation
of the Urethra, Gonorrhcea, Gleet._ Stricture of the Urethra. Eversion of
the bladder. Urinary Calculi, and gravel, Stone in the kidney, ureter, blad-
der, urethra and prepuce,—in horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs.
Diseases of the urinary organs are not infrequent in the
domestic animals, though less prevalent than in man.
They prevail above all in certain localities, as: on the
magnesian limestones, in company with goitre, on lands
abounding in diuretic or resinous plants or water, in damp
regions where fodder is secured in a wet, musty condition,
where it is fed covered with hoar-frost, or where frequent
cold rains and winds repress the perspiration and throw
undue work on the kidneys. Feeding to excess on ali-
ments rich in phosphates of lime and magnesia—bran,
beans, peas, vetches, etc..—the habitual privation of wa-
ter, injudicious dosing with diuretics, diseased heart and
Jungs which: throws the blood back on the veins and de-
termines passive congestion of the kidneys, diseases of the
liver which interfering with the oxidation of albuminoids
predispose to urinary deposit, and finally mechanical in-
juries to the loins or pelvis all tend to induce various
urinary diseases.
General Symptoms. With most acute inflammations
there is a stiff straddling gait with the hind limbs, the
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loins are tender, as ascertained by pinching on the spines
or the transverse processes of the backbone, there is less
difficulty experienced in backing than when there is sprain
or fracture of the back or loins, and the animal is more
likely to lie down though it costs an extra effort to rise,
there is straining to discharge urine, which is passed in
excess, in deficiency, in jets, in dribblets only, or not at all.
In the larger animals the bladder and its excretory duct
(urethra) are easily and satisfactorily examined by the
hand introduced through the rectum or vagina and any
tenderness, flaccidity, swelling, over-distension or foreign
agent (stone) is easily made out. In the smaller breeds
of horses and cattle even, the kidneys may be reached in
this way and any heat, swelling, tenderness, etc., perceived.
Then brain disease, dropsies and skin eruptions are com-
mon results of urinary disorder.
Examination of the Urine. But a certain class of urin-
ary diseases are only to be made out by examination of
the urine. Beside the modifications of quantity and flow
already referred to, this may be altered : 1st, an color, as
white from saline deposits, brown or red from blood clots
and coloring matter, or from imperfectly oxidized, albu-
minoids, yellow or orange from bile or blood pigment, pale
or variously tinted from vegetable colors taken with the
food: 2d, in density as measured by a hygrometer (urin-
ometer), the natural urine being in the horse and ox 1030
to 1060, pig and goat 1010 to 1012, dog 1020 and cat 1058 :
3d, in chemical reaction, acidity or alkalinity, as ascertained
by blue litmus or red test-papers (healthy herbivorous
urine is alkaline, turning the red papers blue unless after
prolonged abstinence or a flesh diet ; carnivorous and om-
nivorous urine is acid excepting when confined to a vege-
table diet) : 4th, in organic ingredients, as when it contains
albumen (coagulable by boiling or by strong nitric acid or
in the horse giving the liquid a ropy consistency), sugar,
blood, bile, cylindroid microscopic casts of the uriniferous
tubes or the eggs or bodies of worms: 5th, in tts salts,
Diseases of the Urinary Organs. 203
which may crystallize out in the system or at once after
the liquid is discharged, or after cooling, or finally may
have to be precipitated by chemical reagents.
DIURESIS. DIABETES INSIPIDUS. POLYURIA.
Excessive secretion of urine. This may occur in any
animal from agents, medicinal or alimentary, which un-
duly stimulate the kidneys. The horse, however, is the
most frequent sufferer, being more than any other animal
subjected to reckless dosing by those about him with pri-
vate nostrums and much advertised quack preparations,
and to the exclusive use of musty and injured hay and
grain. Musty hay, grain or bran is perhaps the most
common cause, the noxious agent being probably the
cryptogams produced on this damp, heated fodder. Musty
oatmeal will even affect the human being. New oats,
_ very watery food like the refuse of distilleries, and cooked
food, seleniteous waters, acrid diuretic plants in the pas-
tures or hay, exposure to extreme cold and wet, and ex-
_ cessive thirst consequent on feeding salt or on irritation
of the stomach are other causes. Whole flocks of sheep
sometimes suffer at once from acrid plants eaten.
Symptoms. Frequent—often almost constant—passage
of a very pale-colored urine in large quantities and of low
specific gravity, insatiable thirst, rapid falling off in con-
dition and spirits, sluggishness and weakness at work and
perspiration on the slightest exertion. The discharges
are comparatively inodorous and more like water than
horse’s urine, and contain little solid matter though the
quantity of solids passed in twenty-four hours is in excess.
The skin becomes rough and hide-bound and all the signs
of ill-health set in, though the animal may suffer and sur-
vive for months or even a year. More commonly he dies
early of exhaustion, or glanders supervenes and kills the
patient.
Treatment is very successful in the early stages. Stop
the use of faulty food and drugs and give dry wholesome
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hay and grain with no suspicion of newness or mustiness.
Give a decoction of flaxseed freely with the water drunk,
with phosphate of iron 2 drachms, Peruvian bark 4
drachms and iodide of potassium 2 drachms daily. Cre-
osote may often be added with advantage.
BLOODY URINE. HAMATURIA.
This occurs after sprains of the loms or blows on this
region, with stone in the kidneys, urinary passages or blad-
der, cancer, tubercle or even abscess of the kidney, etc., or
lastly some poisoned condition of the blood, as in malig-
nant anthrax. Acrid diuretic plants, cantharides, May-
bugs, etc., are occasional causes. When bleeding occurs
from local irritation or in a tolerably healthy state of the
blood it is partly at least in the form of clots and fibrinous
casts of the uriniferous tubes, about one-hundreth inch in
diameter, and entangling blood-globules. If from poi-
soned and disintegrating blood, there is a diffuse colora-
tion with hematine, with perhaps fragments of blood-
elobules, but rarely perfect ones, clots or casts, and a sim-
ilar oozing of blood is liable to take place at other parts
of the body. The blood-coloring matter is easily distin-
guished from bile by chemical tests. It is less easily dis-
tinguished from the brownish-red albuminoids which es-
cape by the kidneys in Azotemia. Beside the passage of
blood there may be the general signs of urinary disorder,
but these are not constant. When gravel coexists gritty
masses pass with the urme or collect on the hair of the
prepuce.
Treatment. Remove the causes, give comfortable, dry
dwellings, sound food, mucilaginous drinks (linseed tea,
mallow, gums, elm, etc.,) and acid astringents (tincture of
chloride of iron, sugar of lead, vinegar, buttermilk and oak
bark). In profuse discharge cold water may be applied to
the loins, while in inflammatory cases a sheep-skin or
poultice may be first used and followed by a mustard
plaster. (See AzormMIA AND RED-WATER).
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NEPHRITIS. SIMPLE INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS.
Causes. Blows or sprains in the region of the loins,
stone in the kidneys, use of diuretics to excess, musty
fodder, irritant or acrid plants in hay, too extensive blis-
ters of Spanish flies, paralysis of the spinal cord.
Symptoms. A variable but often very high fever, heat
or even swelling of the loins, tenderness often extreme
beneath the bony processes about six inches from the
spine, a stiff, straddling gait with the hind limbs, little
- marked in chronic cases but so severe as to amount almost
to helplessness in the worst, the loins arched, progression
difficult and attended in some cases by groaning, there is
looking at the abdomen and colicky pains, more severe at
one time than another. If the patient lies down itis with
caution. In males there are alternate retraction and de-
scent of the testicles, and in all there is likely to be frequent
- passages of urine in small amount, of a very high color and
density, and containing fibrinous casts of the kidney tubes
one-hundreth of an inch in diameter, and sometimes blood
or even pus. ‘The bowels are costive and there is a rapid
pulse, an elevated temperature and excited breathing.
The legs tend to swell uniformly from the foot up, and
swellings may appear under the chest or belly, or even in
internal cavities.
General ill-health, with stocking of the legs, casts in the
urine and some tenderness of the loins to pressure, may
be all that is seen in the chronic cases.
Treatment. In acute cases, with strong pulse and ro-
bust patient, an immediate advantage may be gained by
bleeding, but this is rare. Give a laxative of olive-oil or
raw linseed-oil, or in case of necessity of Glauber salts or
aloes, accompanying this with an anodyne, (opium, bella-
donna, tobacco,) throw anodyne and mucilaginous injec-
tions into the rectum, and cover the loins with a fresh
sheep-skin, the fleshy side in, or with a soothing poultice or
fomentations, following this up in six or eight hours by a
mustard poultice. Mucilaginous drinks may be given
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freely, but diuretics are to be sedulously avoided and
warm clothing used to favor sweating and thus relieve the
kidneys of work. Laxatives and anodynes must be re-
peated as may seem necessary and finally a course of
bitter tonics may be allowed.
ALBUMINURIA. BRIGHT’S DISEASE. DESQUAMATIVE NEPHRITIS.
This consists in inflammation of the kidneys, acute or
chronic, with degeneration and shedding of the epithe-
hum from the kidney tubes.
Symptoms. More or less awkwardness of gait behind,
and tenderness of the loins, in some cases indisposition to
lie down, thick, gelatinous, ropy urine, with microscopic
casts of the kidney tubes, containing much spherical
epithelium and granular matter. The urine coagulates in
part in whitish flakes when boiled, or under the action of
corrosive sublimate, acetate of lead or nitric acid. The
general health suffers and the patient dies sooner or later
of uremia with dropsy, or of some other affection which
has been aggravated by the impaired vitality and the
excess of the elements of urine in the blood.
Treatment is not always satisfactory, though a certain
proportion recover. Avoid exposure to cold, keep in a
warm box and warmly clothed. Keep the bowels acting
freely by a restricted diet of warm bran mashes, etc., or
even by laxatives. Give tonics (phosphate of iron, quinia,
willow bark,) and mineral acids and use mustard appli-
cations to the loins. If the kidneys fail to act, do not
give diuretics, but use cupping over the part, or hot fo-
mentations with water, or better still a strong infusion of
digitalis.
Albuminous Urine, which is always ropy in horses, is no
proof of the existence of Bright’s disease, but is an attend-
ant on nearly all extensive inflammations of important
organs, on rheumatism, fevers and certain poisoned con-
ditions of the blood.
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SPASM OF THE NECK OF THE BLADDER.
Causes. Prolonged retention of urine in mares at work
or in horses hard driven. Chill when heated. Nervous
irritation. Is a common attendant on severe colic and
gives way when that is relieved. Males suffer most fre-
quently.
Symptoms. Frequent attempts to urinate, which prove
ineffectual or secure a dribbling only after much pain and
straining. There may be anxious looking at the flank
and uneasy shifting of the limbs, or in cattle twisting of
the tail. There is tenderness in the back part of the ab-
domen in the median line below. The hand, oiled and
introduced into the rectum, will feel the distended blad-
der, with its firm dense neck and no enlargement either
there or backward in the urethra, as from stone.
If unrelieved the bladder becomes immoderately dis-
tended and finally bursts, especially in ruminants. This
is followed by tenderness of the abdomen, febrile symp-
toms, dullness and languor, and if the bladder is exam-
ined it is found to be flaccid and tender. Perforation of
the lower part of the abdomen with the nozzle of a hypo-
dermic syringe allows the escape of urine, easily recog-
nized by its odor.
Treatment. Spreading fresh litter under the horse will
sometimes induce staling. If not, use antispasmodics in-
troduced by the rectum or even by the mouth (opium,
laudanum, belladonna or hyoscyamus extract, tobacco
smoke or solution, chloral-hydrate, lobelia, prussic acid,
cyanide of potassium, etc.) Solutions of any of these
agents may be rubbed on the perineum. Sometimes the
spasm will give way under gentile pressure on the bladder
with hand or finger in the rectum. Finally, all other
measures failing, the urine may be withdrawn with a well-
oiled catheter. This should be 4 inch in diameter for
the horse, + inch for the bull and a line for the dog. Con-
trary to the usual statement a small catheter may be
passed in the bull when the penis is sufficiently extended
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to efface the S-shaped bend of the penis. In the mare
the spasm may be overcome by the insertion of one or
two fingers through the opening which is found in the
median line of the floor of the passage about four inches
from the external orifice. In the cow care is required to
enter the central orifice as there is a blind sac on each
side.
PARALYSIS OF THE BLADDER
May occur from excessive over-distension, in connection
with lock-jaw or rheumatism which prevents stretching to
stale, with cystitis implicating the muscular coat, spasm
of the neck of the bladder, or decomposition of the urine.
It is attendant on disease or injury of the terminal part
of the spinal cord, on broken back, etc., and is then asso-
ciated with palsy of the tail and it may be of the hind
limbs.
Symptoms. Tf the neck is involved the urine dribbles
away constantly, without straiming, is discharged in the
sheath and runs down inside the thighs causing irritation
and inflammation in both. If the neck is unaffected the
urine accumulates in the bladder, causing over-distension,
irritation and rupture. ‘The urme decomposes, setting
free ammonia which softens and dissolves the epithelium
and establishes the worst type of cystitis.
Treatment. In cases of broken back or disease of the
spinal cord attention must be given to that and, if reme-
diable, the urine must be drawn off frequently with a cath-
eter to prevent over-distension and injury to the bladder.
In local paralysis, or after the spinal cord has recovered,
apply a blister (mustard) between the thighs beneath the
anus or vulva or over the back part of the belly inferiorly.
Give belladonna extract (1 to 2 drachms), cantharides (1 to
3 grains) or nux-vomica (+ drachm for large herbivora).
INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER. CYSTITIS.
Causes. Abuse of diuretics, acrid diuretic plants in
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the food, the application of blisters (Spanish flies, turpen-
tine,) over too extensive surfaces, prolonged retention and
decomposition of urine, irritation from stone in the blad-
der, ete.
Symptoms. If confined to the mucous membrane urine
is passed frequently, painfully, in small quantities, with
more or less floating mucus and flat, microscopic, fibri-
nous shreds of exudation entangling columnar or scaly ep-
ithelium. The bladder is very tender to the touch and
if the finger is passed into it in the female its neck and
walls are felt to be thickened, sometimes enormously.
There are colicky pains, frequent looking at the flanks, un-
easy movements of the hind feet or twisting of the tail.
The gait is stiff and straddling. There is fever, usually
shght. If the muscular coat is involved there is disten-
sion of the bladder, and if the neck participates the urime
escapes involuntarily. If due to unrelieved stone that will
be found on examination.
The case is most hopeful if due to irritants or some clearly
removable cause.
Treatment. Remove the cause, whether food, drugs,
blistering agents on the skin, stone, gravel or retained and
decomposed urine. Give spare, soft, aqueous diet with
mucilaginous agents (linseed decoction or tea, slippery
elm, gums, etc.,) laxatives of olive or linseed-oul, soft pure
water at will, and mucilaginous and anodyne injections
into the bladder (gum Arabic 1 drachm, opium 1 drachm,
tepid water 1 pint). Blisters may be used in paralysis.
In severe cases these may be preceded by fomentations.
Finally, when the acute symptoms have subsided, small
doses of stimulating diuretics (copaiva, cubebs, juniper,
buchu,) will often serve to tone up the mucous membrane.
INFLAMMATION OF THE URETHRA. GONORRH@A. GLEERT.
Causes. Like cystitis this may depend on irritants in
the urine, taken by the mouth or applied to the surface,
excessive copulation, connection with a newly-delivered
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female or one that has otherwise contracted a vaginal dis-
charge, mechanical injury to the penis in serving females,
irritation from the passage or arrest of small stones or
gravel.
Symptoms. Swelling and soreness in the sheath and
penis, pain in urinating, the liquid coming in jets and fre-
quently arrested because of the suffermg. In dogs there
is continual licking of the organ and soon a creamy pus
drops from the orifice.
Treatment. If before the discharge of pus, give a laxa-
tive and foment the parts with warm water. Wash out
any gravel. If after suppuration, use soothing or astrin-
gent injections (permanganate of potassa, acetate of lead,
sulphate of zine or nitrate of silver, 2 grains to 1 oz. water).
Tonics and stimulating diuretics may be finally needed as
in cystitis. A soft restricted diet is demanded.
STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA.
Usually a result of local irritation :—gravel, strong as-
tringent injections used in the early stage of gonorrhcea or
the healing of ulcers formed when that disease is neg-
lected.
Symptoms. Great difficulty in urination, the liquid es-
caping in a fine stream and with pain. Frequent painful
erections.
Treatment. Passing, daily, catheters of gradually in-
creasing sizes, beginning with one just large enough to
enter with gentle force.
EVERSION OF THE BLADDER
Can occur only in the female, from severe straining in
irritation of the urinary organs, and especially after the
organ has been rendered torpid or paralyzed by over-dis-
tension, severe parturition or otherwise. The animal
strains violently and a red, tumid, rounded mass appears
from between the lips of the vulva. On examining its
surface near the neck the two orifices of the ureters may
be detected with the urine oozing from them in drops.
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Treatment. Wash with milk-warm water containing
laudanum, and return, pressing the centre of the mass in-
ward so as to correct the eversion. The main difficulty
will be met in returning it through the contracted neck of
the bladder, and if the eversion has lasted long enough to
determine inflammation and softening great care will be
requisite to avoid tearing the coats. Should straining be
so violent as to threaten renewal of the eversion a truss
may be applied as advised for eversion of the womb.
URINARY CALCULI AND GRAVEL. STONE.
These vary in chemical composition with the genus of
animal and especially with the nature of the food. In
herbivora the urine normally contains a large amount of
the carbonates of lime and magnesia and of oxalate of lime,
a small quantity of silica, sulphate and phosphate of lime,
ammonio-magnesian phosphate, hippuric acid and some-
times uric acid, besides the more soluble alkaline salts.
Carnivora, on the other hand, have an excess of phosphate
of lime and magnesia, of sulphates and chlorides, more
uric acid than the vegetable feeders but a minimum amount
of carbonate and oxalate of lime and silica. ‘The omnivora
occupy an intermediate position, the salts of the urine va-
rying with the frequent changes in the food.
The nature of the food determines the excess of particular
salts in the urine and their precipitation in the form of
crystals.
These carbonates of lime and magnesia which make up
the bulk of most urinary calculi in horses and ruminants,
are due to the large amount of vegetable acids (citrates,
tartrates, malates, acetates, etc.,) in plants. These becom-
ing further oxidized are transformed into carbonic acid
which unites with the magnesia or lime present in the
blood.
Oxalate of lime is due to imperfect oxidation of the veg-
etable acids, oxalic acid containing an equivalent less of
oxygen than carbonic acid. It appears in excess in cer-
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tain diseases of the lungs or other conditions which inter-
fere with respiration.
Silica enters the system as silicate of potassa in food
and water and especially m cyperaceza, horsetails, oat-
straw, oat-meal, etc. It is displaced as silica whenever it
comes in contact with a stronger acid.
Phosphates enter the system in bran, in beans, peas,
and the leguminous seeds generally, in oil-cake and rape-
cake, or (the carnivora) in the flesh and bones. When
present in undue amount in a given quantity of urine they
tend to crystallize out, but when a large amount of phos-
phate of magnesia is present, it is only necessary that the
urine should be retained longer than usual in the bladder
and that decomposition should set in with evolution of am-
monia, to have the insoluble ammonia-magnesian phos-
phate at once thrown down.
Sulphate of lime is derived from nip in the water
or the oxidation of sulphur contained in the albuminoid
principles of food.
Urea, Uric Acid, Hippuric Acid, Creatine, Creatinine,
Kiestine, Leucin, Tyrosin, ete., are all nitrogenous elements,
derived from the waste of muscle and gelatinous tissues,
or from albuminoid matters in the food. Urea is to be
looked on as the healthy product of such decomposition,
while uric and hippuric acids, etc., are products in which
the process of oxidation has stopped short, leaving the
products in a less soluble condition and more lable to
crystallize out of the urine. Impaired breathing from dis-
eased lings or otherwise and imperfect action of the liver,
whether from local disease in that organ or from feverish
states, with impaired functions generally, are therefore
among the causes which strongly predispose to urimary
calcul.
Beside these a certain amount of mucus, fat, coloring
matter and even blood enter into the formation of uriary
caleuli.
Accessory Causes. 'To the above named causes favoring
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the formation of urinary calculi, may be added all such as
favor concentration of the urine. Thus scarcity of drink-
ing water, excessive loss of liquid by the bowels or skin,
(diarrhoea, dysentery, etc.,) dry winter feeding on hay and
grain, feverish states in which little urine is secreted, and
hard waters appear to have this effect. The last named
cause is not generally credited by physicians but its coin-
cidence with the prevalence of stone is exceedingly com-
mon.
Mode of Formation. The first requisite is that some
solid body should exist as a nucleus around which layer
after layer is crystallized, and hence the stone is always
composed of a series of concentric layers. The nucleus .-
may consist in a particle of mucus, fibrine or blood, a
erystal deposited from over-saturated urine, or even a for-
eign body introduced from without. I have seen a large
calculus in the kidney of a deer formed around a piece of
wood which must have penetrated the kidney and broken
off, while the wound by which it entered had healed up.
Appearance. Calculi vary much in character but the
most marked varieties are the smooth stones formed by
carbonates, oxalates, phosphates and silica, and the
rough jagged crystalline specimens of ammonio-magnesian
phosphates.
Renal Calculi. Those found in the kidney are usually
moulded in the pelvis, though I have found many like
small lentils in dilatations of the microscopic tubes in the
substance of the gland. Cattle fed on dry hay and grain,
during winter, rarely want small yellow crystalline masses
in the pelvis. Even when so large as to distend the pel-
vis and weigh several ounces they are not always incom-
patible with good health and aptitude to fatten. When
so large or rough as to produce manifest disorder, this
appears as irritation of the kidneys, tender loins, stiff
straddling gait, etc., with the passage of microscopic crys-
tals, and perhaps blood or pusin the urine. In cattle and
sheep the salts from the concentrated urine usually crys-
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tallize out on the hairs around the opening of the sheath.
All species of domestic quadrupeds suffer.
There is no satisfactory treatment and the great object
is to prevent their formation by the measures named
below.
Uretral Calcul. ‘These are lodged in the small canals
which convey the urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
They are usually formed in the pelvis of the kidney and
being washed on with the urine are arrested in the ureter.
The symptoms are more violent than those of renal cal-
culi, since the flow of the urine is checked and the ureter
and pelvis of the kidney are over-distended, while the kid-
ney itself undergoes inflammation and, if the animal sur-
vives, 1s finally removed by absorption, the opposite kid-
ney meanwhile enlarging and doing the work of two. The
colics and general symptoms are like those of nephritis.
The elastic distended ureter may sometimes be felt with
the oiled hand introduced through the rectum. Like re-
nal calculus this is usually irremediable. Antispasmodics
will sometimes succeed by relaxing the duct and allowing
the accumulated urine to pass the obstruction onward.
They are best given by injection into the bowel. If ne-
phritis sets in the treatment must correspond.
Cystic Calculus. Stone in the Bladder. Seen in all do-
mestic animals.
Symptoms. Frequent strainmg to pass urine, which
escapes in dribblets, in jets checked by a sudden arrest,
or not at all. Blood in clots, and microscopic crystals
or calculi usually pass with the urine. Examination with
the oiled hand in the rectum will detect the rounded mass
in the bladder, especially if it is partially filled with water.
In the female it may be struck by a smooth metallic
sound, or even touched with the finger.
Treatment. By breaking the stone into small pieces
which may pass with the urine (lithotrity), or by extrac-
tion whole after dilatation or cutting of the passages (lith-
otomy). Lithotrity is effected with the lithotrite of the
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Diseases of the Urinary Organs. 215
surgeon and is only applicable to the female quadruped,
in which extraction is usually easy and safe. A pair of
long, round-bladed tongs like a glove-stretcher may be
used to slowly dilate the neck of the bladder, after which
the warmed and oiled forceps, the blades of which should
be broad enough to cover the stone, are introduced and the
stone being seized is slowly withdrawn by gentle oscillating
movements. The injection of a little warm water into an
empty bladder will greatly facilitate the seizure of the
stone. The male is operated on standing or thrown on
his right side. A catheter is passed up the urethra to the
point where it bends forward over the hip bones and an
incision about two inches long made down upon this in
the median line. If the stone is small the forceps may
now be introduced and the calculus withdrawn as in the
female. If too large for this the passage must be dilated
with a probe-pointed knife, guided by a grooved director
or the index finger, the incision being carried obliquely
between the point of the hip-bone and the anus. The
stone once removed the opening may be stitched up and
treated like any ordinary wound. In the ox a catheter
should be passed as a guide in cutting, as the thickness of
the erectile tissue over the arch of the hip bone and the
small size of the urethra render the operation far more
difficult than in the horse. (For further particulars see
the author’s larger work).
Urethral Caleuli. Stone in the canal by which urine is
discharged from the bladder. In horses these are found
in the terminal end of the urethra and its papille on the
glans penis. In the bull and ox in the S-shaped bend of
the penis just above the scrotum, and in the ram in the
same situation or, more frequently, in the vermiform ap-
pendix at the point of the penis. In horses the straining
is violent and constant, in cattle and sheep it is little
marked, but the tail is slghtly raised and the accelerator
urine muscle is seen contracting just beneath the anus as
in ordinary urination. Examination along the course of
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the urethra will detect one or more hard nodular enlarge-
ments at the S-shaped curve or elsewhere. If more than
one are present, they may be made to grate on each other.
Treatment. If in the papilla or vermiform appendix,
try to extract by manipulation. Should this fail, sht open
the duct, or in the ram cut off the appendix. If higher
up it must be cut down upon, through the skin, and ex-
tracted. In cattle it is desirable to first pull the penis
backward or forward so that the incision may clear the
scrotum with its excess of areolar tissue and fat.
PREPUTIAL CALCULI. STONES IN THE PREPUCE OR SHEATH.
In oxen and sheep urmary salts often crystallize out on
the hairs and may even block the passage somewhat. They
are easily removed by manipulation or with scissors. The
accumulations of sebaceous matter, in the bilocular cavity
on the end of the penis or in the sheath of the horse, some-
times receive this name. «They are best removed by
thorough washing with soap and warm water, and the
parts may then be lubricated with sweet-oil.
SAND-LIKE DEPOSIT OR SOFT MAGMA IN THE BLADDER.
This is frequent in the horse, the spherical granules of
carbonate of lime and magnesia remaining apart instead
of becoming agglutinated into a stone. Its mildest form
is shown in the passage of a white matter at the comple-
tion of the act of urmation. When accumulated so as to
fill half of the bladder or more, this comes away in large
amount and is found within the sheath and on the inner
sides of the thighs, for the urine escapes involuntarily and
continuously.
Treatment. Wash out the bladder by pumping water
through a catheter by means of Reed’s stomach pump or
a syringe, then shake it up with the hand introduced
through the rectum and allow the muddy lquid to flow
out through the catheter. Repeat this until the bladder is
emptied and the water comes away clear.
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Prevention. The next point is to prevent its forming
anew by measures calculated to obviate urinary calculi in
general. Correct any fault in feeding—excess of beans,
peas, bran, etc.,—and any disorder in the liver functions.
Give abundance of soft water, encouraging its ingestion by
a fair supply of salt, let the food be aqueous, consisting
largely of roots, especially carrots, and give daily in the
drinking water 1 dr. caustic soda or potassa, or common
ashes from hard wood. A course of bitters should also be
given (cascarilla, columba, willow bark, gentian, quassia,
or others).
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CHAPTER XI.
DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF GENERATION.
General causes. Inflammation of the testicle. Dropsy of the scrotum,
Hydrocele. Water stones. Tumors of the sheath. Disease of the penis.
Ulcers of the penis. Castration of males. [Evil results of castration.
Strangulated cord. Swelling of the sheath. Phymosis. Paraphymosis.
Tumor on the spermatic cord. Castration of females. Castration of male
birds. Abortion. Difficult parturition. Premature labor pains. Induration
of the neck of the womb. ‘Twisting of the neck of the womb. Polypus in
the vagina. Wrong presentations, deformities, etc. Maxims for assisting in
difficult parturition. Anterior presentation with head or fore limb turned
back. Posterior presentation with one or both hind limbs turned back.
With water in the head or abdomen. Disorders following parturition.
Flooding. Retained afterbirth. Leucorrhcea, catarrh of the womb or va-
gina. version of the womb or vagina. Inflammation of the womb, Metri-
tis. Parturition fever, milk fever, parturient apoplexy.
Are mostly confined to breeding and dairying districts.
They are largely obviated by castration and the virgin
condition. Amongst the principal causes may be men-
tioned mechanical injuries, excitement and irritation ac-
companying coition, gestation, parturition, over-officious
or iil-directed assistance in delivery, a very rich or poor
diet, tuberculosis, poisons, (ergot, savin, rue, cantharides,
etc.,) sympathetic irritation from excessive milking, from
disease or injury of the mammary glands, of the urimary
organs or of the rectum.
INFLAMMATION OF THE TESTICLE.
Occurs mainly from external injury, though it may be
roused by excessive copulation, or by glanderous deposit
or other diseased process in the organ. The animal moves
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stiffly and with a straddling gait, and the testicle is en-
larged, tender and frequently drawn up and dropped down
again. It is to be treated with a dose of purgative medi-
cine, restricted soft diet, fomentations with warm water,
and smearing of the bag in the intervals with extract of
belladonna, laudanum or some other anodyne. Should
fluctuation announce the formation of pus, make an open-
ing with a sharp knife to evacuate it, while if destruction
of the gland is threatened castration must be performed.
HYDROCELE. DROPSY OF THE SCROTUM.
Usually associated with water in the abdomen. Distin-
guished from scrotal hernia by not passing back with a
sudden movement but with a steady current and gradual
diminution. The same treatment is needed as in ascites.
WATER STONES.
Tn geldings a considerable accumulation of water often
takes place in multilocular cavities connected with the
still pervious inguinal canal, which may be emptied by
compression, the water returning to the abdomen with a
continued thrill. They often disappear in winter to reap-
pear the followmg summer. ‘Though not injurious they
may be removed by cutting down on the cavities and
dissecting out the sacs.
TUMORS OF THE SHEATH.
These are easily removed by twisting them off. Some,
however, bleed freely and these should have a stout waxed
twine tied firmly round their necks and be then twisted
or allowed to drop off. If bleeding occurs after removal
seize the bleeding orifice with forceps and tie with a waxed
thread. |
DISEASE OF THE PENIS.
Small warty growths may be cut off with scissors or
knife and the part cauterized with lunar caustic. The
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soft condylomatous growths which occur in dogs may be
treated in the same way. But when the large cauliflower-
like masses are associated with hardening of the whole
end of the organ, it must be amputated behind the indu-
rated portion. The subject should be prepared by laxa-
tive diet, and, having been thrown, the yard is withdrawn,
washed, and cut through gradually, beginning at its upper
part and tying the arteries as they are reached. On
reaching the urethra at the lower part of the yard it is to
be dissected out, and cut across so as to leave it # of an
inch longer than the rest. Considerable bleeding from
the venous cavities may come on a few hours later, and
especially in hot weather, but may be easily controlled by
dashing cold water between the thighs or stuffing the
sheath with tow saturated with tincture of matico or muri-
ate of iron.
ULCERS OF THE PENIS.
These may arise from accumulation of sebaceous matter
but more frequently from the irritant discharges in a
female recently delivered or suffering from leucorrheea.
They may be treated with a lotion such as the following:
—sugar of lead, 1 dr.; carbolic acid, 60 drops; chloral-
hydrate, 1 dr. ; water, 1 pint.
CASTRATION OF MALES.
Numerous modes of castrating the male are followed,
but in all the essential points are the removal or destruc-
tion of the testicles and the prevention of bleeding from
the spermatic artery which is always found in the ante-
rior portion of the cord. In small animals (pigs, lambs,
calves, dogs, cats,) the testicle is seized so as to render
the skin tense, and a free incision with knife parallel to
the median line sets it free at once. The knife is now
passed between the middle and posterior parts of the cord
and the latter cut through. The anterior portion is then
twisted and finally torn through, the upper part being
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held by the finger and thumb of one hand while traction
is made by the other. In the colt and old horses and
bulls the structures are so tough that the cord must
be seized by two pairs of pincers in order to accomplish
satisfactory twisting.
Clamps (sticks) are very generally employed in horses,
the important considerations being that the wood shall be
tough and unyielding, that they shall be grooved to give
greater security of hold, that they shall be tied together
with well twined inelastic cords, and that when applied
they shall be squeezed together with pincers, while the
end is being tied, that the included tissues may have their
vitality destroyed.
The other methods of tying, searing and scraping the
artery, etc., cannot be described here, though one plan
will succeed as well as another if properly done. For
these and castration of cryptorchids (originals, rigs,) see
larger work.
EVIL RESULTS OF CASTRATION.
STRANGULATED CorD. When the cord is left. unduly
long and the wound in the skin small, it may be strangled
by the swelling and contraction, giving rise to intense
suffermg and high fever. The beast walks with a stiff
gait, and the end of the cord is felt red and tense, protrud-
ing from the wound which grasps it tightly. All that is
necessary is to enlarge the orifice with a knife and push
up the cord to give permanent relief.
SWELLING OF THE SHEATH may occur, and especially in
the young, from unhealthy states of the system, or from
premature closure of the wound and imprisonment of mat-
ter. In all such cases reopen the wound with the fingers
and apply fresh lard to prevent a second adhesion. It is
a good plan to apply lard to the wounds in castrating to
obviate adhesion. Next foment the parts continually with
warm water to hasten the formation of matter. When a
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free cream-like discharge is established the swelling will
rapidly subside.
PHyMOSIS AND ParapHymosis. In such cases the penis
may be imprisoned within the sheath or protruded and
swollen so that it cannot be withdrawn. It may be nec.
essary to incise the sheath or scarify the penis and ap-
ply cold water and other astringents, with manipulation to
return the protruded organ.
TuMORS ON THE SPERMATIC CorD. This results from
rough handling in castrating, from strangulation, or from
inflammation consequent on the presence of irritants in the
wound or exposure to cold. It may grow for years with-
out disabling the animal ; its growth may cease, leaving an
inconsiderable thickening on the cord ; it may acquire the
size of a large udder of a cow, and contract numerous
vascular adhesions to surrounding parts; or it may extend
up through the inguinal canal into the abdomen, as felt
on examination through the rectum.
Treatment. 'Those confined to the end of the cord may
be removed like the testicle in castration. Those that
have contracted adhesions to the thigh and sheath may
still be removed with care, each vessel being tied as it is
reached. But when the adhesions are very extensive and
the tumor very large it is almost impossible to do this,
and in the case of extension of the disease into the abdo-
men nothing can be done beyond partial destruction of the
mass with caustics.
CASTRATION OF FEMALES.
In small animals this is done through the flank ; in large,
more conveniently through the vagina. ‘The animal is
stretched on its left side, the fore limbs and head being
firmly secured and the hind limbs extended backwards.
The hair is shaved from the flank a little below the angle
of the hip-bone, and an incision made from above down,
extending to an inch in the pig or bitch, or sufficient to in-
troduce the hand in the heifer. Then with the finger or
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hand, as the case may be, the womb is sought, backward
at the entrance of the pelvis in the interval between the
bladder and the straight gut. Being found, one horn or
division is drawn up through the wound until its end is
exposed with the round mass of the ovary adjacent. The lat-
ter is seized and cut or twisted off according to the size of
the animal. Then the next horn and ovary are brought
out and treated in the same way. The womb is now re-
turned into the abdomen, and the skin accurately sewed
up. vil results are rare, though peritonitis may ensue
from rough handling or exposure, and abscess or calcifica-
tion of the wound is not unknown.
Cows are castrated by making an incision through the
superior wall of the vagina just above the neck of the
womb, and inserting two fingers, by which the ovaries are
withdrawn and twisted off with a torsion instrument.
Space will not allow of a fuller description in this work.
CASTRATION OF MALE BIRDS.
The bird is placed on its back with the left leg pressed
against the abdomen and the right one stretched back-
wards and outward, an incision is made inside this thigh
large enough to admit the finger, which is directed toward
the back at the point of union of the last ribs with the
backbone. There the testicles are felt in contact with
each other and are separately detached with the nail and
extracted through the wound. If lost in the abdomen
after detachment there is no matter, they will adhere to
the peritoneum and become absorbed. Lastly the wound
in the skin is carefully sewed up with a fine thread.
ABORTION.
This consists of the expulsion of the foetus before it can
live out of the womb, but in the lower animals the term
has been indiscriminately used for cases of premature
parturition as well.
Causes. Blows or pressure on the abdomen, slips, falls,
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riding of animals in heat, diseases of the abdominal organs,
(tympanitis from wet, frosted or musty fodder, inflamma-
tion of the bowels, diarrhoea, poisoning by irritants taken
with the food or otherwise, renal calculi or other diseases
of the kidneys or bladder,) stalls too much inclined back-
ward, overfeeding, plethora, hot, damp, relaxing stables,
severe muscular exertion after long rest, exhausting feed-
ing for milk at the expense of the system, breeding at too
early an age, proximity to or contact with slaughter-houses
or dead and decomposing animal matter, especially the
abortion discharges of other animals, drinking putrid
or iced water, disease, deformity or death of the foetus,
feeding on ergoted grasses or smutty wheat or corn, and,
finally, the presence in the passages of a microscopic veg-
etable parasite (leptothrix vaginalis) which is easily trans-
ferred from one animal to another so as to procure abor-
tion.
Symptoms. In the early stages of gestation abortion
often takes place without any warning and is only ascer-
tained by the animal again coming in heat. Later the
preliminary signs and progress may be those of an ordi-
nary parturition, or in other cases a whitish muco-purulent
discharge may take place from the vulva for some time
before abortion occurs. A filling of the udder and a loose,
flaccid condition of the external generative organs often
furnish premonitions.
Prevention. Treatment. Avoid the various causes above
named when found to exist. Especially should attention
be given to secure a diet and regimen which shall obviate in-
digestion, to eradicate from the hay-fields all irritant plants,
to feed a certain amount of roots in winter to obviate urin-
nary calculi, to cut meadows subject to ergot before they
run to seed, or better still to plow them up and put under
a rotation of other crops, to feed roots with ergoted hay or
smutty corn if these must be consumed, to let the system
be somewhat developed before breeding and not to milk
too heavily the first year, to give pure air and water
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and wholesome buildings, and, finally, to use anti-septics
on the discharges and to keep all sound animals apart
from the diseased or their products. A beast abort-
ing, from whatever cause, should be allowed to run over
several periods of heat before she is served again. When
abortions have broken out in a herd good results have fol-
lowed a course of chlorate of potassa in $ oz. doses daily.
When the beasts are plethoric benefit has been derived
from bleeding or a bare diet with occasional mild laxatives.
When run down by poor feeding or by early breeding and
feeding for milk, a course of tonics (phosphate of soda,
sulphate of iron, gentian and ginger,) has proved beneficial.
When the discharge and other premonitory symptoms ap-
pear laudanum may be given in large and repeated doses
to quiet the system and keep the tendency in check.
Quiet and seclusion are no less essential. When the
abortion becomes inevitable it must be allowed to proceed
or assistance given if necessary as in parturition.
DIFFICULT PARTURITION.
Parturition is easy in most of the lower animals, the
wedge-like outline of the foetus when normally presented
with the long head extended between the fore limbs ren-
dering it an affair of mechanical simplicity. The same is
true of the presentation of the two hind feet. If left to
nature the passages are prepared by the relaxation of the
ligaments of the pelvis and falling in on each side of the
croup; they are then gently and equably dilated by the
advancing soft and elastic water-bags; and then if the
back of the foetus is turned toward the back of the mother
so that the curvature of its body may correspond to that
of the pelvis, the process is rarely difficult or protracted.
Danger arises mainly from parturition being precipi-
tated before its natural period, from unnatural conditions
of the passages, from distortions of the foetus or from turn-
ing back of one or more members so as to impair the reg-
ularity of the wedge and to increase the bulk posteriorly.
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PREMATURE LABOR-PAINS.
Caused by excitement of travel, goring or riding by their
fellows, blows and other mechanical injuries, violent pur-
gation or diuresis, diseases of the digestive or urinary or-
gans or womb, ergoted grasses, etc. If there is no relax-
ation of the pelvic igaments and falling in at the side of
the rump, no enlargement of the vulva, no dilatation of the
neck of the womb nor any enlargement of the bag, place
in a secluded place and keep quiet by repeated doses of
opium. The pains will usually subside. Even if other-
wise apparently prepared the closed neck of the womb
will demand similar rest and anodynes, though a little
solid extract of belladonna may in this case be smeared -
round the neck of the womb to favor relaxation.
INDURATION OF THE NECK OF THE WOMB is often errone-
ously supposed to exist in these cases, but such a conclu-
sion need not be reached until the quieting treatment has
been followed for one or two days without success and the
neck of the womb remains rigid, nodular and gristly.
Being fully convinced that the closure is due to disease it
may be dilated by passing in a narrow-bladed, blunt-
pointed (probe-pointed) knife and cutting to the depth of a
quarter of an inch in four directions, upward, downward,
to the right and left. Then the hand may be introduced
with fingers and thumb drawn into the form of a cone and
the passage gradually dilated. Or the sponge tents used
by the physician may be employed.
TWISTING OF THE NECK OF THE WOMB so that the lower
surface of the organ comes to look upwards or to one side,
is a curious form of obstruction hitherto only seen in the
cow. It may be surmised when labor-pains continue
without any appearance of water-bags, and conclusive evi-
dence is furnished by the neck of the womb being closed
and thrown into spiral folds. Place the patient with its
head uphill to relax the twisted neck and introducing
the hand into the womb, seize the foetus and press it
against the uterine walls, while one or two men roll the
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cow on its other side in the same direction in which the
twist has taken place. If the womb is not distended by
decomposition of a dead foetus, nor attached to adjacent
parts by inflammatory exudations the untwisting 1s easily
effected, though several successive attempts may be requi-
site to secure it. Suddenly constriction around the wrist
gives way, the water-bags enter the passage and delivery
1S easy.
Ponypus IN THE Vacina. A tumor growing from the
walls of this passage is another obstacle to parturition.
By examination its point of attachment is found, and it
should be slowly twisted off or, better still, removed by an
ecraseur, an instrument with a pitch-chain which is gradu-
ally tightened so as to cut through the parts without loss
of blood.
WRONG PRESENTATIONS, DEFORMITIES, ETC.
Maxims For ASSISTING IN DirFicuLT Parturition. Never
interfere too soon. Let the water-bags burst spontaneously
when they have fulfilled their purpose of dilating the pas-
sages. If there is no mechanical obstacle, let the foetus
be expelled by the unaided efforts of the mother. Never
insert the arm for any purpose without first smearing it with
oil or fresh lard. When the water-bags have ruptured
and the pains have continued for some time without any
presentation, examine. When one fore foot only and the
head, or both fore feet without the head, or the head with-
out the feet, or one hind foot without the other appears,
examine. Whatever part is presented should be secured
by a cord, with a running noose, before it is pushed back
to search for the others. In searching for a missing
member the dam should be placed with her head down-
hill and if recumbent should be laid on the side opposite
to that on which the limb is missing. Even if the missing
member is reached do not attempt to bring it up during a
pain. Violent straining may be checked by pinching the
back. If the passages have lost their natural lubricating
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mucus, smear them and the body of the foetus thickly with
lard before attempting to extract. In dragging upon the
foetus apply force only when the mother strains, and pull
slightly down toward the hocks as well as backward. If
under the necessity of cutting off a limb, first skin it from
near the foot and leave the skin attached to the trunk.
Never cut off a member in the middle, but in the case of
fore imb bring away the shoulder-blade, orin the hind
the thigh-bone.
HEAD OR FORE LIMB TURNED BACK. Secure the presenting
limbs with ropes having a running noose drawn tightly
round the fetlock, or the head with a noose round the lower
jaw, or still better round the neck behind the ears, then
pushing them back secure the missing part and bring it into
position. In searching for the missing parts it is well to
follow those already presented. The left arm will usually
answer best for a limb at the left side of the womb, and
the right arm for the right. Reaching the shoulder, the
hand may be slid down to beneath the elbow and that
joint bent so as to bring the knee up; then the hand is
shpped past the knee to the shank and by a similar move-
ment, pushing back the upper part of the limb and pull-
ing forward the lower, the foot is brought up and secured
with a.noose. All are then brought forward and delivery
is easy. In order to bring up the missing part it is often
needful that an assistant shall push back the body of the
foetus after the limb has been seized. The assistant may
stand with his back to that of the operator and introduce
his left arm along by the operator’s right or vice versa.
Or a smooth round pole like a fork-handle may be intro-
duced and planted in the breast of the foetus as a means
of pushing it back. In either case the pressure should be
shghtly upward toward the back of the foetus so as to
bring up the breast and fore limb toward the passage.
The missing head may be turned back on either side,
downward upon the breast or upward upon the back.
First ascertain its position, then if it cannot be reached by
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pulling the limbs forward into the passage, push back the
body in such a way as will favor the advance of the head.
Tf the ear is reached the head may be pulled by it, till the
socket of the eye can be gained, and the body being still
pushed back the nose can soon be seized and brought up.
Often itis necessary to insert a hook into the eye socket
or between the branches of the lower jaw, so that more
force may be exerted. The ring in this case should be
turned at right angles to the hook, and a cord passed from
the hook side of the ring, to the opposite, and then knot-
ted so that the greater the force applied the firmer it will
hold.
_ PRESENTATION OF ONE HIND LIMB ALONE is recognized by
examining it as far up as the hock, which cannot possibly
be mistaken for the knee. The same principles are ap-
plied-here. Noose the presenting limb, and pushing back
upon it and the buttocks, bring up first the hock and then
the foot, bending all the joints to their utmost. In the
cow success can usually be counted on, but the long hind
shanks of the foal often prove an insuperable obstacle, and
it becomes needful to cut the hamstrings and, leaving the
hock bent, to straighten out the limb above this and
extract in this position.
PRESENTATION OF THE BUTTOCKS is to be recognized by
the rounded mass, with the tail and beneath it the anus
and perhaps the vulva. The process of extraction does
not differ from that last described, but in very powerful
mares the pains may be so violent and constant that it is
impossible to bring up even the hocks, and the limbs have
to be separated at the hip-joint and extracted separately,
after which the trunk will come easily.
DOUBLE HEADS AND BODIES AND SUPERFLUOUS LIMBS have
to be removed on the same general principles, but space
forbids their further notice here.
WATER IN THE HEAD is often an insuperable barrier to
delivery, to be easily recognized by manual examination,
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and as readily relieved by plunging a knife through the
membranes and evacuating the liquid.
WATER IN THE ABDOMEN is equally frequent and to be
obviated in a similar manner.
DISORDERS FOLLOWING PARTURITION.
Fioopinc. Bleeding from the walls of the womb.
Mostly after a too hasty parturition in which the uterine
walls are exhausted and fail to contract; or when the
womb has suffered violence in extraction of the foetus.
Symptoms. Bloodless pallor of the mucous membranes,
coldness of the surface, weakness, weak pulse, with or
without palpitation of the heart and discharge of blood
from the vulva. The hand introduced into the womb
finds that organ soft, flaccid, dilated and filled with liquid
or clotted blood.
Treatment. Apply cold water or bags of ice to the loms
and external genital organs, remove the afterbirth and
clots with the hand and, if necessary, inject cold water,
acids (vinegar, dilute mineral acids,) astringents (sugar of
lead, tannin, matico, alum,) into the womb, and give small
doses of acetate of lead or ergot of rye by the mouth. In
desperate cases a large sponge soaked in tincture of the
muriate of iron may be introduced into the womb and
emptied by squeezing. If the patient is sinking it may
often be saved by transfusion of blood from another
animal.
RETAINED AFTERBIRTH. Causes. Premature parturition,
poverty of condition, too hurried delivery and failure to
establish subsequent contractions, adhesions, the result of
pre-existing inflammation in the womb, etc.
If not removed it rots away piecemeal, a portion remain-
ing and putrefying in the womb, causing irritation, dis-
charge, rapid loss of condition and milk and in some cases
absorption of putrid matter and poisoning.
Treatment. Various methods are followed. 1. Attach
a pound weight to the mass, so that the constant tugging
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may stimulate the womb to contraction and expulsion of
the afterbirth. 2. Seize the mass close up to the vulva
between two pieces of wood and dragging gently move it
from side to side to titillate the passages and stimulate the
womb to contraction. 3. Give a dose of physic (Glauber
or Epsom salts) with aromatics (ginger, pepper, copaiva,
cardamoms, caraway, etc.) 4. The most satisfactory
method is to remove it by the hand, in twelve to twenty-
four hours after parturition, before the neck of the womb
has closed so as to forbid the introduction of the arm. In
cows the protruding membranes are gently pulled upon by
the left hand while the right is introduced into the womb
and the connecting cotyledons or placentule of the mem-
branes are, one by one, squeezed out from their connec-
tions with those of the womb. The process may be slow,
as fifty such connections may demand separation, but
patience will be crowned with final success, the great
- points being to tear nothing and to bring up and separate
the last portions as perfectly as the first.
Prevention. In poverty-stricken animals much may
often be done by warm sloppy food for a week or two
prior to parturition.
LEvUcoRRH@A. CATARRH OF THE Wome or Vacina. This
often results from retained afterbirth or violence done in
parturition, but may occur independently of both or even
in the virgin animal. There is a whitish discharge from
the vulva, foetid if from retained afterbirth, with rapid
falling off in flesh and milk, in spirit and appetite. The
subjects can rarely be impregnated.
Treatment. Introduce a catheter into the womb, draw
off the contained fluid, wash out with tepid water intro-
‘duced through the tube, and inject one of the following
-solutions: 1 drachm of sulphate of zinc, sulphate of cop-
per, acetate of lead, permanganate of potassa or carbolic
acid, or + drachm chloride of zinc, dissolved in a pint of
water and five ounces of glycerine added. This injection
should be repeated daily until the discharge ceases. A
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course of tonics should accompany this treatment (sul-
phate of iron 2 drachms, pepper 1 drachm, ginger }
oz., gentian 4 oz. daily.
EVERSION OF THE VAGINA OR Wom. The former may oc-
cur before parturition or even in the virgin state, the lat-
ter only after parturition. Hot, relaxing stables and regi-
men and too great a slope of the stalls backward are among
the causes of the first, violence in parturition or in the
removal of the afterbirth, of the second. Digestive and
urinary disorders are further causes. The everted va-
gina forms a simple rounded mass easily distinguished
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Fig. 39—-Rope truss for everted womb.
from the bladder by the absence of the ureters, and from
the womb by that of the two divisions or horns, and in the
case of ruminants bythe cotyledons. 'reatment is simple:
Adjust the slope of the stall, making the hinder part the
higher ; obviate costiveness, diarrhcea or any other source
of irritation; and adjust a rope truss as follows: Take
two ropes, each more than double the length of the ani-
mal, bend each double and intertwist them at this bend so
as to circumscribe an oval opening a little larger than that
of the vulva; this having been adjusted to this orifice the
two upper ends are carried around the rump, crossed over
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each other repeatedly in their passage along the back and
finally tied to a collar previously placed around the neck ;
the lower ends are carried down between the thighs, one
on each side of the udder, and forward on the sides of the
abdomen and chest to be fixed to the collar. It may be
made as tight as seems necessary and will tighten with
every effort at straining so that eversion becomes impos-
sible. It may be made more secure by attaching the ropes
to a surcingle as well. This truss must of course be re-
moved when true labor-pains come on.
INFLAMMATION OF THE WOMB.
Causes. Lacerations, bruises and other injuries in par-
turition or in removal of the afterbirth, exposure to cold
or wet after parturition, retained afterbirth, etc.
Symptoms. 'Two or three days after parturition a shiv-
ering fit, colicky pains, looking at abdomen, plaintive cries,
twisting of the tail, shifting of the hind feet, tenderness of
loins and abdomen, arching of the loins, vulva red and
swollen, frequent straining with foetid discharge, the hand
introduced into the womb finds both its neck and body
dilated with fluid contents, the belly becomes tense and
swollen, there is grinding of the teeth, insatiable thirst
and loss of power over the limbs. The pulse and respira-
tion are accelerated and the temperature of the body
raised. It may end in poisoning of the blood with pus or
absorbed putrid matters, or in gangrene, or if recovery en-
sues it may be perfected in two or three weeks. Peritoni-
tis and enteritis frequently coexist and are equally fatal
at this period.
Treatment. Wash out the womb, as in leucorrhea, with
chlorine water or a solution of chloride of lime, perman-
ganate of potassa or carbolic acid, adding a solution of
eum Arabic, glycerine and laudanum to render it more
soothing. Give an active purgative (in the cow sulphate
of soda 1 lb.) and follow this up by tincture of aconite four —
times a day, and nitrate of potassa and chlorate of potassa
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once daily. A blister should be applied to the right flank
(mustard and oil of turpentine in cow or sow, mustard
alone for other animals). In case of prostration, weak
pulse, stupor, etc., a free use of wine, quinine, camphor
and general stimulants must be made, with antiseptics
(chlorate of potassa, carbolic acid, sulpho-carbolates or
bichromate of potassa).
PARTURITION-FEVER IN COWS. MILK-FEVER. PARTURIENT
APOPLEXY.
Causes. Plethora, costiveness and the susceptibility at-
tendant on parturition. It attacks mainly heavy milkers,
animals in full flesh that have been well fed just before
and after calving, and have been delivered easily with
little loss of blood or nervous expenditure. It is most
frequent in the hot season when the grass is most luxuri-
ant and nutritive, but may occur at any season in the best
class of cows.
Symptoms. Dullness, languor, uneasy movements of
the hind limbs, a full, bounding pulse, red eyes, hot head
and horns; soon the cow becomes weak on its limbs, un-
able to rise, lays the head back on the flank or dashes it
on the ground, breaking the horns if the surface is hard,
and struggles convulsively with its limbs. The surface
may now be bedewed with perspiration, the eyes red,
fixed or rolling convulsively, the pupils dilated, the heat
of the head still greater and the pulse quicker and weaker.
Sensation is completely lost, the skin may be pricked at
any point without the slightest response and the eyeball
touched without causing winking. Neither dung nor urine
is passed, the intestines and bladder being also the seat
of paralysis or torpor.
In one form of the disease the heat of the head, delir-
ium and violence may be almost entirely wanting, the
prominent symptoms being the fever, accelerated pulse
and breathing, elevated temperature, loss of power over
the limbs, paralysis of sensation, inappetence, torpor of
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bowels and bladder. Both forms are exceedingly fatal,
almost all attacked within two days after calving perish-
ing, and a large proportion of those taken ill during the
first week.
Prevention. Spare diet (starvation in the plethoric) for
a week before and after calving, an active purgative (Hp-
som salts) to act as soon after calving as possible, plenty
of fresh, cool air, milking, if necessary, before calving and
thrice daily after. In the full flush of grass it is needful
to keep plethoric parturient subjects in-doors, upon dry
hay with plenty of salt and water, or on a very bare past-
ure. Hven if attacked a week after calving they usually
recover. :
Treatment. Tf the animal is seen before it goes down,
bleed four or six quarts from the jugular, but never after
the pulse has lost its fullness and hardness; apply ice-
cold water, bags of ice or a solution of an ounce each of
nitre and sal ammoniac in a quart of water to the head
round the base of the horns, give a powerful purgative,
(2 Ibs. Epsom salts, 4 oz. carbonate of ammonia, 4 dr.
nux vomica,) apply friction to the limbs, draw the milk off
at frequent intervals and repeat the ammonia and nux
vomica every four hours. The nux vomica may be re-
placed by strychnia, 1 grain with 2 or three drops of vin-
egar in a teaspoonful of water and injected under the skin
twice with four hours interval, or ergot of rye may be used
instead. The fever may often be materially reduced by
enveloping the whole body in a sheet wrung out of cold
water, and covering up with one or several dry ones ac-
cording to the season.
In the second or torpid form of the disorder there is
often no call for cold applications to the head, while pur-
gatives and nux vomica are especially demanded.
CHAPTER XII.
DISEASES OF THE MAMM (UDDER) AND
TEATS.
Bloody-milk. Blue or viscid milk. Congestion and inflammation of the
mammary glands, Garget, Mammitis. Impervious teat. Sore teats, Scabs,
Warts. Simple and cancerous tumors of the glands.
BLOODY-MILK.
Causes. Blows on the udder or commencing inflamma-
tion from any other cause; heat or rut; a sudden acces-
sion of rich food, causing local congestion with increased
flow of milk; the consumption of acrid plants (ranunculus,
hydropiper, resinous shoots, etc.,) and the conditions which
give rise to red-water. The milk may have a red sedi-
ment from feeding madder, logwood and other agents.
Treatment. If from congested glands, a saline laxative
followed by nitre, restricted diet and bathing with cold
water. If from acrid plants, withhold them, give a laxa-
tive to clear away any yet retained in the stomach and
follow up with small doses of nitre and acetate of lead.
If from partial congestion, with a somewhat nodular state
of the gland and but little heat or tenderness, rub daily
with compound tincture of iodine mixed with three times
its bulk of water. Milk carefully and gently.
BLUE OR VISCID MILK.
Due to cryptogams in this liquid. Remove from the
vicinity of decomposing animal matter, withhold food or
water containing vegetable germs and administer, daily,
bisulphite of soda (2 drs., cow).
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CONGESTION AND INFLAMMATION OF THE MAMMARY GLANDS.
GARGET. MAMMITIS.
Causes. Blows on the gland, lying on a cold or sharp
stone, sores on the teats, leaving the milk unduly long in
the bag (hefting), standing in a current of cold air, expos-
ure in cold showers or inclement weather, rich milk-mak-
ing food too suddenly supplied, indigestion, or indeed any
derangement of the general health is liable to produce this
disease in an animal in full milk. Ewes often lose their
bags or their lives from sudden weaning of their lambs,
or cows from neglect in milking. Some aliments, like
cotton seeds, are dangerous.
Symptoms. 'There may be simple warm, hot, tense
(caked) bag, or there may be a circumscribed nodular
mass in the centre of the bag. In severer cases there is
lameness on the affected side, a red, hot, tense painful
gland, with no secretion or only a bloody clotted mass.
These cases come on with violent shivering, high temper-
ature, strong rapid pulse and quickened breathing, dry
nose, costiveness and suppression of urine. They may
end in abscess, induration or gangrene, or a perfect re-
covery may ensue.
Treatment. In mild cases with no fever and little pain,
rub well with camphorated spirits or weak iodine oint-
ment or with plenty of elbow-grease. Muilk thrice a day and
rub for a considerable time on each occasion. If unequal
to active rubbing put a good hungry calf to the udder.
In the severe cases, if seen in the shivering fit, give a
strong cordial (ginger, pepper, whisky, brandy, gin or ale
in several quarts of warm water) and envelop from head
to tail in a thick rug wrung out of water as nearly boiling
as possible, covering all with several dry blankets and
binding firmly to the body; give copious warm water in-
jections and bring if possible into a sweat. When this
has lasted half an hour uncover gradually, rub dry and
cover with a light dry wrapping.
If the disease has advanced further and there is already
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active inflammation in the gland, foment continuously
with warm water or support in a poultice, cutting holes
_ for the teats, adding a little belladonna to relieve the pain.
Give an active purge (salts) and follow up with aconite
and nitre. Draw off the milk frequently, using a milking
tube if the act is very painful. If the discharge smells
Fig. 40.
Fig. 40—Milking Tube.
sour inject a weak solution of carbonate of soda and per-
manganate of potassa (5 grains of each to 1 oz. of water).
If the gland becomes hard and indurated, rub with iodine
ointment or mercurial oimtment, not both. Ji matter
forms, open with the knife. If gangrene ensues, use lo-
tions of carbolic acid or chloride of lime. Many sheep
do well with a coating of tar on the gland. In the ad-
vanced stages nourish well and give tonics (sulphate of
iron, gentian, columba).
IMPERVIOUS TEAT.
From concretions from the milk, which are freely moy-
able in the teat and up into the gland. From polypus in
the teat hanging by a band from the mucous membrane
and hence movable only in narrow limits. From thicken-
ing of the mucous membrane and contraction of the walls
of the duct to absolute closure. From the formation of a
membrane across the duct of the teat. From closure of
the external orifice of the teat effected in the healing of a
sore.
Treatment. Concretions may be extracted by manipu-
lation or with a grooved director, the teat having been
first relaxed in a warm solution of belladonna. Polypi
are removed by making a free incision through the teat,
twisting off the tumor, accurately sewing up the wound
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and milking for some time with a tube. The obliteration
of the duct by contraction of its walls or by a membra-
nous growth is to be met by a bistwort caché (a knife one
Fig. 41.
Fig. 41—Bistuori Caché.
line in breadth hidden in a groove of a sharp-pointed
handle, but which can be pressed out of its case so as to
cut to any extent desired) and a silver or gutta-percha
teat tube to be kept tied in the newly made channel until
it heals. It is well to leave these surgical operations un-
til the milk is dried up. A simple instrument is in use
by dairymen, consisting of a steel probe flattened out to
two lines at one extremity and with finely sharpened
point.
SORE TEATS. SCABS. WARTS.
Sores, chaps and scabs on the teats are to be treated
by soothing applications. One ounce each of spermaceti
and almond-oil melted together will often suffice. Or 5
grains each of balsam of Tolu or Peru may be added.
Or a solution of 5 grains of sugar of lead or chloral-hy-
drate and $ oz. each of glycerine and water. Butno plan
will succeed without gentle milking, with dry teats, espe-
cially in winter, or in bad cases without the use of a milk-
ing tube. Warts are to be removed by the knife, scissors
and caustic.
Simple and Malignant Tumors of the mammary glands
are met with in all species of domestic quadrupeds and
demand removal with the knife.
CHAPTER XIIL.
DISEASES OF THE EYES.
Trichiasis. Torn eyelids. Superficial inflammation of the eye. Simple
ophthalmia. Conjunctivitis. Parasites on the eyes. Specks or films on the
eye. Ulcers of the transparent cornea. Tumors of the transparent cornea.
Enzootic ophthalmia in cattle and sheep. Internal ophthalmia. Inflamma-
tion of the deep structures of the eyeball. Iritis. Choroiditis. Retinitis.-
Recurring ophthalmia. Periodic ophthalmia. Moon-blindness. Cataract.
Palsy of the nerve of sight. Amaurosis. Glass eyes. Glaucoma. Cancer.
Staphyloma. Worms in the eye.
TRICHIASIS.
Turning in of the eyelashes ; a common cause of inflam-
mation. Snip off the offending hair with scissors.
TORN EYELIDS.
Should be accurately brought together and held by col-
lodion, which is to be laid on with a brush, layer after
layer, until strong enough to hold safely. If this is not at
hand bring together with a quilled suture—the stitches,
with carbolated thread or catgut, being tied round two
quills lying on the respective flaps, so as to prevent puck-
ering of the edges and to secure even healing. If the lips
are brought into accurate apposition and stitches placed
closely together, the quills may be discarded. 'To prevent
rubbing of the healing and itching eye, turn the animal
round in the stall and tie short to the two posts so that
the head cannot reach either. Feed from a bag hung in
front and cut open half way down to admit the nose.
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SUPERFICIAL INFLAMMATION OF THE EYE. SIMPLE
OPHTHALMIA. CONJUNCTIVITIS.
Causes. Blows with whips, etc., hay-seed, chaff, dust,
lime, thorns, etc., in the eye ; standing in a current of cold
air; irritant emanations from dung and urine; obstruction
of the lachrymal duct with swelling at the inner angle of
the eye and hardened mucus in the orifice of the duct as
seen in the floor of the chamber of the nose ; in horse and
ox, the presence of a worm—/illaria lachrymalis—inside the
eyelids ; and in pigs of the measle bladder -worm—cysticer -
cus cellulosa—in the fat around the eye.
Symptoms. Red, sore, watery eyes, with or without
fever according to the severity of the attack, soon followed
by a bluish or white film or opacity extending no deeper
than the surface of the transparent part of the eyeball.
The swelling of the eyelids may extend to the hollow above
the eye, filling it up. There is no suffering or winking
when brought into a bright light, nor any undue contrac-
tion of the pupil as compared with healthy eyes. If for-
eign bodies are present they will be detected by exami-
nation.
Treatment. Hay-seed, chaff, etc., may be removed with
a pair of small forceps, with the point of a lead pencil, or
with the head of a pin covered with a soft handkerchief.
Lime and sand may be similarly removed or washed out
with a fine syringe. Thorns may be picked out with a
needle, the animal having been first thrown and the eye
fixed with the fingers or by putting the patient under the
influence of ether or chloroform. Or if not too deep they
will slough out of their own accord in a day or two. The
patient must be protected from cold or any other apparent
cause of illness, should take a dose of physic, and have
the affected eye covered with a cloth constantly wet with
a solution of 1 dr. sugar of lead or sulphate of zinc, 10 grains
morphia and 1 pint water. It is often best to use it tepid
but if used cold it should be maintained so.
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WHITE SPECKS AND CLOUDINESS OF THE EYE. —
These are the results of inflammation and if confined to
the transparent outer coat of the eye may usually be re-
moved by touching them daily with a feather dipped in a
solution of 3 grs. nitrate of silver in an ounce of distilled
water. Such an application should never be made while
the part is still inflamed and the eyelids swollen and red,
as it will then be painful and injurious. It will usually
fail to remove the speck when that consists in a thick
cicatrix following an ulcer, or when red vessels are seen
running across it.
ULCERS OF THE TRANSPARENT CORNEA.
These also follow inflammation and are to be recognized
by the visible breaks or abrasions in the surface layers of
the transparent coat of the eye. Apply the same agent as
for specks but of double or treble the strength, and improve
the general health by a liberal diet and a course of tonics
(sulphate of iron, nux vomica, cinchona).
TUMORS OF THE TRANSPARENT CORNEA.
These, if not of a cancerous nature, nor connected with
the vascular colored curtain which encircles the pupil
(the iris), may be removed with the knife or scissors, the
part touched with a stick of nitrate of silver, and a lotion
like that used for simple ophthalmia applied on a cloth.
ENZOOTIC OPHTHALMIA IN CATTLE AND SHEEP.
This affection attacks one or several herds or flocks ina
locality, at any season and without apparent cause, ex-
cepting proximity. The symptoms are those of simple
ophthalmia, but of a severe type, with much fever and
complete clouding of the eye from exudation into the
whole thickness of the transparent cornea, followed by
ulceration, and sometimes perforation of this membrane,
loss of the humors of the eye, and permanent blindness.
Treatment. Separate the sound from the diseased and
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from the pastures or buildings where the malady has ap- -
peared. Give the affected strong purgatives (salts) fol-
lowed. by diuretics (nitre), place in a dark, quiet, dry
building, and keep a cloth over the eye saturated with a
solution of a drachm each of nitrate of silver and carbolic
acid and 10 gers. of morphia to a quart of distilled water.
Blisters may be applied to the cheeks or behind the ears
(Spanish flies 2 drs., lard 3? oz., for cattle; twice the
amount of lard for sheep; rub well in). The resulting
ulcers may be treated in the ordinary way.
INTERNAL OPHTHALMIA. INFLAMMATION OF THE DEEP STRUCT-
URES OF THE EYEBALL. IRITIS. CHOROIDITIS. RETINITIS.
Causes. Severe blows or other forms of local irritation ;
extremes of darkness and light; exposure to a draught of
cold, air, to a storm; various constitutional disturbances,
especially those of the digestive organs.
Symptoms. Like those of superficial ophthalmia, but
with more fever, constitutional disturbance, accelerated
pulse, loss of appetite, increased heat of body, and above
all with retraction of the eye into its socket, pro-
trusion of the haw from its inner angle over its surface,
closure of the lids and contraction of the pupil when
brought into the light, and the presence of a turbid liquid
behind the transparent cornea, with white floating flakes,
and a yellowish or whitish deposit at the bottom of the
chamber. The brilliant reflection of the iris or curtain
is also largely impaired. As the disease advances a white
speck or cloud appears in the lens, behind the pupil and
iris.
Treatment. Place in a dark building with pure, dry
air, purge (cow, salts; horse, aloes; dog, castor-oil,) and
follow up with febrifuges (nitre, digitalis ; in dogs or pigs
tartar emetic); apply alternately by means of a rag over
the eye a lotion of 20 grs. acetate of lead, 20 drops extract
of belladonna and 1 quart water, and one of 20 grains
sulphate of zinc, 20 drops of tincture of (physostigma)
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Calabar bean, and 1 qt. water, changing twice daily ; blis-
ter the face or neck as for enzootic ophthalmia.
RECURRING OPHTHALMIA. PERIODIC OPHTHALMIA.
MOON-BLINDNESS.
Attacks solipeds only.
Causes. Hereditary predisposition ; breeding in damp,
cloudy, foggy or marshy localities ; keeping in damp, close,
ill-conditioned stables; the irritation about the head at-
tendant on teething; cloggmg the digestive organs by
feeding wheat or maize without salt or sulphate of soda;
the presence of worms in the intestines ; whatever lowers
the general health, and the general causes of iritis.
Symptoms. Like those of internal ophthalmia with, in
many cases, increased tension and hardness of the eyeball,
and its deeper retraction into the orbit. The main differ-
ence is in the liability to recur, at intervals of three weeks,
a month or more, if the exciting causes have not been
removed, until the subject is left blind. In the intervals
between the attacks the transparent coat of the eye retains
a hazy bluish cloudiness around its border, the iris is
wanting in its normal lustre, the anterior chamber has
often a slight deposit at its lower part, and the upper eye-
lid is bent at an unnatural angle about one-third of its
length from the inner angle. After two or three attacks
a cataract remains.
Prevention. Avoid, for breeding purposes, all horses
belonging to an affected family; all localities that are
damp, foggy, cloudy or relaxing; as well as ill-appointed
stables. Maintain good health and condition by sound
feeding, watering, housing, grooming and exercise. When
threatened remove to a drier and more bracing climate.
Treatment. As for iritis. Some cases, like rheumatism,
are benefited by colchicum and the free use of alkalies
(carbonates or acetates of potassa or soda). Those that
present increased tension and hardness of the eyeball
should be early treated by iridectomy which can, however,
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only be undertaken by the surgeon. All cases should
have a course of tonics (oxide of iron, nux vomica, ginger)
as soon as the violence of the fever has abated, and should
be submitted to a regimen calculated to improve their
condition so as to ward off a new attack. Recovery from
a particular attack may be expected in from 6 to 10 days,
and this contributes to sustain the reputation of such ri-
diculous resorts as knocking out the wolf teeth, and such
injurious ones as cutting out the haw (hooks).
CATARACT.
This is the most constant result of internal ophthalmia,
though 1t may occur from other causes, such as diabetes or
uremia. The condition is opacity of the lens, and may
be recognized as a white speck, or a white fleecy cloud
filling, in the worst cases, the whole of a widely dilated
pupil. It is best seen with the animal looking out of the
stable door, and with a dark background. A still more
satisfactory examination can be made with a lighted taper
ina dark room. Three images of the taper are reflected,
(1) from the surface of the eye (cornea), (2) from the an-
terior surface of the lens, and (3) from the posterior sur-
face of the lens. The two anterior are upright, the pos-
terior is inverted. If either of the two posterior Images
is changed into a diffuse white haze in passing over any
part of the pupil it implies an exudation into that part of
the lens—a cataract. Haziness of the large anterior im-
age is only caused by opacity of the cornea.
Treatment. Newly formed cataracts will sometimes
clear up, by absorption, under such treatment as is adopted
for inflammation, but the rile is that an opacity of the
lens once found, is permanent. In cattle and sheep the
lens may be extracted or depressed as in man, but in the
horse such an operation would be worse than useless, as
without spectacles he could never see things in their right
form or position, and would become an incorrigible shyer.
Better leave him blind. Cases not due to recurring oph-
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thalmia may be benefited in the long run by applying a drop
of phosphoraied oil (phosphorus 2 grs, almond-oil, 1 oz.,)
to the eye, daily, for several months.
PALSY OF THE NERVE OF SIGHT. AMAUROSIS. GLASS EYES.
Causes. Congestion, tumors, dropsy, or other disease
of the brain. Injury to the nerve of sight by pressure or
otherwise. Inflammation with exudation into the retina.
Excess of light. It may be symptomatic from overloaded
stomach, from bloodlessness, and sometimes from gesta-
tion.
Symptoms. Hyes unnaturally clear from wide dilatation
of the pupils. Failure of the pupils to contract when ex-
posed to light or sunshine, or to dilate in darkness. The
subjects do not wince when a feint is made to strike them
unless the hand produces a current of air. The animals
step high to avoid obstacles and have very active ears,
which are constantly exercised to make up for lack of
sight.
Treatment. If due to removable cause stop this, then
blister the cheek or behind the ear, as for ophthalmia, and
give nerve stimulants (strychnia, nitrate of silver, etc.)
Among the other affections of the eye are Glaucoma, the
true nature of which can only be ascertained with the
ophthalmoscope ; Cancer which demands the skill of the
anatomist for removal; Staphyloma or vascular tumor of
the cornea ; Worm in the eye (Filaria Oculi) which is to be
extracted by skillful puncture; etc.
CEVA ER? XS EVE
DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
General causes. Epilepsy. Falling Sickness. Chorea, St. Vitus’s Dance,
St. Guy’s Dance. Vertigo, Megrims in horses. Lock-jaw, Trismus, Teta-
nus. Convulsions, Fits. Sleepy Staggers, Coma Somnolentum. Apo-
plexy. Inflammation of the Brain, Phrenitis, Encephalitis, Cerebral Men-
ingitis. Inflammation of the spinal cord, Myelitis, Spinal Meningitis. Ep-
idemic Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, Cerebro-spinal Fever. Enzootic Myelitis
in sheep. Trembling, Hydro-rachitis. Paralysis. Loss of sensation or
voluntary motion. General Paralysis. Paraplegia, Palsy of the hind limbs.
Hemiplegia, Palsy of one lateral half of the body. Facial Paralysis. Other
local palsies. Stomach Staggers and Acute Lead Poisoning. Sun-stroke.
The frequency of these affections bears some relation
to the development and activity of the great nerve centres
and especially the brain. They are often symptomatic
of other diseases, the irritation being conveyed along the
nerves to the nerve centres so as to derange their func-
tions; at other times they have their origin in these cen-
tres themselves. Among common causes may be named:
exposure to intense heat or cold, especially with a dry
parching atmosphere; excess of light; deranged or ex-
cited circulation, as in loss of blood or plethora, obstacles
to the return of blood from the head, by the jugular veins,
or imperfect supply from thickening of the cranial bones ;
the influence of poisons, pressure, etc.; severe overexer-
tion; digestive, hepatic and urinary disorders, and para-
sites.
EPILEPSY. FALLING SICKNESS.
This is seen in dogs, cattle, horses and pigs in about
the order named. It usually exists independently of any
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observable change of brain structure. ‘Thus, in dogs it
follows distemper, or depends on teething, worms in the
stomach or intestines, or acari (pentastoma) in the nasal
sinuses. In pigs indigestible substances in the stomach
may determine it. Brown-Sequard showed how it could
be developed at will in Guinea-pigs by tickling the neck
and has even produced it in the human subject. In all
animals it may be looked on as, generally, a reflex act.
Abscesses, tumors, etc., of the brain have been found in
certain instances in horses, and the malady has super-
vened on a severe fright and chase, or a broken horn or
other injury to the head in cows. Probably in these
cases the disease of the brain has rendered it more sus-
ceptible to the impression coming from a distant part of
the body. The disease has proved hereditary in cattle.
Symptoms. Sudden loss of sensation and voluntary
movement, with convulsive contraction of the muscles of
the trunk and limbs. The patient may or may not appear
dull or stupid for some time, but the attack is always sud-
den, the victim crying, falling to the ground, stiffening all
over, with clenched jaws, frothing at the lips and fixed
red eyeballs. ‘The attack may last for one or several min-
utes, after which the muscles relax and the animal be-
comes conscious but retains considerable dullness or lan-
guor for a day or more. ‘The attacks are more or less fre-
quent according to the activity of the exciting cause.
Treatment. Remove the causes—worms or other irri-
tants in the intestinal canal or elsewhere :—in excitable
plethoric animals restrict diet and give more exercise ; in
the bloodless, feed highly and give iron and bitters; in
dyspeptic pigs give sound food and bitters (gentian, quas-
sia, camomile, boneset, serpentaria, myrrh,) with iron.
In excitable stallions castration is usually needful. During
the attack inhalations of chloroform or ether, or the in-
jection of these agents or of chloral-hydrate will serve to
cut short the attack. If dependent on irritation of some
known part of the surface, attacks may be obviated by
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cutting the nerves proceeding from this part, or better by
light firmg with an iron at a red or white heat.
CHOREA. ST. VITUS’S DANCE. 8ST. GUY'S DANCE.
Mainly seen in the dog and horse. Occurs in subjects
debilitated or worn out by disease, as in dogs by distem-
per. There is no constant structural change in the brain,
but the occurrence of the disease as a consequence of
exhausting disorders and the excess of urea, etc., in the
urine, may be taken as implying an altered state of the
blood, and of the processes of sanguification.
Symptoms. Momentary spasms of the voluntary mus-
cles, leading to jerking of one or more limbs, of the head
or of the entire body. This continues without intermission
in sleep as in waking, and, by wearing the subject out,
increases the disorder. In the horse it occurs mainly in
the hind limbs, but will also attack the fore, and tempora-
rily the muscles of the body.
Treatment. Re-establish health and vigor by abundant
nourishment, open air exercise, tonics (sulphate and car-
bonate of iron, cascarilla, quinia,) cold baths, rubbing dry
afterwards, and strychnia. Nerve sedatives (chloral-hy-
drate) may be given to check or moderate the spasms.
VERTIGO. MEGRIMS IN HORSES.
An equine disease characterized by sudden and tempo-
rary loss of sensation and voluntary motion, with trem-
bling, and it may be champing of the jaws, but without the
general spasms of epilepsy.
Causes. Brain disorders such as tumors, congestions,
effusions, etc., or modified circulation from compression
of the jugular veins, or disease of the heart. Plethora is
a frequent cause in the young.
Symptoms. The animal drawing a load, especially up-
hill, with a tight collar, driven hurriedly in extreme heat,
or in a strong glare of sunshine or snow, suddenly hangs
on the reins, slackens his pace, staggers a little perhaps,
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and if not stopped drops in harness, first, it may be,
starting to one side, or rearing up so as to fall back over
the driver. If stopped on the first sign of failing, the
attack may usually be warded off. If it has taken place,
the loosening of the harness and a few minutes rest will
generally bring the animal round, so that he can get on
his legs, but he remains nervous and excitable for several
days.
Prevention. Treatment. In plethoric young horses im-
prove the condition by restricted diet and vegular increas-
ing exercise, or turn out to grass for a time. Give an
occasional laxative and diuretic. Avoid tight or badly
fitting collars or whatever presses on the veins of the
neck. Shelter the top of the head from the direct rays of
the sun by a sunshade. Wear a wet sponge constantly
between the ears when at work. When the premonitory
symptoms appear, stop, slacken the collar, cover the eyes,
apply cold water or ice to the head and neck; blood may
even be drawn from the palate, the temporal artery or
the jugular vein. This should be followed by an active
purgative (aloes, Glauber salts,) and nerve sedatives
(chloral-hydrate, bromide of potassium). A laxative diet
must be kept up for some time or a run at grass allowed.
LOCK-JAW. TRISMUS. TETANUS.
This consists in persistent (tonic) cramps of the volun-
tary muscles. When confined to those of the face it is
trismus or lock-jaw, when general tetanus.
Causes. Wounds, especially of unyielding structures,
like the foot, the firm fibrous layers covering the limbs,
shoulder or croup, or the bones (tail). Wounds implicat-
ing large sensory nerves, or enclosing rust, gritty matters, —
or castrating clamps, or subject to chafing as between the
thighs, are occasional causes. In other cases exposure
to cold or wet or a continual dropping on some part of
the body is the cause. In still others it appears without
any obvious reason, though probably from internal lesions.
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It is remarkable that it rarely occurs until wounds are
well advanced in healing. In lambs it has been observed
in connection with overfeeding of the ewes on trefoil,
erain, etc., as well as from exposure.
Symptoms. General stiffness ; hardness of the affected
muscles ; protrusion of the haw, from the inner angle of
the eye, over the ball, becoming more marked if the
animal is excited, as by jerking up the head; in the worst
cases the head is elevated and carried stiffly, the tail
raised and trembling; the legs directed slightly outward
like four immovable posts, and in walking are lifted almost
without bending; the animal cannot lie down, or if he
gets down, rouses the spasms fatally in his struggles to
rise; the bowels are always torpid; the breathing is
excited and in bad cases stertorous; and though the
spasms never give way they occur in paroxysms, which are
easily roused by movement, the presence of strangers,
loud talking, banging of doors, rustling of straw or any
other noise or commotion. It usually proves fatal by the
cramps of the muscles of the throat (larynx) and chest.
Treatment. Secure perfect quiet in a dark box, safely
locked from curious observers; place slings beneatin the
patient so that he can stand clear of them or rest in them
at will; remove straw or other source of excitement; feed
very soft bran mashes or thick gruels, from such a level as
does not require any dropping of the head to reach thei ;
give a strong dose of purgative medicine (horse, aloes;
sheep, ox, sulphate of soda or magnesia; swine, dog,
castor-oil,) following this up by antispasmodics thrice
daily (belladonna, prussic acid, chloral-hydrate, lobelia,
tobacco, etc.,) or these may be given by injection, or
chloroform, ether or nitrite of amyle by inhalation. Ii it
does not excite the animal too much, give a steam bath,
or a thorough perspiration with hot rugs, covered with
dry ones. The bowels must be kept open by small
doses of powdered croton seeds or podophyllin mixed
with solid extract of belladonna and smeared on the back
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teeth as often as may be necessary. A bad case will
require six weeks to acquire complete ease of movement.
CONVULSIONS. FITS.
Seen most frequently in young dogs and cats during
teething and in bitches at the period of parturition or
when reduced by suckling a large litter. In dogs or pigs
they are common from indigestion or intestinal worms,
and will occur in all animals from disorders in the brain
or poisons in the circulation. The symptoms are those of
sudden agitating spasms of one or more parts of the body,
usually protrusion and redness of the eyeballs, and froth-
ing from the mouth, with complete insensibility. Tvreaf-
ment consists in removing the causes as far as ascertained ;
lance inflamed gums; expel worms or irritating matters
from stomach and bowels; correct dyspepsia by good
feeding, air, exercise, lodging, and by tonics (bitters, iron,
etc.) The convulsions may be checked by such agents as
ether or chloral-hydrate given by inhalation or injection.
SLEEPY STAGGERS. COMA SOMNOLENTUM.
A chronic disease of horses characterized by drowsiness
with impaired consciousness and voluntary movement,
without fever. It may be associated with pressure on the
brain by tumors, soft or bony, but above all by serous
effusion. Increase and decrease of the brain, and thick-
ening of its membranes are other occasional concomitants.
It appears to be at times connected with deranged blood-
forming processes, as in diseases of the right heart, lungs
and liver, or with defective elimination, as in kidney dis-
orders.
Symptoms. Sleepiness, listlessness, want of life and in-
telligence, a stupid demented look in the eye, drooping
lids, unsteadiness in the gait, perhaps only seen in turning
or backing; in worse cases the patient will twist the legs
over each other in walking straight, or will even rest the
head or haunches on manger or stall. The bowels are
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torpid. The symptoms are like those of stomach staggers
without the abdominal disorder.
The animal may recover so as to work well in winter,
while utterly useless in summer, and this state may last
for several years. A complete recovery is rare and yet it
is occasionally seen, everything depending on the struct-
ural changes existing. But even in the incurable cases
the progress may be retarded by treatment.
Treatment. In hot weather keep in a cool well-aired
place, or in the open air in the shade. Give soft laxative
diet, free access to cold water and an occasional purgative
(sulphate of soda). A course of tonics (iron, nux vomica,
gentian,) and diuretics (digitalis, iodide of potassium,
bromide of potassium,) are often useful. Blisters may be
applied to the neck or limbs if there seems to be effusion.
The correction of any existing disorder in the lungs, liver
- or kidneys, will increase the prospects of cure; when
well enough to use, such horses should wear a breast-strap
in place of a collar, and should not be averdone. They
should never be used for breeding purposes.
APOPLEXY.
Sudden loss of sensation and voluntary motion from
effusion on the brain, and associated with a turgid condi-
tion of the blood-vessels of the head and neck.
Causes. It occurs in plethoric animals during exertion,
in those suffering from softening of the brain, the result
of plugging of the vessels with fibrinous clots, of concus-
sion, congestion, etc. The symptoms are congestion of the
head, dullness, heaviness, followed by complete paralysis,
sensory and motor, loud stertorous breathing, and dilata-
tion of the pupils.
Treatment. In the early stages, before the patient is
paralyzed, apply cold water or ice to the head, bleed from
the temporal artery (just behind the eye) or the jugular
vein, keep perfectly quiet, and freely open the bowels.
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INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. PHRENITIS. ENCEPHALITIS. -
CEREBRAL MENINGITIS.
This is seen in all domestic animals but especially in
horses, oxen and sheep. Among the causes may be men-
tioned: blows on the head with concussion of the brain
or fracture of the cranial bones; plugging of the vessels
in the brain by clots formed in diseases elsewhere ; in-
fection of the blood with pus or putrid animal fluids ;
sudden changes of temperature; exposure to extreme heat
or cold; the over-exertion of plethoric animals ; alcoholic
poisoning from feeding spoiled products of distilleries ;
congestion from a tight collar, loss of jugular, or diseased
heart; sympathetic nervous disorder from indigestion ;
the growth of tumors or parasites in the brain; feeding
on ergoted grasses or smut.
Symptoms. If the brain substance alone is involved
there is usually dullness, stupor, and palsy, sensory and
motor: if the membranes covering the brain, there is
more violence, delirium, irregular movements, pawing,
stamping, champing the teeth, and partial or general con-
vulsions. In either case there is trembling, elevated
temperature, excited pulse and breathing, heat about the
upper part of the head, injected glaring eyes, rolling or
set, extreme excitability and violent trembhing even when
just roused from stupor. The patient will sometimes bore
the head against an obstacle, or rest his haunches on any
object within reach. The violence is not necessarily con-
tinuous, but usually occurs in paroxysms, leaving intervals
of stupor and comparative quiet. During the paroxysm
the subjects may cry: horses neigh, cattle bellow, sheep
bleat, pigs squeal and grunt. During the periods of
stupor the pulse and breathing are usually slow, and this
apples also to those cases in which the disease has
merged into a condition of vertigo, coma or paralysis.
Treatment. Apply ice or cold water to the head, give
injections of turpentine and oil, a strong purgative (horse,
aloes and croton; sheep, ox, Glauber salts and croton;
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pig, croton beans,) with chloral-hydrate and ergot; bleed
from the temporal artery and jugular vein, and follow up
with diuretics and sedatives (nitre, bromide of potassium).
The animal should be kept in a cool airy stall. If paral-
ysis follows, treat as for that disease.
INFLAMMATION OF THE SPINAL CORD. MYELITIS.
SPINAL MENINGITIS.
The causes are similar to those of phrenitis. The dis-
ease may show itself by paroxysms of convulsions, with
exalted temperature, increased circulation and rapid
breathing, finally merging into paralysis; or it may be
manifested at once by palsy without previous spasms, but
with coldness, and usually dryness, of the paralyzed part,
though the anterior part of the body may be bathed in
perspiration. There may be tenderness on striking the
spines in the affected region of the back, and there is
great pain and unsteadiness in any attempt at movement
even though the patient may be able to stand. There is
no redness of the urine as In azotemia.
Treatment. Apply cold water or ice to the affected
part of the spine ; cup or leech, if this can be done; purge
as in phrenitis, adding ergot of rye or chloral-hydrate. As
improvement sets in blister the back (cantharides, mus-
tard, etc.,) and give diuretics, chloral-hydrate, bromide of
potassium, ergot of rye. Care must be taken to turn the
patient often if unable to stand, giving a soft dry bed, and
to draw off the water frequently with a catheter unless it
is passed spontaneously.
- EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS. CEREBRO-SPINAL
FEVER.
Inflammation of the substance and coverings of the
brain and spinal cord in horses, sometimes prevailing
widely in stables or cities, from some cause acting gener-
ally. The true cause is unknown, though in many cases
debilitating conditions, like unwholesome food or water,
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overwork, sudden exposure to intense heat or suddenly
induced plethora will serve as immediate excitants of the
morbid process. It is peculiar to no season but has not
been recognized in Europe.
Symptoms. ‘These are varied according to the *case.
Some are seized abruptly with cramps of the voluntary
muscles, especially those of the neck and hind limbs,
which soon give place to general palsy—motor and sen-
sory. In other cases the onset is slow. There may be
trembling, dullness and lassitude for somé hours or days,
or there may be some local paralysis, like that of the
throat or lips, incapacitating the animal from swallowing
liquids, or causing profuse slavering. But sooner or later,
in all cases alike, paralysis sets in and the animal is barely
able to support itself, or, if worse, lies prostrate on his side
with limbs extended and flaccid. If the case is to prove
fatal, coma and complete stupor usually precedes death.
If recovery ensues, appetite is often preserved throughout
and restoration of the general health precedes the disap-
pearance of the palsy, sometimes by several months. The
pulse throughout is little varied being usually slow and
soft at first, and weaker and more rapid as the disease
advances. Breathing, at first little affected, becomes deep
and stertorous as coma sets in. The surface temperature
is cool and that in the rectum usually natural. The bow-
els are generally costive and the urine unchanged and
may pass involuntarily. Tenderness of the spine may
sometimes be detected by percussion and will guide to
the precise seat of local disease.
Treatment. The disease is very fatal, though varying
much in successive outbreaks. Excepting in cases of
complete paralysis and coma the patient should be placed
in slings and have what laxative food (bran mashes, roots,
etc.,) he will take. Cold lotions (nitre and sal-ammoniac)
or bags of pounded ice and bran should be applied to the
spine, and hand-rubbing and mustard or other stimulating
embrocations, to the limbs. Copious injections of warm
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water may be thrown into the rectum, containing in solu-
tion aloes or other purgatives. Opium or chloral-hydrate
may be given to relieve extreme pain or spasm, but the
agents which are especially demanded in the early stages
are bromide of potassium and ergot of rye. These may
be used as injections or, still better, subcutaneously, the
first in strong solution, the last as ergotine. When swal-
lowing is perfect they may be administered by the mouth.
When the acute symptoms have passed, stimulants (am-
monia, ether, alcoholic fluids,) and tonics (quinia, casca-
rilla, boneset, etc.,) may be given and blisters (mustard,
Spanish flies,) applied along the spine. The remaining
palsy must be treated on general principles. (See Paral-
ysis).
ENZOOTIC MYELITIS IN SHEEP. TREMBLING. HYDRO-RACHITIS.
The true cause of this affection is unknown, but it has
prevailed, especially on newly limed land which has un-
dergone a great temporary increase of fertility. In some
parts of Scotland its prevalence is circumscribed by the
windings of a river (Tweed) and without any ostensible
cause; or it is fatal on one slope (south) of a hill while
the opposite escapes; or again it prevails on the richest
table-lands. It attacks mainly lambs or sheep under 1}
years old and proves very fatal, often destroying the en-
tire offspring of the year. .
Symptoms vary somewhat. Many lambs appear para-
lyzed when dropped, either in the hind or fore extremities
or both, others are attacked a few days or weeks later.
Sometimes the head or entire body is drawn to one side
by tonic spasm, in other cases there is spasmodic move-
ment of the limbs in progression (louping-ill). There is
usually much apparent stupor and drooping ears, but the
patient is easily startled and in its efforts to escape will
tumble headlong. A nervous trembling is frequent and
there is tenderness or itching of the loins or croup.
Treatment of the lambs would be on the same general
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principles as in inflammation of the spinal cord in other
animals but will rarely pay. Prevention is to be sought
by keeping breeding ewes and young sheep from newly
limed land; by using none for breeding under two years
old, and, by close attention to food, water and shelter, to
secure good health during pregnancy.
PARALYSIS. LOSS OF SENSATION OR VOLUNTARY MOTION.
Loss of voluntary motion is known as Motor paralysis,
loss of sensation as Sensory paralysis or AN#STHESIA. Pa-
ralysis is also peripheral when it occurs from injury to the
nerves (chilling, tearing, cutting, pressure, inflammation,
degeneration, etc.,) and central when it arises from injury
to the great nerve centres, the brain and spinal cord.
Sensory and motor paralysis may exist Independently of
each other, and loss of sensation on one side of the body
may coexist with increased sensitiveness on the other.
An injury to one side of the brain usually paralyzes sen-
sation or motion on the opposite side of the body. Injury
to the lower part of one lateral half of the spinal cord,
paralyzes motion on the same side of the body behind the
lesion ; while an injury to the upper part of one lateral
half of the cord paralyzes sensation on the opposite side
behind the hurt, and in a small adjacent part of the same
side, while the rest of this side behind the lesion is ren-
dered more sensitive. Space forbids our following further
the indications furnished by the nature and seat of the
paralysis, as to the probable lesions in the central nervous
system ; this must be left for a larger work.
GENERAL PARALYSIS.
Paralysis of the face, trunk and extremities, but with-
out the implication of the muscles of respiration, may
arise from pressure on the brain, or as a reflex action from
distant organs (impacted stomach, constipation, preg-
nancy, etc.,) and may not be incompatible with life. If
from section or cutting of the spinal cord in front of the
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fifth neck-bone (broken neck, pithing,) it is promptly
_ fatal by abolishing respiration.
PARAPLEGIA. PALSY OF THE HIND LIMBS.
This is a common form of paralysis resulting from
broken back or loins, or it may be reflex from disordered
digestion, etc. (in horses, cattle, dogs). It may also occur
from tumors or parasites in the spinal cord, from bony
swellings the result of sprains, from inflammation and
softening of the cord, and from lolium temulentum (dar-
nel), and the newly ripened seeds of its allies, lolium
linicola (flax rye-grass), and lolium perenne (perennial rye-
grass). The chick vetch, millet, ergot and various blood
poisons (taurocholic acid, leucin, tyrosin, urea, etc.,) have
a similar action.
HEMIPLEGIA.
This consists in paralysis of one lateral half of the
body, to the exclusion of the other, usually as the result
of some disorder of one side of the brain or spinal cord.
Tt occurs in all animals but less frequently than paraplegia.
FACIAL PARALYSIS.
This sometimes occurs from a continuous current of
cold air striking on the side of the face, but also from
bruises behind the eye and joint of the jaws, by a badly
fitting bridle, a collar, or apparatus commonly used for
breachy horses. Cows. suffer from similar injuries from
stanchions. Finally it may result from disease of the
brain or middle ear.
Other local paralyses, such as of the ear, eyelids, lips,
tongue, larynx, tail, etc., result from corresponding causes.
Treatment for paralysis. Our first object must be to
remove the cause, whether this consist in digestive, urinary
or uterine disorder, in congestion, inflammation, or press-
ure on the brain or nerves. When a nerve is cut across,
we must wait for its reunion. When the cause is irre-
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movable the paralysis is necessarily incurable. In cases
of inflammation we must proceed as advised for inflamma-
tion of the brain or spinal cord. Then apply cold douches
and friction to the paralyzed part, followed by a blister.
Blisters may also,be applied to the neighborhood of the
nerve centre presiding over the part. In some cases the
application of the hot iron lightly is beneficial. A current
of electricity directed along the course of the nerve or
through the paralyzed muscles may be repeated daily
with the best results; or nerve stimulants (nux vomica,
strychnia, nitrate of silver, etc.,) may be given twice daily
commencing with small doses and gradually increasing
them until twitching or slight cramps of the muscles are
seen; then stop their administration for a few days, and
resume with half the former doses. Never continue when
the system is affected as shown by muscular jerking. In
some cases of local paralysis (retina, etc.,) excellent re-
sults are obtained from subcutaneous injections of strych-
nia.
STOMACH STAGGERS AND ACUTE LEAD POISONING.
These are affections commencing with functional stom-
ach and brain disorder, and leading to congestion and
inflammation of the great nerve centres, and deserve a
special notice. .
The stomach staggers of horses and cattle usually arise
from eating particular articles of food such as the different
forms of rye grass, millet, vetches, tares, etc., when ripening
and not yet cured. A: poisonous principle exists, which
in the case of the lolium temulentum has been separated
as an extract, and administered with fatal effects to horses,
cattle and dogs. It acts by paralyzing the stomach and
congesting the brain. Cattle will suffer similarly from the
very rich vegetation of spring, from the dry irritating
fibrous grass mixed with the aftermath, or from a sudden
change from soft to hard water.
Symptoms. The first effect is drowsiness, the horse
ee
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being sluggish at work, and falling asleep -while eating or
drinking, or the ox leaving his fellows and lying down
with his head on his flank, his eyelids semi-closed and
his pupils dilated. The bowels continue to move, passing
indigested matter and wind, the abdomen is full and the
seat of frequent rumbling, and the appetite is retained so
that the torpid stomach is still further over-distended.
This state of things may continue for several days, and is
followed by imperfect control over the limbs, hind or fore,
so that the subject sways unsteadily in walking, and leans
his head on the manger and his quarters on the stall,
when in the stable. Sometimes paraplegia is the first ©
sion, drowsiness being absent throughout. The drow-
siness in time gives place to restless and involuntary
actions, jerking of the head, champing of the jaws, pushing
the head against the wall, movements of the limbs, walk-
ing in a circle or straight forward regardless of obstacles,
springing or dashing violently about, convulsions, ete.
These periods of violence or delirium occur in paroxysms,
leaving intervals of comparative, though not absolute,
quiet and stupor. If not carefully secured the animals
often kill themselves during one of these paroxysms. The
pulse and breathing are slow at first, but accelerated
in the later stages.
ACUTE LEAD POISONING in cattle results from eating red
or white paint (often the refuse of paint-pots which has
lain for years in the soil), sheet lead, spent bullets, ete., or
from drinking from dishes which have held sugar of lead
or of soft water that has run through leaden pipes or
stood in leaden cisterns. The symptoms are usually indis-
tinguishable from those above described, the preliminary
dullness and drowsiness merging into active delirium, with
reckless dashing about and violent bellowing.
Treatment in all cases consists in stopping the ingestion
of the poison and carrying off from the bowels any that
still remains there. Double the usual amount of purgative
medicine must be given, with stimulants, their action
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favored by injections and the brain symptoms kept in
check by applying cold water or ice to the head, as well as
by bromide of potassium. In lead poisoning sulphate of
magnesia or soda are the appropriate purgatives, and 4
oz. sulphuric acid should also be given in two parts of
water to precipitate in an insoluble form any lead that
may still be retained. If later there is a suspicion of lead
being retained in the system give iodide of potassium.
Should paralysis persist when the active symptoms have
passed away, treat that on general principles.
SUN-STROKE.
This is especially common in horses in the hot months
and in the large cities, but is seen in cattle and sheep as
well, when exposed to the full glare of the sun. Among
the causes which co-operate in its production may be
mentioned foul, badly aired stables, tight collars or girths,
overwork in hot weather, heavy milking in cows, obesity,
poor, unwholesome food, and indeed any health-deterio-
rating condition. Horses are usually attacked while being
speeded, or at heavy draught work, in a collar, and ex-
posed to the direct and reflected rays of the sun, as in
a valley, on a hillside or in the streets of a city.
Symptoms. Sometimes without any observed premoni-
tory sign the horse will suddenly stop in harness, droop
his head, prop himself out on all four limbs, pant vio-
lently, fall, and after some convulsive movements, die in a
state of coma, marked by stertorous breathing. In other
cases the attack is slower, the horse flags in gait, responds
very imperfectly, if at all, when urged, hangs on the bit,
may perspire freely, or have a dry burning surface, and
becomes unsteady on his limbs. If still urged he falls,
but if allowed will stand with legs extended, head low
and stretched out, nostrils dilated, superficial veins
distended, eyes protruded and red, pupils contracted,
breathing rapid and wheezing or deep and stertorous, the
pulse quick and weak, and the heart-beats tumultuous.
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This is followed by prostration, a state of unconsciousness,
palsy or convulsions and death. If recovery ensues it is
followed by duliness, uncertain movements of the limbs,
drowsiness or other sign of brain disease.
Treatment. Douche the head and neck with cold water,
and make the same application to the whole body, unless
the weakness of the patient forbids this. Throw stimula-
ting injections into the rectum (ammonia, or oil of turpen-
tine and oil). If the convulsions are aggravated by the
douche use injections of chloral-hydrate instead. Apply
frictions and mustard embrocations to the limbs and the
sides of the neck, especially when unconsciousness and
coma come on. Improvement may be expected when the
pupils dilate, and above all when consciousness returns.
A failing pulse should be met with stimulants by the
mouth and rectum. To prevent sun-stroke much may be
done by keeping in vigorous health, avoiding ill-aired
stables, using breast-straps in place of collars, and wear-
ing a sun-shade and a small wet sponge on the top of the
head.
PARASITES IN THE BRAIN. See Parasites.
CHAPTER XY.
SKIN DISEASES.
Classification. General Causes and Treatment. Congestion of the skin,
Chafing, Chilling, Irritants, Sun’s Rays. Congestion with Pimples, Papules.
Inflammation with Blisters, Vesicles. Inflammation wlth Pustules. Inflam-
mation of horses’ heels, Swelled Legs, Cracked Heels, Grease, Grapes,
Scratches. Inflammation of the skin with nodular swellings, Tubercles,
Surfeit, Urticaria. Scaly skin disease, Pityriasis, Mallenders, Sallenders,
Scratches. Boils, Furuncles. Nervous irritation of the skin, Neurosis,
Prurigo. Warts. Callosities, Black-pigment Tumors. Epithelial Cancer.
Parasitic skin diseases. Common Ringworm. Tinea Tonsurans. Honey-
comb Ringworm, Favus. Diffuse Baldness, Tinea Decalvans, Parasitic
Pityriasis. Parasitic Grease. Contagious Foot-rot. Mange. Scab. Itch.
Scabies, Acariasis, Ticks. Ixodes. Warbles, Larva of the Gadfly. At-
tacks of Flies, Maggots. Sheep-tick. Melophagus Ovinus. Fleas. Lice.
Erysipelas. _Wounds—cut, punctured, bruised, torn, puisoned. Burns.
Scalds.
Skin Diseases will be considered under the following
heads :
1. Diseases due to general causes and embracing all the
grades of inflammatory action :—congestion—a red pointed
eruption (papules)—a similar eruption with minute blis-
ters (vesicles)—the formation of larger hemispherical blis-
ters (bulle)—the formation of pus in these vesicles (pust-
ules)—the formation of round nodular transient swellings
(tubercles)—the excessive production of scales or dan-
druff (squamous)—pustules with circumscribed sloughing
of the deeper layers of the skin (boils).
2. Diseases manifested by deranged sensation—Neurosis.
3. Diseased growths—warts—callosities—epithelial can-
cer, ete.
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4. Parasitic diseases,—vegetable and animal.
5. Diseases connected with a specific poison— different
forms of variola (pox)—measles—scarlatina—erysipelas
—malignant pustule, ete.
6. Wounds. Burns. Scalds.
General causes. ‘These are exceedingly varied. Many
cases are the result of simple local irritation, as chafing,
radiating heat, cold and wet, chemical and mechanical irri-
tants, or the presence on the skin of parasitic plants or
animals. A large class is due, however, to disorders of
internal organs with which the skin is in sympathy, or
that have failed to transform or throw off elements that
prove cutaneous irritants by their presence in the blood,
or when being excreted abnormally through the skin.
Disorder of the liver, stomach, bowels, kidneys and lungs,
are especially apt to act in this way. Sometimes skin
disease is a mere symptom of general ill-health.
General treatment. The first object is to discover and
remove the cause; then if the disease is of an inflamma-
tory nature and acute, soothing agents may be applied to
the irritated skin—fomentations with tepid water, oxide
of zinc powder or ointment, starch, lycopodium, spermaceti
and almond-oul, solutions of sugar of lead, sulphate of zine,
or carbolic acid, coilodion, ete. Give internally cooling lax-
atives (sulphate of soda, tartrates or citrates of soda or
potash,) and diuretics (acetate of potassa or ammonia,
carbonate of potassa or soda). In weak states tonics are
often wanted whereas in plethoric subjects depletion is
equally essential. A cool, clean, airy stable and cleanli-
ness of the skin are all-important.
li the disease is not so recent or the acute symptoms
_ have been subdued, a more stimulating class of local ap-
plications are in order: oimtments of iodine, sulphur,
mercury, nitrate of mercury, tar, oil of tar, oil of turpen-
tine, oil of cade, etc., may be used. Supersedents too
may be given internally: sulphur, antimony, arsenic, mer-
cury, Dunovan’s solution, are examples.
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CONGESTION OF THE SKIN.
Simple redness, heat and tenderness with no dark color
nor eruption. ‘This may coexist with all the different
forms of inflammatory eruption according to the degree
of irritation at different points.
It occurs: From: chafing, in the axilla, between the
thighs, in the heels or under the harness in hot weather ;
from chills after being wet, in the heels of horses and on the
teats of cows exposed to wet in winter ; from hardened mud
in the space between the hoofs in cattle, sheep and pigs;
and from the sun’s rays in white-faced or white-hmbed
animals.
Treatment. Tf the surface is only tender, wash clean,
and apply a solution of table salt, sugar of lead (4 oz. to
1 qt.) or a little camphorated spirit. If the surface is
abraded (raw) use bland powders (oxide of zine, starch,
lycopodium,) wool, collodion, glycerine 1 oz. aloes 20
ers., or, if it can be kept covered, sulphurous acid solution
and glycerine (equal parts), laxatives, diuretics or tonics
must be used according to the indications. It is all-
important to avoid further irritation. Light, well-fitting
harness must be used, and the stuffing taken out and the
part beaten down where necessary, to avoid pressure on a
sore. Zinc fittings to the top of the collar are often very
serviceable. So too, must exposure of affected heels to
damp or mud, and the wetting of teats in milking, be
carefully avoided.
CONGESTION WITH SMALL CONICAL PIMPLES. PAPULES.
In this case there is an eruption of finely-pointed pim-
ples without any watery exudation or blister. It is usually
itchy and even painful, and by reason of rubbing may go
on to exudation with great thickening of the skin, bleeding,
scabs and open sores. Horses, especially, suffer in spring
and autumn at the time of shedding the coat, the eruption
often confining itself to the neck, shoulders and hmbs.
On turning back the hair on parts which are itchy or sore,
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but that have not suffered from rubbing, the nature of the
eruption will be seen, especially if a slightly magnifying
glass be used. The affection usually gives way readily
under the use of weak alkaline washes (carbonate of soda
1 dr., water 1 pint,) or soap-suds, a restricted laxative
diet and gentle laxatives.
INFLAMMATION WITH VESICLES.
In this form of skin disease papules are crowned with
little blisters, so small and pointed as to require a mag-
nifying glass to make them out distinctly (eczema), or as
large as a small pea and rounded (herpes, bull). These
forms are common in horses and dogs, and to a less extent
in ruminants, especially in connection with disorders of
digestion. Highly stimulating food, clipping and hot
weather are particularly favorable to their development.
Boiled food, diseased potatoes, green food or any change
of diet may cause them. One form of this affection is
induced by a too extensive use of mercury to the skin.
Cattle suffer from eating the refuse of distilleries and
gardens, garbage from kitchens, etc.; sheep are attacked
alter exposure to cold rains. Old horses suffer from an
inveterate form in connection with bad food and want of
grooming and wholesome stabling. In dogs too, it be-
comes inveterate and chronic, the whole skin being de-
nuded of hair and of a bright scarlet, with the character-
istic eruption mixed with cracks, sores and scabs (red
mange). In the milder forms, dogs suffer mainly inside
the thighs or on the scrotum; horses suffer under the
harness and especially at the root of the mane and under
the saddle, but the eruption may spread over the whole
body ; cattle suffer on the limbs, especially the hind, but
not exclusively so.
The other eruptions are often mingled with the vesicles,
the hairs become bristly, and as the skin is broken by
rubbing, a bloody or straw-colored exudation concretes
in scabs and mats the hair together, while elsewhere ex-
tensive raw sores appear.
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Treatment. Give a saline or oleaginous laxative, and
follow up with acetate of potassa or other alkaline agents
in the drinking water. If there are signs of disordered
liver give small doses of podophyllin to keep the bowels
slightly relaxed; if debility, bitter tonics. A restricted
_ non-stimulating diet, (herbivora, mashes, roots, ete.; car-
nivora, bread and milk, oatmeal porridge, etc.,) pure air,
cleanliness and skin washes of carbonate of soda or
potassa containing a few drops of carbolic acid will prove
valuable. In dogs this last agent should be omitted.
In all forms of chronic and inveterate eczema the scabs
should be soaked in oil for a few hours and removed by
washing, after which more stimulating applications may
be resorted to:—ointments of sulphur, iodine, iodide
of sulphur, sulphuret of potassium, mercury, nitrate of
mercury, etc., with or without alkalies. In some cases a
few drops of oil of vitriol in a quart of water, will much
relieve the itching and pain. Im others the same end
must be sought by adding prussic acid or cyanide of
potassium in small amount, great care being taken to
prevent the patient from licking it. Internally, use su-
persedents—arsenic, with or without iodide and bromide
of potassium; or small doses of Dunovan’s solution may
be resorted to in bad cases.
INFLAMMATION WITH PUSTULES.
This differs from vesicles in this, that the elevations on
the skin have the scarfskin raised by the formation below
it of a white, purulent matter, in place of clear liquid.
The prominent forms are those with large pustules (ec-
thyma), and those with small (impetigo). The hair stands
erect, and scabs form on the surface covering the sores,
especially after rubbing. Even if not rubbed they dry up
in scabs which soon fall off.
Horses suffer mainly at the root of the mane, on the
neck, the rump, and on the lips and face, especially if
white; cattle and sheep, especially the young, are at-
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tacked on the lips and other delicate parts of the skin
(vulva, etc.,) and pigs and dogs on any part of the body.
Causes. It is often chargeable on some disorder of
digestion as the result of unwholesome food or a sudden
change of food, as from dry to green, or from one kind
of pasturage to another. In young animals (foals, calves,
lambs, kids, pigs,) it appears to be an occasional result of
heated or otherwise unwholesome milk. Vetches affected
with honey-dew have produced it in white horses or in
white spots of those of other colors; and buckwheat has
affected white sheep, pigs, goats, etc., in the same way.
Jt may, however, arise from habitual exposure to cold and
wet, local irritation, as from rubbing, etc., or from dis-
order of other internal organs. .
Treatment consists in softening the crusts with oil,
washing them off with soap-suds, and applying soothing
or gently astringent agents to the part (spermaceti and
olive-oil, benzoated oxide of zine ointment, lime-water,
sugar of lead lotions, etc.) When it attacks the root of
the mane cut off the hair, and if the pain is excessive
foment or poultice until the eruption comes to a head when
some of the above agents may be applied. When the
pustules have burst and show little tendency to healing,
this may often be hastened by touching the sores with a
pointed stick of lunar caustic, or a weak solution of this
agent (2 ers. to 1 oz. water) may be lightly painted over
the part. The internal treatment consists in the adminis-
tration of laxatives followed by bitters (gentian, quassia,
boneset, cascarilla, willow bark, etc.,) and diuretics. In
obstinate or long-standing cases the same treatment may
be followed as in chronic eczema.
INFLAMMATION OF THE HEELS IN HORSES. GREASE.
The skin in the region of the heel is so vascular and so
abundantly provided with oil-glands, and is so frequently
exposed to irritants, wet, cold, mud, filth, etc., that a special
notice of its inflammatory condition seems demanded.
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The causes are a lymphatic constitution, with a tendency to
stocking of the legs; a weak circulation, diseased heart,
liver or kidneys, with swelled legs ; washing the heels with
caustic soap; leaving them wet and muddy when put in
the stall; currents of cool air striking on the heels;
irritant fumes from accumulated dung and urine; soaking
of the heels in putrid pools in the straw-yard ; standing in
snow, or in the slush of melting snow; and besides, any
of the constitutional causes of other skin diseases. ‘Too
these might be added horse-pox, foot-mange, and an erup-
tion associated with a vegetable parasite, but we must leave
these to be considered with specific and parasitic diseases.
Symptoms. We find all grades of inflammation in the
heel: 1st, Simple swelling with dry heat, tenderness and
ereat lameness from inability to stretch the skin and
bring the heel to the ground: 2d, Transverse cracks or
chaps more or less extensive: 3d, A pinkish-white foetid
discharge from the surface with oftentimes some modera-
tion of the lameness: 4th, The eruption of pustules of
variable size: 5th, The formation of fungous growths
(grapes), over the affected surface, of a size from a pea to
a cherry, red, angry and covered with a foetid discharge.
This last form often invades the frog constituting canker.
The same occurs in sheep as the result of long continued
irritation to the skin of the coronet, and is the worst form
of non-contagious /oot-rot. 6th, A sixth form of the affec-
tion (scratches) is much more common in our light Ameri-
can horse, exposed in the deep mud of spring, and con-
sists in minute excoriations, becoming covered with thin
scabs which remain tender and troublesome for an in-
definite length of time.
Treatment. 'The prime essential is to avoid the cause,
whether exposure to filth, cold, wet, local irritants, low
condition, or disorder of some internal organ or function.
Jf the inflammation runs high a cooling laxative (Glauber
salts, aloes,) and mild diuretics (nitre, iodide of potassium,)
should be given, unless contra-indicated by low condition
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or debility. Tonics (iodide of iron) should be conjoined
with gentle diuretics for weak patients, and the food should
be cooling (in part green or roots). Gentle pressure from
a bandage evenly applied from the foot up, is beneficial.
In simple inflammation, without eruption or discharge,
apply cloths wet with a weak solution of sugar of lead or
other astringent, and in winter cover these with a dry
bandage to prevent freezing. Or a poultice may be ap-
pled with a little sugar of lead lotion on the surface.
When cracks have appeared, apply a similar lotion with
the addition of a few drops of carbolic acid or grains of
chloral-hydrate (enough to give it an odor) ; or sulphurous
acid solution, water and glycerine in equal proportions,
covering promptly and perfectly with a bandage; or,
glycerine and aloes, etc.
In case of discharge or pustules the lotion may be
made with chloride of zinc or lime in place of sugar of
lead, or finely powdered charcoal may be sprinkled over
the poultice ; carbolic acid or chloral will be equally in
place.
When fungous growths appear more active measures
are demanded. Strong carbolic acid may be applied to
them individually, or better, pledgets of tow, saturated
with tincture of the muriate of iron, should be bound on
by a tight bandage extending from the hoof up. Or the
erowths may be snipped off with scissors and the muriate
of iron applied; or they may be individually strangled by
a stout thread tied round their necks, or cut off with the
sharp edge of a red-hot blacksmith’s shovel, a cool one
being held beneath to protect the skin. Then apply any
one of the antiseptics above mentioned.
Scratches are among the most obstinate forms of the
affection because not severe enough to demand the seclu-
sion of the horse from wet, mud and snow. In feeding
the subjects of this affection avoid all buckwheat, maize or
other heating agents, and if it proves obstinate resort to
the various internal remedies advised for chronic eczema.
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Locally use benzoated oxide of zinc; glycerine and aloes ;
camphorated spirit and chleral; the same with a few
drops of tincture of chloride of iron, etc. When irritation
subsides and the scales drop off, leaving a healthy-looking
surface, smear with a bland oimtment (spermaceti and
almond-oil).
CUTANEOUS INFLAMMATION WITH NODULAR SWELLINGS.
TUBERCULES.
The most remarkable example of this is what is known
to horsemen as surfeit, by veterinarians as urticaria. It
occurs in spring and autumn in horses, cattle and pigs,
and is at once connected with moulting and sudden changes
of food or of weather. With some fever, there appear on
different parts of the body swellings varying in size from
a pea to a walnut, and often running together so as to
form extensive patches, which will close the nostrils, eye-
lids or lips, and put a stop to feeding or even threaten
suffocation. There is little pain or tenderness and the
swellings are very transient, appearing and disappearing
on different parts at short intervals.
Treatment consists in clearing out the bowels by a pur-
gative (horse, aloes; ox, salts; pig, oil or jalap,) and fol-
lowing this up with bitters (gentian, etc.,) and diuretics.
(nitre, carbonates of soda and potassa).
SCALY SKIN AFFECTIONS. PITYIIASIS.
These are exemplified in the scurfy, scaly affections
which appear in the bend of the knee (mallenders) and
hock (sallenders) and on the lower parts of the limbs, by
scratches, and by a scaly exfoliation and shedding of hair
of the mane and face of old horses, and of different parts
of the body in cattle. Some of these like mallenders, sal-
lenders and scratches nay commence as papules or vesicles,
while the scaly affection of the face is often connected
with a vegetable growth, but this form is distinguished by
extreme tenacity, and a gradual progress from its point of
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origin ; that which is dependent on constitutional causes
is more diffused. They depend on the general causes of
skin diseases ;—heating, unsuitable diet, sudden changes,
imperfect grooming, heats of summer, disorders of the
lungs, bowels, liver or kidneys, on oxalic acid in the blood,
and some constitutional causes. Beside the scurfiness
and loss of hair, the itching is often so extreme as to ren-
der the subject almost unmanageable, and useless for
work. |
Treatment. A moderate laxative diet consisting in part
of roots (carrots and turnips,) the free administration of
alkalies (carbonate of potassa or soda, etc.,) and if still
inveterate, a prolonged course of arsenic will be requisite.
Locally use mercurial ointment or, if extensive, sulphur or
tar ointment, ete.
BOILS. FURUNCLES.
These are too well known to need description. They
consist In circumscribed inflammation of the deep layers
of the skin, with pustule and sloughing of a limited part of
the fibrous tissue. They are not uncommon on the legs of
horses, and if a number appear in succession are a source
of great trouble.
Treatment. While still a simple inflamed nodule they
may often be arrested by incising crucially with a sharp
knife and applying cold water bandages. Or apply a
poultice or thick wet cloth to bring quickly to a head. If
the resulting sore is indolent or unhealthy touch with ni-
trate of silver. The free internal use of alkalies (carbonate
of soda) sometimes checks their production.
NERVOUS IRRITATION OF THE SKIN. NEUROSIS. PRURIGO.
This is often seen in horses that are overfed on grain
(especially the more stimulating varieties) and hay, and
that have close, unwholesome stables. Hot weather is
also a cause. Though occasionally associated with pim-
ples or even vesicles, the irritation is found to be equally
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severe on parts devoid of eruption, yet the integument
tends to become thickened and rigid as the disease per-
sists. The irritation may be slight or so severe that the
harness cannot be kept on. It must not be confounded
with rubbing of the tail from pin-worms.
Treatment. Purge, put on restricted diet, with roots,
wash the skin with soap and water, and apply water
slightly soured with oil of vitriol. If this, with carbonate
of soda internally, fails to cure, a long course of arsenic is
demanded.
WARTS. CALLOSITIES. CANCER. BLACK PIGMENT TUMORS.
Warts are to be removed by scissors and the part burned
with some caustic (lunar caustic if near the eye, butter of
antimony, blue-stone, chloride of zinc, ete., elsewhere).
Or they may be destroyed by tying a thread tightly round
the neck of each, or by the use of the hot iron.
CALLOSITIES are common under the saddle (sitfasts). A
circumscribed portion of skin, the seat of a former chafe,
has become thickened and indurated to almost horny con-
sistency. The skin around the edges is inflamed, raw
and angry. It can usually be loosened by a poultice, so
as to be easily removed by a sharp knife, after which it is
to be treated as a common sore.
Buack Piamenr Tumors (Melanosis) are exceedingly
common in gray and white horses, attacking the black
parts of the skin (anus, vulva, udder, sheath, lips, eyelids,
etc.,) and though sometimes cancerous are often quite
harmless, and should always be removed with-the knife.
EPITHELIAL CANCER is not common in the lower animals
but is seen in the lips of horses and cats. Here again the
knife is the best remedy.
PARASITIC DISEASES OF THE SKIN.
COMMON RINGWORM. TINEA TONSURANS.
This is common in horses, cattle, dogs and cats, as well
&S in man, and is readily transmitted from one to the
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other. It is especially common in winter or spring, and
occurs as round bald spots on the face or elsewhere,
covered with white scales, and surrounded by a ring of
bristly, broken hairs, or split hairs with scabs around the
roots and some eruption on the skin. Soon this ring of
broken hairs is shed and a wider bristly ring is formed.
Among the naked eye characters the breaking and splitting
of hairs in the ring, and the perfect baldness of the central
Fig. 42—Hairs with spores of Trichophyton Tonsurans. From the horse.
— MEGNIN.
part are the most significant. Chloroform bleaches the
affected hairs, while the sound ones are unaffected. The
microscopic appearances are the presence in the hairs and
hair follicles of a vegetable parasite (trichophyton tonsu-
Vans.)
Treatment. Shave the hairs from the affected part, or
better, pull them out with a pair of pincers and paint with
tincture of iodine, or a solution of corrosive sublimate (40
grains to 1 pt. of water), or of bisulphite of soda (4 oz. to
1 pt.)
- HONEY-COMB RINGWORM. FAYUS.
Common in cattle, dogs, cats, rabbits and chickens, as well
as in children (scald-head). It shows the same general ap-
pearance of baldness advancing from a centre, which is
described above, but a cup-shaped yellowish scab results
which has obtained for it the name. The parasite (Acho-
rion Schinleini) appears to be but another form of the
fungus of rmgworm affected by its conditions of growth
and especially by the weak or unhealthy condition of the
host. Treat as for common ringworm.
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Fig. 48.
Fig. 43—Hair with spores of Achorion Schénleini, from the horse.—MEGNIN.
DIFFUSE BALDNESS (TINEA DECALVANS). PARASITIC PITYRIASIS.
Two other forms are seen in the horse, one attacking
any part of the body, and recognized by the agglutination
of five or six hairs together in a white crust, and the other
attacking the heads of old horses, and characterized mainly
by the scurfy product. Both are exceedingly inveterate,
though not attended with excessive itching, and demand
the persistent use of tincture of iodine or corrosive sub-
limate lotions in order to effect a cure.
Fig. 44.
Fig. 44—Microsporon Adouinii from Parasitic Pityriasis in the horse.—
MEGNIN.
In all those cases the harness, brushes, combs and wood-
work must be washed with a solution of caustic potassa or
soda, and then wet with iodine ointment or a solution of
corrosive sublimate, otherwise all treatment may be fruit-
less. Horse blankets should be boiled for a length of
time.
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PARASITIC GREASE. CONTAGIOUS FOOT-ROT IN SHEEP.
In inflammation of the horse’s heel, attended with
fungus-like growths (grapes), a vegetable growth is often
present and seems to be a main cause of the disease.
The contagious foot-rot in sheep presents the same appear-
ance of the skin, and is presumably due to a similar para-
site. With or without an abrasion, the matter from a
diseased foot produces in the healthy one swelling, excori-
ation and fungous growths round the top of the hoof, as
well as an excessive growth, softening and loss of cohesion
of the horny elements below.
- ig. 45 —Oidium Batracosis from parasitic grease. —MEGNIN.
Treatment consists in laying bare the diseased surface,
‘and applying active caustics and parasiticides. Pare the
horn to the quick and apply tow soaked in tincture of
muriate of iron, butter of antimony, solution of blue-stone
or nitrate of silver, bind up firmly, and repeat the dressing
daily. All overgrown horn must be carefully removed,
and means taken to prevent irritation from dried mud, ete.
MANGE. SCAB. ITCH. SCABIES. ACARIASIS.
These names among others are given to diseases of the
skin caused by acari. Of parasitic acari there are three
principal species: Sarcoptes, which burrow in canals in the
seariskin and are difficult to find and eradicate, and derma-
tophagus and dermatocoptis which live on the surface or
among the scabs and are more easily disposed of. Another
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Fig. 46—Sarcoptes Equi. Female. Fig. 47 —Dermatophagus Equi. Female.
Fig. 48—Dermatocoptes Equi. Female. Fig. 49—Dermanyssus. (Hen
louse.) Fig. 507—Gamasus of Fodder. Fig. 5t—Demodex.
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species—demodex—inhabits the sebaceous glands of the
skin in sheep and dog and causes much irritation with
acne-like eruption. Among acari occasionally parasitic
may be mentioned : the dermanyssus (misnamed hen louse),
the gamasus of musty hay, and the leptus (misnamed jigger
in the Western States), all excepting the last living on the
surface and easily discovered. Lastly a tyroglyph is acci-
dentally parasitic on all domestic animals.
Of the sarcoptes there is one species lives on the horse,
which will temporarily inhabit the skin of man; a second
is peculiar to the goat; a third is common to dogs and
swine, a fourth to cats and rabbits and a fifth to chickens
horses and foxes.
One species of dermatophaqus lives on the heels and legs
of horses, another on the tail, neck, etc., of cattle, and a
third on the pastern, limbs, and less frequently the trunk,
of sheep.
Of dermatocoptes there is also a particular species for
each of these animals—horse, ox and sheep—though usu-
ally confounded with each other. ‘These are the most
common causes of mange and from their non-burrowing
habits are most easily disposed of.
Accessory causes. ‘Though the reception of the acarus
is the one essential cause of mange, yet others conduce to
its speedy diffusion—as poor condition, filth and warm
seasons. Some acari, like the dermatophagi, may even
seem to suspend operations in winter and cause little or
no trouble until the following spring.
Symptoms. We must state these in general terms,
throwing the whole class into one group. There is intense
uncontrollable itching, aggravated by hot weather or build-
ings, and by perspiration. If the affected part is scratched
the animal shows his gratification by moving his body as
if rubbing, and especially (in horses) by a nibbling move-
ment of the lips. In sheep the wool is torn off, and white
tufts hang on the dark surface of the fleece. The skin is
thickened and rendered rigid by exudation into its sub-
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stance, as well as by the accumulation of crusts on the
surface. In fine skins, like that of the sheep, there is a
distinct papular eruption, and in all there are excoriations
and even deep sores and ulcers from the incessant and
desperate rubbing. The bare patches are less absolutely
so than in ringworm, for hairs still adhere at intervals
and though the hairs may be broken they show less brit-
tleness or tendency to split up. But the one reliable sign
is the presence of the acarus, which may often be rec-
ognized by the naked eye when a little of the scurf is
placed on a plate of glass and closely watched. The
scabs will be seen to move and a little observation will
enable one to detect the almost invisible insect. A low
magnifying power is a great help. ‘To find the sarcoptes
it may be necessary to expose the skin to the warm rays
of the sun, to detach a crust and tie it for twelve hours on
the skin of the arm, when the acarus will be found in the
centre of a pale red papule and may be removed with a
needle.
The dermanyssus may not be found on the skin unless
the subject is examined in the stable at night. They are
large and easily detected when bright crimson, from being
gorged with blood. There is always the suspicious prox-
imity of chickens or their dung, the latter swarming with
gray acari.
The demodex living in the hair follicles of dogs, causes
loss of hair and prominent red nodules (acne) while the
sebaceous matter squeezed from the follicles contain spec-
imens of the acarus.
The sarcoptes of chickens attacks the comb, wattles and
feet, causing great irritation.
Treatment is local, though nourishing food, cool clear
air, clean dry buildings, aul the avoidance of crowding or
Bee are important auxiliaries. By soap-suds, pre-
ceded if necessary by oil, break up and remove the scabs
and crusts; then apply thor Scape with a brush, oil of tar
1 ox, sgtiale: oil 20 oz., or $ lb. each of tar and sulphur,
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and | lb. each of soap and alcohol. For sheep with heavy
_ fleeces baths are very efficient. The following example
will neither stain the wool nor materially endanger the
sheep. Tobacco 16 lbs., oil of tar 3 pints, soda ash 20
Ibs., soft soap 4 lbs., water 50 gallons: Boil the tobacco
and dissolve the other agents in a few gallons of boiling
water, then add water to make up to fifty gallons, retain-
ing a temperature of about 70° Fah. This will suffice for
50 sheep. Hach sheep is kept in the bath three minutes,
two men meanwhile breaking up the scabs and working
the liquid into all parts of the skin. When taken out he
- is laid on a sloping drainer and the liquid squeezed out of
the wool and allowed to flow back into the bath. A second
Fig. 52.
Fig. 52—Ox-Tick.—VERRILL.
and even a third bath may be necessary in inveterate
cases. For newly shorn sheep oily applications are better,
being less liable to be washed off by rains. One part of
oil of tar to 40 parts castor-oil or lard will usually sutftice,
but sulphur may be added if desired. The common use
of mineral poisons, and especially the compounds of mer-
cury for sheep dips, must be strongly deprecated.
In all cases an essential part of the treatment is to dress
with similar agents, or with a strong solution of caustic
potassa, all harness, brushes, combs and wood-work, and
to subject blankets to prolonged boiling. In pastures,
dress every rubbing post, tree, stump, stone, or wooden
fence, or change the field.
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TICKS. IXODES.
These are common on stock in some parts of the coun-
try and may be picked off or dressings applied as for
acari.
LARVA OF GADFLY. WARBLES.
These may be found in little rounded tumors the size
of hazel-nuts, on the backs of cattle in winter and spring,
each tumor having a hole in the centre through which the
erub may be seen or extracted. A second species attacks
sheep as well as cattle, while a number of others in dif-
ferent countries, but especially in the tropics, live in the
skin of man and a variety of animals. Where gadflies
Fig. 53. Fig. 54.
Fig. 53—(Eéstrus Bovis.
Gadfly of ox.—CLARK. Fig. 54—Larva of same. Warble.
abound, animals are greatly terrified and injured by their
attacks. The best treatment is to examine all cattle in
spring and squeeze out and destroy the grubs found in
their backs, enlarging the openings with a knife when
necessary. This cuts off the supply of flies for the coming
year and a universal practice of this might be expected to
kill them out.
ATTACKS OF FLIES (DIPTERA). MAGGOTS.
The attacks of flies are often very troublesome and even
fatal to stock. Many agents such as oil, infusions of wal-
nut leaves, rue or wormwood, are used to drive them off
but with only partial success. To protect the heads of
sheep a mixture of camphor, turpentine and asafcetida is
very effectual.
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Sheep suffer much in some localities from the larva of
the blowfly, laid on any damp or dirty part of the skin, as
on the tails and thighs when scouring. In such neighbor-
hoods the existence during summer or autumn of a dark
wet spot on the skin, of a white tuft of wool, or of wriggling
of the tail will demand immediate attention.
Treatment. Clip off the wool and filth, pick off all
maggots and apply oil of turpentine or of tar 5 oz.,
camphor 1 dr., asafcetida $ dr.; dilute carbolic acid or
kerosene may be used in the absence of anything else.
To prevent the attacks use the sheep dip advised for scab,
or cut off the dirty wool and apply carbolic acid 1 part,
water 50 parts.
SHEEP-TICK. HIPPOBOSCA (MELOPHAGUS) OVINA.
This is a dipterous insect degraded by the non-develop-
ment of its wings. Itis best met by the dips advised for
Fig. 55.
Fig. 55—Sheep-Tick with egg. Magnified.
scab. It is especially important to dip lambs, after affected
ewes have been shorn, as the insects migrate to the young
where they find more wool to shelter them.
FLEAS.
These, like the hippoboscide, are wingless diptera. "We
have a variety each for the dog, cat, hen and dove, and in
tropical America the pulex penetrans or Chigoe which
burrows under the skin and there lays its eggs to be
hatched out in the flesh. Persian Insect powder is one of
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the best agents to dust over the animals as well as over
carpets, rugs, ete., on which they have lain; or wash with
the yolks . egos al a teaspoonful of oil a turpentine to
each egg; ora ae of an ounce of oil of anise-seed and
ten ounces olive-oil may be rubbed over the body and
washed off with soap six hours later. Sprinkle the soil
Fig. 56.
Fig. 56—Cat Flea. Enlarged.—VERRILL.
where the animals roll with quicklime, carbolic acid, or
petroleum ; deluge kennels and roosts with boiling water
and afterward paint the cracks with oil of turpentine ; dip
mats or rugs in boiling water, and litter the buildings with
fresh pine shavings.
LICE.
These are degraded wingless hemipterous insects.
There are two kinds: Oblood-suckers (hematopinus), with
narrow head and long trunk-like sucking tube; and bird-
lice (trichodectes), ith very large, broad Heder and no
sucking tube, but biting jaws.
Of the blood-suckers there is one species each for :—
horse and ass; horse and ox; ox; goat; swine, and dog
and ferret. |
Of bird-lice there is a species each for :—horse and ass ;
ox and ass; sheep; goat; dog; cat; duck, and goose;
two for the peacock; three for the turkey; four for the
pigeon; and five for the hen.
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Fig. 57—Hzematopinus of Horse and Ass. Fig. 58—Hzematopinus of Ox.
Fig. 59——Hezematopinus of Calf. Fig. 60—Hzematopinus of Dog. Fig.
61—Heematopinus of Pig. Fig. 62—Trichodectes of Horse.
They may be safely treated by sprinkling with powdered
wood ashes or by rubbing with sulphur ointment or whale-
oil, with water saturated with petroleum or kerosene, or
with a solution of sulphuret of potassium or lime (4 oz. to
1 gall. water). Clean the buildings, clothes, etc., as for
fleas.
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Fig. 63—Trichodectes of Ox. Fig. 64—Trichodectes of Sheep. Fig. 65—
Trichodectes of Dog. Fig. 66—Goniodes Stylifer of the Turkey.
ERYSIPELAS.
A specific, diffuse, spreading inflammation of the skin,
often involving the loose connective tissue beneath, and
sometimes the internal organs, associated with fever, an
unhealthy state of the blood, and usually a poison by which
it may be communicated to another animal with broken
skin. :
Causes. An unhealthy (septic, etc.,) condition of the
atmosphere, the presence of impurities in the blood, from
foul air or food, plethora, exhausting work, debilitating
diseases, disorders of the liver, kidneys or other blood-
forming or purifying organ, or the absorption of putrid
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matters from a sore or other diseased surface. Sheep,
horses and swine fed on green or even harvested buck-
wheat are liable, and all animals kept in close, filthy,
unhealthy places or in the vicinity of accumulations of
decomposing animal and vegetable matters. Sudden sup-
pression of an habitual discharge, heating food, and new
grain and forage are occasional causes. But probably all
of these do little more than lay the system open to the
attack which would otherwise be escaped. More direct or
exciting causes we find in local irritation,—as exposure to
a hot sun (newly-shorn sheep), chafing inside the elbows
or thighs, the presence of rancid fats on the skin, injuries
from the harness, bites of insects, etc., burns, scalds,
wounds, dropsies of the limbs, and above all the keeping
of patients with open sores where there is excessive ema-
nation from decomposing organic (especially animal)
matter, or the dressing of erysipelatous and healthy sores
with the same sponges.
Symptoms. There is usually a preliminary fever, loss of
spirit and appetite, heat of the skin, accelerated pulse and
breathing, constipation, high-colored, scanty urine, and
elevation of the temperature of the rectum, soon followed
by a diffuse, hot, tender, shining, itching swelling, spread-
ing from a wound or other seat of irritation or even on a
previously healthy skin. In white skins the redness is
very deep, the shade being darker according to the gravity
of the case, and disappearing under the pressure of the
finger only to reappear quickly on its removal. The
swelling will be greater, according as the inflammation
involves the skin only, extends to the connective tissue
beneath (phlegmonous), or is complicated by a liquid exu-
dation (cedematous). It shows a tendency to wide and
rapid diffusion over the skin, its advancing border being
always, abruptly elevated from the healthy integument,
though at points where it is recovering it may subside
gradually and insensibly to the healthy surface. The
inflamed skin is tense and smooth, but pits on pressure,
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and often presents vesicles on its surface. After a few
days the swelling and redness may diminish, and the
blisters dry up into scales, which drop off, leaving a dark,
red, tender surface ; or cracks may form with a sluggish,
unhealthy action and little tendency to heal. When mat-
ter forms it is liable to be diffused without any limiting
membrane as in an ordinary abscess, and to lead to exten-
sive death and sloughing of the skin and subjacent
structures, or to absorption of pus and its deposit in
internal organs, with fatal results.
In horses it is seen mainly about the head, chest, belly
and hind limbs, and is especially liable to prove cedema-
tous. It is distinguished from Anthrax and Purpura
Hemorrhagica by the presence of the wound or sore, by
the low inflammatory character of the swelling, by the
ereater tendency to suppuration, and the implication
of the adjacent lymphatic glands.
Cattle suffer especially about the head but also on other
parts of the body. Sheep suffer mainly about the head,
but often and more severely about the udder, belly and
inner side of the thigh or arm, and it may be elsewhere.
Swine are mainly attacked about the head and neck,
and less frequently on the inner side of the limbs, the
chest or belly.
Treatment. Open the bowels freely (horse, ox and
sheep, Glauber salts ; swine and dog, castor-oil,) following
it up by frequent and full doses of tincture of muriate of
iron and a nourishing, easily digested diet. In case of
much weakness or with very low fever use stimulants, al-
coholic or ammoniacal as they may be demanded, but
never if they cause dryness of skin and rise of temperature.
Diuretics may be used in cedematous cases, but in 4
guarded manner because of the depression. To the af-
fected skin apply warm fomentations, by preference, with
weak solutions of tincture of muriate of iron, hyposulphite
of soda or sulphate of zinc. Sometimes dry applications
have a good effect,—as a mixture of sulphate of zine and
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starch. Iodized collodion too is often of service. If mat-
ter has actually formed it should be let out with the lancet,
the wound being dressed with a solution of muriate of
iron to prevent unhealthy action.
WOUNDS.
These are divided into simple clean cuts (incised), stabs,
pricks and punctures (punctured), bruised or crushed (con-
tused) and torn (lacerated). Clean cuts often heal readily
when the edges are brought together accurately and re-
tained so. But such union by adhesion is most probable
in strong, healthy, well-conditioned animals, and least so
in the weak, poor and diseased. In /owls it is almost in-
variable, in swine nearly equally so, mm dogs, cattle and
sheep there is still a strong tendency to adhesion, while in
horses all wounds readily form matter and primary adhe-
sion throughout is exceptional. Bleeding should be
checked, (see wounds of arteries, etc.,) clots washed off
with a stream of tepid water, foreign objects carefully re-
moved with fingers or forceps and the wound closed with
as little exposure as possible. The edges may be stitched
together by means of a curved flat needle with silk or
linen, well waxed or steeped in a weak solution of carbolic
acid, or better, with catgut which has been steeped for a
month in oi! and carbolic acid, or with silver or other
metallic wire. It may be closed by a continuous stitch
as in sewing a glove, when adhesion is to be expected, or
by separate stitches a half to three-fourths of an inch
apart when primary union is more doubtful. To secure
uniform approximation of the edges or pressure on the
different parts, the stitches may be passed round a quill
placed on each lip of the wound (quilled suture). Or pins
may be passed through the lips at suitable distances and
a few fibres of tow twisted around each like the figure 8.
Small wounds may have their edges shaved and layer
after layer of collodion applied until the covering is strong
enough to hold them together. The use of a weak solution
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of carbolic acid or other antiseptic agent will further favor
adhesion if it can be applied without causing movement
of the lips of the wound.
If the wound fails to heal by prompt adhesion, granula-
tions form, covered with a thin layer of pus, and these
eradually fill up the sore, leaving a scar. Or if the lips
of the wound are still kept together the granulations may
adhere (secondary adhesion), or finally small sores will
scab over and healing take place beneath.
Granulating wounds may be washed daily with a stream
of tepid water, after the three first days, and may be
covered with a simple dressing of tow saturated in water
or oil to which a little carbolic acid has been added.
When necessarily left bare the same liquids may still be
applied. When the granulations become soft, flabby and
projecting (proud flesh), touch lightly with a stick of lunar
caustic, and expose to dry air. When they become indo-
lent and when healing and contraction come to a stand-still,
apply gentle stimulants—tincture of myrrh and aloes, ete.
When the deeper parts of the lips of the wound do not
come in contact, pads may be applied on each side to keep
them in apposition. Granulating wounds usually heal by
contraction from their edges, and if this is arrested by ad-
hesion to bones and other firm parts beneath, further
healing may be impossible. In this and other cases of
tardy healing, the implanting of thin slices of scarfskin,
just cut with a sharp instrument from other parts of the
integument, and their retention with strips of sticking
plaster, will usually hasten the process.
Punctured wounds often heal promptly, and especially in
animals prone to primary adhesion, when cleansed, kept
at rest, with warm dressings and pressure on their deeper
parts. If inflammation occurs in the deeper parts with
suppuration, it may be necessary to enlarge the opening
to allow of a ready discharge, and to let it heal outward
by granulation.
Bruised and torn wounds may be treated like punctured
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ones, and in birds, pigs and dogs, and in the more vascular
parts of the larger animals, will often heal by adhesion.
Should they fail to do so, they ought to be stitched together,
not too closely, and allowed to heal by granulation. Parts
that are absolutely dead may be removed, but none that
continue to show signs of life, and above all, no skin that
can possibly be saved.
Poisoned wounds should be promptly cauterized (See
Canine madness, Malignant anthrax, Lymphangitis). Sub-
cutaneous wounds, in which the deeper parts are injured
with little or no breach of the skin, mostly heal satisfac-
torily, and the main object should be to secure a suitable
position of the part, lest distortion should occur from
undue contraction or extension of the structures in healing.
For wounds that have resulted in fistula, see poll evil, fist-
ulous withers and quittor. Whenever a foreign body is
lodged in a wound it should be removed because of its
tendency to cause fistula, especially in horses.
BURNS AND SCALDS.
The gravity of these will vary much according to their
extent and depth. The treatment of the more severe
is rarely desirable in the lower animals, because of the
danger of fatal results from internal complications; or of
ruinous distortions from the contraction of cicatrices.
- For slight burns apply cold water, Goulard water, water
perceptibly sweetened with carbolic acid or flavored with
oil of turpentine, keeping this up until the violent pain
and inflammation have subsided. Success attends the
exclusion of air by covering the part thickly with flour or
cotton wool until irritation is past. The same end is
gained by bathing the burn with oil of turpentine and
afterward covering with resin ointment. When large
blisters have formed, puncture with a needle and smooth
down the cuticle on the skin by gentle pressure, following
up with the soothing measures already recommended.
When the skin is still more deeply burned and sloughing
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is inevitable, the stimulating applications (oil of turpen-
tine with resin ointment, equal parts of linseed-oil and
lime-water, etc.,) are still more demanded. As the sloughs
separate, the detached parts should be cut off with as little
irritation as possible, and when the severe irritation sub-
sides soothing applications will be in order. Finally, the
healing process will be greatly hastened by ingrafting thin
slices of scarfskin as advised under wounds.
CHAPTER XVI.
GENERAL DISEASES OF BONES, JOINTS AND
MUSCLES.
Lameness, symptoms, at rest and in exercise. Diseases of Bones. In-
flammation. Ostitis. Periostitis. Softening. Enlargement. Suppura-
tion. Ulceration. Scrofulous (Tubercular) Disease of Bone. Softening
and Rarefaction of Bone. Rickets. Osteo Malacia. Softening in Cows.
Softening in Horses. Big-head. Fractures. Diseases of Joints. Inflam-
mation. Arthritis. Synovitis. Ulceration. Bony Deposit. Anchylosis.
Open Joint. Inflammation of Bursz and Sheaths of Tendons. Diseases
of Muscles. Ruptures. Inflammation. Fatty Degeneration. Rupture
and Section of Tendons. Sprains. Thickening. Shortening. Calcifica-
tion.
LAMENESS.
As the three following chapters will embrace most of the
different causes of lameness, the more prominent mani-
festations of this failing may be here noticed.
Standing. The patient should be approached quietly
and when you are certain he is free from ail exciting
causes. If resting on all four limbs, the pastern of the
lame one will usually be more upright than the others.
One fore foot advanced eight or ten inches in front of the
other suggests some tenderness of the heel or the struct-
ures in the posterior region of the lower part of the limb.
Bending of the knee and fetlock and resting of the foot on
the toe, without any advance in front of the other, usually
implies disease of the shoulder or elbow. The advance
of both fore feet, the rest being taken on the heels, and
the hind Lmbs brought well forward under the body,
should direct attention to the front of the feet. Resting
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of one foot more frequently and for longer periods than
its fellow is suspicious.
Tying. An inclination to lie down, and remain so, is to
be similarly regarded. If the animal remains down per-
sistently, we may infer great suffering, fractures or much
weakness.
In Exercise. Lameness may be shown in the walk, but
better in the slow, easy trot, the animal being led in hand
with about three feet of free rein and without noise or
other cause of excitement. Some horses manifest a bridle
lameness from the mere leading, but if the leader goes
first on the left side and then on the right, the drooping
of the head will correspond first to the one foot and then
to the other, showing it to be only a feint. In all cases
of lameness in a single limb the foot is rested on the
ground with less weight and is raised as quickly as possi-
ble. There is therefore not only the visible halting on
that limb, but a lower sound made by striking the ground
and thus the ear comes to assist the eye in detecting the
ailing member. If one fore limb is affected, the head and
anterior part of the body are elevated when its foot comes
to the ground, but drop firmly when the sound foot is
planted. A depression of the opposite hind limb accom-
panying the elevation of the head, when the failing fore
limb comes to the ground, must not lead to the suspicion
of lameness behind.
In single lameness behind, the gait resembles that seen
in lameness before, the haunch on the diseased side being
raised when the foot is planted and allowed to droop
thereafter until the opposite foot reaches the ground. In
some, the elevation is the prominent feature, in others the
depression, but in all the rising and falling are greater
than in the opposite quarter.
With lameness in both fore limbs the step is short, the
stroke on the ground weak, the rest of each foot on the ~
ground shortened, the shoulders are carried upright and
stiff, the head is raised, the loins are arched, the croup
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droops, and the hind limbs are brought unnaturally for-
_ ward beneath the belly. rales
Lameness in both hind limbs is marked by the back-
ward position of the fore feet, the short rest and weak
impulse of the hind on the ground, the extension and
drooping of the head, and above all the difficulty of back-
ing. .
Lameness in the two limbs on the same side determines
a gait approaching the amble or rack, with the firm plant-
ing of the opposite members. Lameness of one fore and
the opposite hind produces a simple exaggeration of the
gait caused by disease in one of these hmbs. When the
cause of lameness exists in more than one limb it is diffi-
cult to make the animal keep the trot.
Tn all cases it is well to have the animal driven or
ridden so as to heat him, and then keep him perfectly
still for half an hour to cool, before completing the exam-
ination, as many lamenesses will disappear when the
subject is warmed by exercise. 7
DISEASES OF BONES.
These may be divided into :—inflammation of the bone
itself (ostitzs), or of its fibrous covering (periostitis), which
may result in softening, consolidation or induration, enlarge-
ment, bony growths and tumors, abscess, ulceration and death
(necrosis). Beside these there are the degenerations and
diseases of bone such as deficiency or excess of earthy salts,
with binding or brittleness of the bones; tubercle, cancer,
and sarcomatous, cartilaginous, cystic, vascular or other tu-
mors, etc.
But the great mass of bone diseases in the domestic
animals consist in inflammation and its results, to which,
accordingly, the following remarks will be mainly con-
fined. Every bone is permeated even in its densest parts
by an abundant network of minute blood-vessels, and
studded throughout with microscopic soft elements (nu-
clei) which appropriate the suitable materials from the
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blood and build them up into the hard bony texture. If
these nuclei are injured their powers of assimilation are
modified, their numbers are multiplied, and they become
surrounded by an excess of semi-fluid matter (lymph)
with, it may be, one of the following results :—1st, the
softening of the bone and the removal of its earthy salts,
until it can be cut with a knife or gives way under the
weight of the animal:—2d, the transformation of the
lymph into pus on the surface of the bone or in its interior,
where it may remain imprisoned for an indefinite length
of time :—38d, the hardening of a limited amount of lymph
in the cells or inter-spaces of the bone, compressing the
blood-vessels, limiting the supply of blood and favoring
ulceration or even death of the part :—4th, from the above
cause, or from a perversion of the plastic or assimilating
powers of the nuclei, ulceration sets in on the surface
or in the interior of the bone, and the bony matter is
steadily removed to be replaced by an irregular excavation
or a cavity filled by a bloody ichor :—5th, the swelling
may completely close the blood-vessels of the bone or the
inflammation may cause coagulation of the blood within
them throughout a considerable portion, which accord-
ingly dies, and has to be removed as a foreign body :—
6th, short of those extreme conditions and more com-
monly, the exudation leads to a partial softening and
general swelling of the inflamed part, and this becoming
consolidated and hardened there is a material increase of
size :—7th, and by far the most frequently, the inflamma-
tion affects the superficial layer of bone and its investing
fibrous membrane, and the exudation, taking place be-
tween these, is soon consolidated into a layer or tumor of
bone on the surface :—8th, any exudation on the outer
side of the fibrous covering is also lable to be calcified
and to form hard tumors, but these do not acquire the
true bony texture like that formed between the membrane
and the bone.
General Symptoms. In the sightest forms of inflamma-
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tion there may be little or no lameness, though usually
there is a halt on the affected limb when trotted on a hard
surface. The affected portion of the bone is tender to
pressure or percussion, and is the seat of swelling at first
soft and yielding, but later hard and resistant. In the
severer forms the bone itself is softened, extensive exuda-
tion of lymph takes place around it, and the investing soft
structures become the seat of violent inflammation and
swelling; lameness is then extreme. In the slighter and
chronic cases there is no disturbance of the general health,
but in the more acute and severe, intense and even fatal
iritative fever may come on.
When suppuration takes place in the interior of a bone
the matter may remain imprisoned indefinitely, the spot
being marked by a general increase of the bone, and lame-
ness persists. If suppuration takes place between the
bone and its fibrous covering the danger is even greater,
for the matter is liable to separate the bone and mem-
brane, producing further inflammation or ulceration, or
even death of the bone—the supply of blood being cut off.
The superficial abscess is to be detected by its fluctuation
beneath the fingers, as in abscess of soft parts.
Ulceration may result from pressure of matter, etc., or
from exposure to the air. Tf without external opening, it is
not easily recognized, but there is lameness and tenderness,
with little alteration of the surface of the bone, or the
presence of slight bony deposits alternating, it may be,
with soft open spaces. If the ulcerated bone is open to
the air, it is found to be softened in texture, breaking down
readily under the pressure of a probe, and in the centre of
the ulcerous cavity rounded bony deposits are felt, as
evidence of an effort at repair. The discharge is then
ichorous, and abounds in gritty particles and earthy salts.
If this discharge has commenced to decompose it smells
badly.
Death of bone is always associated with an open sore
discharging a very foetid ichorous fluid, with gritty parti-
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cles and the power of rapidly blackening silver. If probed
the hard bone is felt without any fibrous covering, and
if seen this is black, yellowish, white, or of some allied
shade and without any of the pink aspect of healthy bone.
General Treatment of Inflammation in Bone. Unless in
the very mildest cases, the first object is to check the in-
flammation by soothing measures.
TOOTH-LIKE TUMORS UNDER THE EAR.
These are manifested by a running sore, just above and
behind the joint between the upper and the lower jaw,
with a hard object to be felt at the bottom. Their ex-
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traction can only be undertaken by one intimately ac-
quainted with the parts.
POLL EVIL.
This is of two kinds: Ist, A simple abscess, the result of a
blow or other local injury, and which is only serious because
of the strong enveloping fibrous membranes that imprison
the matter beneath them; and 2d, disease of the joimt
between the head and the first bone of the neck, or be-
tween the first two bones. The first, if unrelieved, will
usually give rise to the second, since the surface of the
bones becomes the seat of disease which gradually extends
to and involves the joint. The milder form may be dis-
tinguished by the superficial position of the swelling and
fluctuation, and by the comparative freedom and ease
with which the head is moved, whereas in the other the
head is carried very stiffly and cannot be moved on the
neck without extreme suffering.
Treatment. When seen early with only a slight inflam-
matory swelling behind the poll and no fluctuation, purge
and keep a cooling lotion (tincture of arnica 2 oz., 1odide
of potassium 1 dr., vinegar 1 qt., camomile infusion 1 qt.,)
constantly appled to the part, the patient at rest, and the
head tied up to the rack. If matter has formed and fluctu-
ation is felt, however deep, it must be opened at once.
Select the part where fluctuation is most marked and
plunge a knife into the cavity. Then with a bent probe
find the lowest point of the sac and cut down upon this,
making a large opening from which the matter may flow
as it forms. A tape should be tied in the wound and the
sac syringed out daily with a stimulating wash (chloride
of zine $ dr., water 1 qt.,) until from the disappearance of
swelling and matter it becomes evident that the sac is ob-
literated, when the tape may be cut, pulled half way out
and left hanging from the lower wound until the upper is
closed, when it may be completely withdrawn. When
new sacs of matter appear these must be promptly opened
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and treated in the same way. A change of dressing is
sometimes needed as one appears to be losing its effect
(tincture of muriate of iron 1 oz., water 1 quart). In ob-
stinate cases it 1s sometimes needful to lay the sacs open
by an extensive incision and treat like an ordinary wound.
But all these operations are only safe in the hands of
those who are intimately acquainted with the structure of
the part. |
In case of disease of the bone it may be felt bare at the
bottom of the sac, by probing, and may be scraped to re-
move any dead or diseased part, and expose sound bone
which may undergo the healing process.
If the joint is implicated the case may be deemed des-
perate, as it is usually only a question of time for the
spinal cord to become involved.
FISTULOUS WITHERS.
This is analogous to the milder form of poll evil, differing
only in its site, which is on the spines above the shoulders.
It is to be treated in the same way, by free incision, the
formation of a dependent orifice and injections. I the
Spinous processes are diseased they should be removed
with bone forceps until a healthy surface is exposed.
FRACTURED PROCESSES OF THE NECK BONES.
This may arise from muscular effort but more commonly
results from jamming between two heavy bodies. If on
one side only, the head is drawn to a side; and in any case
the detached piece of bone may be felt among the muscles
and grating even may be produced by moving it. The
only treatment is to keep the head in one position until
the detached parts have become adherent, which they
usually do with a visible swelling. If abscess or fistula
forms the detached bone must be extracted.
TRANSVERSE FRACTURE OF THE BONES OF THE NECK
These occur from pitching on the head, and are fatal
from the sudden cessation of breathing.
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FRACTURE OF THE SPINOUS PROCESSES OF BACK AND LOINS.
This is detected by the mobility, with or without grating,
of the spines implicated. If comminuted the splinters
should be extracted ; if simple, replace them and retain by
a pitch plaster on each side, or with a saddle having a
high tree and plenty of padding at the sides to support
the fractured bone.
SPRAINS OF THE BACK OR LOINS,
_ here is inability to back, above all when mounted, or
to turn quickly in a circle, tenderness at a given spot on
pinching along the back, drooping when mounted, and
difficulty in urination from the pain attendant on curving
the back. It has come on suddenly after slipping, falling,
bearing a heavy weight, etc., and is independent of fever.
Jt is distinguished from partial paraplegia by the per-
fect sensation in the hind parts, by the absence of
any change in their temperature as compared with the
rest of the body, and by the retention of perfect sensation
and motion in the tail.
Treatment. Place in a narrow stall in which the patient
cannot turn his body or even his neck; apply slings to
prevent any attempt at lymg down; foment with warm
water if there is much pain; when that has subsided,
blister. It is all-important to give laxative diet, and to
_ correct, any costiveness or other impairment of the general
health.
TRANSVERSE FRACTURE OF BACK OR LOINS.
This occurs suddenly from an evident cause, such as
slipping, over-weighting, a wrong step, or struggling when
east for an operation. If displacement has not taken
place there is an exaggerated manifestation of the same
symptoms as in sprained back, but if the bones are dis-
placed, or when the resulting inflammation and swelling
have produced pressure on the spinal cord, there is para-
plegia, coldness of the body behind the seat of fracture
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though that in front may be hot and perspiring; the tail
is implicated in the palsy, and there is much tenderness
and often a manifest depression of the seat of fracture.
Treatment. The slighter forms are treated like sprained
loins. In the more severe, the subject should be de-
stroyed at once. If after recovery in other respects a
certain lack of power remains, it must be treated like
— paraplegia.
LACERATION OF THE MUSCLES BENEATH THE LOINS.
This occurs from the hind limbs slipping unexpectedly
backward or from their going back into a ditch which the
animal is attempting to leap. The manifestations resem-
ble those of broken back, as there are difficulty in rising,
and an imperfect control over the hind limbs, which are
dragged awkwardly forward and not advanced so far as in
health. But there is no indication of paralysis and no
alteration of temperature or sensibility in the hind parts,
the functions of the tail are perfect, and examination
through the rectum detects a soft doughy swelling, with
heat and tenderness beneath the loins. Treatment is by °
slings and fomentations to the loins. If the horse is un-
able to get up, raise him by block and tackle and he will
easily stand. Several weeks are wanted for repair of the
injury and the patient should have a run at grass before
returning to work.
FRACTURE OF THE CROUP (SACRUM).
Seen in cattle and less frequently in horses, and caused
by riding each other or by the fall of heavy bodies on the
part. There is a manifest depression at one point of the —
medium line of the croup, and the tail usually hangs
paralyzed. Hxamination with the oiled hand in the rec-
tum at once detects the displacement, which is always
downward. With one hand in the rectum pressing on the
depressed bone and the other pulling the tail, the bones
may be replaced and should be held so by a stiff leather
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sheath well padded, fixed round the root of the tail and
connected in front with a surcingle and collar. Recovery
of power over the tail may be looked for.
INJURIES TO THE BONES OF THE TAIL.
Fracture and dislocation are easily reduced and the
bones maintained in proper place by a bandage. If the
bones are crushed, or the seat of caries or necrosis, the
member should be amputated above the injury. Docking
scissors are best for this purpose, but the organ may be
laid across a beam and chopped off with one blow of a
hatchet. The hair should first be removed from the part
to be cut, and what is above this part tied up to the rump.
After the amputation the hair is drawn down over the
stump and firmly tied, as close to it as possible, so as to
compress the arteries and check bleeding. In cattle and
other animals, with short hair on the tails, bleeding may
be prevented by a flat tape tied round the tail above the
stump for eight hours, or the arteries may be tied, or
finally, they may be seared with a hot iron, the part hav-
ing been first dusted with powdered resin.
FRACTURED RIBS.
These usually result from falls, blows and other forms
of mechanical injury, and may be easily detected by a
depression or soft part at the seat of fracture. If simple,
they will be readily repaired under the influence of rest
and girths to restrict the movements of the chest. But if
comminuted, abscesses may form or necrosis ensue, de-
manding the removal of the dead or morbid matters. If
the fractured ends have been driven in so far as to pene-
trate the lung a still more serious complication is met.
The air rushes from the tubes of the lacerated lung into
the pleural cavity during each inspiration, and as it can-
not find its way back, the whole of that half of the chest
is soon filled with air and the lung compressed into a
smal] solid mass attached to the lower end of the wind-
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pipe, and opposite the base of the heart. The lesion
is thus lable to prove fatal, though if arrested early by the
exudation of lymph in the wound of the lung, the air may
be absorbed and recovery may ensue.
WOUNDS PENETRATING THE CHEST.
Whether connected with broken ribs or only involving
the muscles between the ribs, these lead to the accumula-
tion of air in the chest and collapse of the lung, as when
a broken rib has torn the lung tissue. The edges of the
wound, having been driven in, act like a valve allowing the
entrance of air during the expansion of the chest, but for-
bidding its escape when that cavity collapses. It is far
more serious than the accumulation of air in the chest from
a torn lung, as decomposition and irritation are set up by
the presence of germs which are filtered out in passing
through the lungs. Unless the wound is small and can
be closed early, it is necessarily fatal.
SHOULDER LAMENESS.
The lameness which accompanies injuries to the shoul-
der may be so characteristic as to be recognized at a
glance. The specific features are, the carrying of the head
low; the dragging of the toe on the ground in advancing
the limb; the swinging of the foot outward so as to
describe the are of a circle in bringing it forward ; and, if
severe enough, the standing with joints partly bent, the
heel raised and the toe resting on the ground, but without
any advance of the lame foot in front of the other.
TUMORS ON THE SHOULDER.
Often preceded by chafing or galling, these consist of
inflammation and suppuration beneath the large flat
muscle which covers the front of the shoulder (levator
humeri). The tissues around the matter become thickened
and indurated to an extraordinary extent, so that it is
often impossible to detect any fluctuation, yet it may be
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assumed in all cases of considerable swelling that matter
really exists, and the recovery will not ensue until that has
been evacuated. In slight cases only will a little nut-like
induration form without matter.
Treatment. In cases in which injury has just been sus-
tained, suspend work or drive in a breast strap, and treat
as for chafing. If a tumor forms, first subdue the more
active inflammation by a dose of physic and a wet rug
slung over the shoulder for several days ; then open it with
a knife, or preferably, draw off the liquid once or twice, at
intervals of two or three days, with a cannula and trocar,
and then, when the sac has been reduced to a small size,
lay it freely open with the knife and treat like an ordinary
wound. In very large tumors it may be necessary to push
the cannula in as far as four or even six-inches before the
matter is reached, but the operator must persevere, direct-
ing it always toward the exact centre of the swelling. The
small solid tumors are to be cut out with the knife, a
straight vertical incision being made through the skin,
directly over the mass, which is then dissected out, and
the skin brought together with stitches and treated like
a simple wound.
SPRAIN OF THE CORACO-RADIAL TENDON. SHOULDER SPRAIN.
This is a sprain of the large tendon which passes over
the point of the shoulder (the most prominent part directly
in front), and in bad cases the double pulley over which it
plays in front of the upper end of the arm bone is involved
in inflammation and ulceration.
Symptoms. Pendent head, dragging toe, swinging out-
ward of the foot when being advanced, shortness of the
step, and a tendency to stand with the toe only resting
on the ground and the limb bent but not advanced. Swell-
ing of the point of the shoulder is sometimes, though rarely
seen, but pressure on this point with the thumbs will
detect tenderness, which is especially marked as compared
with that of the other shoulder. The pressure should be
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made successively on the inner side of the tendon, on the
outer and on its centre.
Treatment. First subdue the inflammation by rest, a
high-heeled shoe and a wet rug kept hanging continually
over the shoulder (a blanket folded several times and tied
round the neck and chest), with or without a purge and
restricted diet. When the heat and tenderness have sub-
sided apply a smart blister over the point of the shoulder,
and repeat if lameness persists. In obstinate cases it may
be needful to use the hot iron, but only on the outer
side of the jomt, and never on the point where the collar
rests.
SPRAIN OF THE MUSCLES OUTSIDE THE SHOULDER-BLADE.
This is a sprain of the muscle which fills up the poste-
rior cavity on the outer side of the shoulder-blade and
plays over the outer side of the shoulder-joint (outer tu-
bercle of the head of the humerus). It occurs mainly in
young horses when first put to plow or in others going on
uneven ground and stepping unexpectedly into holes. In
the endeavor to recover the equilibrium on stepping into
a furrow or hole, this muscle which forms the outer sup-
port of the joint is injured and there result heat, swelling
and tenderness on the outside of the joint and a most
characteristic gait. The horse may walk; or even trot,
without much apparent lameness, but standing directly in
front of him the affected shoulder is seen to roll outward
from the body to a far greater extent than the sound one.
Soon the muscle begins to waste rapidly, and in bad cases
the shoulder-blade may be denuded until it appears to be
covered by nothing but skin.
Treatment. In the first stages, with heat, swelling and
tenderness outside the joint, rest, employ a wet rug, ete.,
as for sprain of the coraco-radial tendon. When this has
subsided allow exercise on smooth ground (walking, work-
ing in light cultivator,) and increase the circulation over
the wasted muscle by active friction with straw or a piece
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of wood: or by mild blisters (ammonia 1 pt., oil 2 pts.: or
Spanish flies 1 part, alcohol 25 pts., steeped for 24 hours
and strained): or stimulate with a galvanic battery. It
may take months to refill the cavity, but in all recent
eases perseverance will be rewarded. In old standing
cases with tatty degeneration of the muscles, a very par-
tial restoration only can be effected.
Té must be added that wasting of the shoulder muscles
is a common result of all lameness entailing disuse of the
limb and hence many injuries of the feet and elsewhere
are referred to the shoulder and designated sweeny (Schwin-
den) by wiseacres. In the absence of the peculiar gait
above described, of the early heat, swellig and tender-
ness outside the joint and the rapid wasting of the mus-
cle, the cause of the sweeny should be sought elsewhere
than the shoulder.
DISEASE OF THE SHOULDER-JOINT (INFLAMMATION,
ULCERATION, ETC.)
In the large quadrupeds, in which swelling and tender-
ness on handling are rarely seen, disease in the joint is to
be mainly distinguished by the general symptoms of
shoulder lameness and the absence of any of the signs of
local disease in the tendons, already described. Move-
ment of the joint by drawing the limb forward, and espe-
cially by drawing it backward, will usually give rise to
pain, sometimes of an extreme nature.
In dogs the capsule of the joint is found to bulge on
each side of the coraco-radial tendon which plays over
the point of the shoulder, and tenderness may be shown
when it is handled.
Treatment. When inflammation is very severe rest and —
soothing measures should be first resorted to. In the
majority of cases it assumes a subacute type and is to be
treated by a high-heeled shoe, rest and counter-irritants.
Repeated blistering with Spanish flies may suffice, but in
obstinate cases and whenever there is reason to suspect
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ulceration, the hot iron 1s most serviceable, applied round
the outer side of the joint only.
OTHER AFFECTIONS OF THE SHOULDER.
The shoulder-blade is subject to fracture, ulceration
and necrosis; the muscles beneath the bone to lacera-
tions ; the joint to dislocations (rare in large quadrupeds) ;
and the lymphatic glands inside the joint to abscess (es-
pecially in strangles), all of which must be treated on gen-
eral principles, space forbidding their further notice in
the present work. Shoulder lameness may further arise
from liver disease, which see.
AFFECTIONS OF THE ELBOW AND ARM.
Lameness in the region of the elbow is characterized
by the inability to extend the joint fully or to bear weight
upon it in this condition. Im bad cases the elbow and
knee joints are kept semiflexed when standing still, and
when walking or trotting the dropping of the head and
body is extreme, In consequence of a similar flexion.
Movement of the joint will also give rise to symptoms of
tenderness.
TUMORS ON THE POINT OF THE ELBOW.
These are usually caused by the heels of the shoe when
the horse lies with his fore limbs bent under him (cow
fashion) from undue narrowness of the stall.
Symptoms. There is first a hot, tender swelling, and if
the source of injury is kept up, this may increase by small
degrees to a very large size. Soon the swelling fluctuates
from contained serum and it may remain thus indefinitely,
the liquid being confined by the tough fibrous walls. Or
the serum may be absorbed leaving a hard nut-like tumor
with no sign of fluctuation.
Treatment. Sooth the early inflammation by fomenta-
tions or a wet rug hung over the part, and keep on a soft
laxative diet. If the amount of serum thrown out is
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limited, it may be entirely re-absorbed by using tincture of
iodine to remove the swelling. If more abundant let it be
drawn off with a cannula and trocar and the sac injected
with compound tincture of iodine diluted in double its
bulk of water. Ii this is not available, lay the sac freely
open at its lower part and heal like a common wound. It
a hard mass is left beneath the skin it is to be cut out as
advised for those on the shoulder.
By way of prevention the stall must be widened, and, in
the case of animals that will le on the breast, a pad or
girdle of two or three inches thick must be strapped round
the pastern at night to prevent the heel striking against
the elbow. This pad must be soft, covered with chamois’s
leather, made without a seam on its outer side, and buckled
above and below so that nothing hard may touch the elbow.
- WOUNDS OF THE ELBOW.
Wounds in this situation are often complicated with air
under the skin puffing up the whole region, having been
pumped in by the movements of the elbow. Rest is
requisite and the wound may be treated as others.
FRACTURE OF THE POINT OF THE ELBOW.
This is easily recognized, as the leg dangles, bending at
the elbow and knee, and it is impossible to bear any weight
on it. On taking hold of the back of the elbow the proc-
ess of bone is found to be detached and loose. If excess-
ive swelling prevents this, place the foot upon the ground,
bend back the knee forcibly and let an assistant raise the
opposite fore foot. If the bone is broken he will drop, if
the muscles only are injured he may stand.
Treatment. Jf the injury has occurred from a kick,
which has seriously contused the jot surfaces, all treat-
ment may be futile, but if not, the case will be hopeful
and especially in the young. Bring the detached bone as
nearly as possible into position and retain it by a pad
placed inside the elbow, and a bandage and splints con-
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tinued from the foot up. The patient must be placed in
slings.
DISEASE OF THE ELBOW-JOINT.
This must be diagnosed by the general symptoms of
elbow lameness and by pain in moving the joint, but espe-
cially when it is fully extended.
Treatment as for diseased shoulder-joint, the applications
in this case being made to the elbow. If far advanced or
if connected with fracture of the lower end of the arm
bone or of that forming the point of the elbow, it will
usually be unsatisfactory.
FRACTURE OF THE ARM BONE.
Fracture of the large bone between the point of the
shoulder and the elbow may occur from blows, or even
wrong steps, and is often attended by much swelling from
extravasation of blood. The only resort is to place the
animal in slings and keep him perfectly quiet. In rare
cases recovery has taken place with no distortion, the bro-
ken ends, in a transverse fracture, remaining in apposition.
Usually they are drawn apart by the muscles and ride
over each other so that the limb is shortened. Such a re-
sult is only desirable in breeding horses and in stock for
dairy or butcher.
FRACTURE OF THE FORE-ARM.
Fractures between the elbow and knee in horses or
cattle necessarily leave the animal unable to rest on the
limb ; if in dogs or cats one of the bones may be broken
while the other remains unharmed and weight can still be
borne. There is trembling of the muscles, distortion
easily felt on carrying the hand down the inner side along
the line of the bone, and grating when the limb is moved.
Treatment. Tf the fracture is very oblique treatment
will rarely pay in horses, but if transverse or jagged so
that the bones do not ride, the case is very hopeful. Set-
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ting the bones, with the aid of extension and counter-
extension, or even ether if necessary, applying splints and
bandages from the foot to the elbow, and placing in slings
(if a large animal) are the essential conditions.
SPRAIN OF THE RADIAL LIGAMENT.
This is an injury of a strong, flat, fibrous band, coming
from the lower third of the fore-arm and joining the back
tendons just above the knee. It is characterized by a
tendency to carry the pastern upright, or even to flex the
knee and to stumble. The knee cannot be fully flexed
without much pain, and there is a hot tender swelling
immediately behind the bone and extending from the knee
about four inches upward.
Treat by rest, a laxative, a high-heeled shoe, and fo-
mentations or cooling astringent lotions ; followed when
heat and tenderness subside by active blistermg should
lameness continue.
SPRAIN OF THE BACK TENDONS BEHIND THE KNEE.
THOROUGH-PIN OF THE KNEE.
This is manifested by a tense fluctuating swelling on
each side of the back tendons just above the knee and
behind the bone of the fore-arm ; also of a swelling behind
and immediately below the knee, pressure on one of these
swellings causing the fillmg up of the others and vice
versa. There may or may not be much lameness, or im-
possibility of flexing the knee so as to bring the fetlock
pad in contact with the elbow.
Treat the inflammation as in sprained radial ligament,
and the liquid distension by blister, by bandage and pads
shaped lke half of an egg cut longitudinally, or still better
by evacuating the liquid with the nozzle of a hypodermic
syringe, and then applying pressure with wet bandages.
SYNOVIAL SWELLINGS IN FRONT OF THE KNEE.
These are of three kinds: Ist, the distension of a bursa
or formation of a serous cyst under the skin, exceedingly
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common in heavy cattle; 2d, distension of the theca of
one or more of the four tendons which pass over the front
and outer side of the knee; 3d, and finally, disease inside
the knee-joint and distension of its capsule. The first is
superficial though often possessed of very thick walls, is
generally diffused over the front of the joint, and is little
affected by flexion or extension. The distended thecz
extend vertically along the lines of the tendons, reaching
above and below the joint and are bound down at in-
tervals by transverse bands; their size 1s little affected by
bending the joint. Distensions of the joint capsule ap-
pear in the intervals between the tendons, do not extend
beyond the joint except in very extreme cases, and disap-
pear in part or entirely when the joint is bent; in this
case the joimt is rarely kept fully extended in standing
and cannot usually be flexed to make the fetlock touch
the elbow.
Treatment. For Subcutaneous cysts puncture with nozzle
of hypodermic syringe, draw off the liquid and compress
strongly with wet bandages. If this cannot be done, pass
a tape from above downward through the cavity of the
sac, and keep in until resulting suppuration has ceased,
when it may be withdrawn from above downward a little
at a time. Excess of inflammation may be subdued by
fomentations and thick wet bandages.
The distended thecce may be punctured with a nozzle of
a hypodermic syringe and subjected to pressure, or treated
with strong blisters (biniodide of mercury 2 dr., lard 1 0z.,)
repeatedly applied ; or simple pressure will suffice if kept
up for some weeks increasing the time daily. Setons
would be dangerous.
For distended joint see below.
INFLAMMATION OF THE KNEE-JOINT.
This may be seen in all stages from that in which the
animal starts forward perceptibly at the knee and mani-
fests suffering when you try to fully extend it by strong
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pressure on its anterior surface, to the most violent and
destructive inflammation with extensive exudation of lymph
and even the formation of abscess. It tends to leave the
puffy swellings of its capsule referred to under the preced-
ing heading, or distinct hard bony enlargements on the
anterior surface of the joint. The animal stands squarely
upon his feet with no inclination to raise the heel, and in
action carries the knee-joint comparatively unbent, takes
a fairly long step and comes down with greatest force on
the heels so as to wear the shoe at this pomt. A rider
has a peculiar sensation of the chest smking under him.
The lameness increases with exercise, especially on hard
surfaces.
Treatment. Rest, without shoes; subdue inflammation
by soothing applications, after which blister the part. If
the animal persists in using it too freely, apply splints and
bandages to fix the joint, and place in slings.
WOUNDS OF THE KNEE.
DISLOCATION OF THE KNEE-JOINT with laceration of the
- Jateral ligaments occurs, and though if put in splints and
slings the patients will sometimes recover with a stiff knee,
the result is a very undesirable one.
BRUISE OF THE INNER SIDE OF THE KNEE. SPEEDY CUT.
This usually results from a blow with the opposite foot, in
horses with high action, in those with narrow chests, or,
above all, in horses driven in the snow-path. It is mani-
fested by an inflammatory swelling on the prominence of
bone inside the joint, resulting In a permanent scar, a
serous sac or an abscess. Its early or inflammatory stage
may be treated by lotions of cold water or astringent
liquids, kept constantly applied; the serous effusion by
pressure or by drawing off the liquid through a fine tube,
and then bandaging, and abscess by a free incision with a
knife or lancet.
To prevent keep the foot rather bare inside, with the
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face, allow no ragged nail clinches to project, and re-ad-
just the shoe sufficiently often (every three weeks). Ora
boot may be worn extending from the fetlock to the knee
and with a rim at its upper part to warn the animal when
his foot approaches this point.
Wounbs IN Front of THE KNEES. Broken Knees. Usu-
ally sustained in falling, but it may be by striking against
a manger or other hard object. They are of all degrees
of severity : 1st, simple loss of hair and slight abrasion of
the scarfskin; 2d, a severe bruise of the skin without
laceration; 3d, a wound extending no deeper than the
skin ; 4th, a wound laying bare the tendons and opening
their sheaths ; 5th, a wound laying open the joint and ex-
posing the bones with or without laceration of the tendons ;
and 6th, when the joint is opened and the small bones of
the knee broken.
Treatment. 1st, With simple abrasion no treatment is
needed ; 2d, if much bruised tie short to a high rack to
prevent lying down and bandage lghtly, using a mild
astringent lotion (sugar of lead $ oz., carbolic acid 60
drops, water 2 qts.); 3d, in all cases in which the wound
extends through the skin it is desirable to bend the knee
to the position occupied when wounded so that the deep
wounds may correspond with the superficial, and wash off
with a stream of tepid water or soft clean sponge all dunt
or foreign bodies, but never probe nor run any risk of
opening cavities which have not been injured. Any shreds
of tissue which are absolutely dead should be eut off, but
never remove any skin, however contused, as it will all be
wanted. Then cutting the hair from the flaps of the
wound above and below bring them together by straps of
plaster or tow dipped in shellac vie leaving sufficient
intervals for the escape of matter. If the wae inflames
and swells, give a purgative and dress with the lotion ad-
vised for bruised knee. In all severe cases it is desirable
to sling the patient after the first few days to obviate any
attempt to lie down, which would seriously protract the
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ease; 4th, the exposure of the tendons, with escape of
glairy synovia, will entail more swelling and fever and per-
manent enlargement of the joint, but will demand the
same course of treatment; 5th, when the tendons are
crushed or torn and the joint opened, and above all when
the bones are broken we have cases of increasing severity
and in few such is it desirable to subject to treatment, un-
less the patient is to be valuable for breeding purposes.
Considerable death of tendon and even necrosis and elimi-
nation of bone may be expected and the patient can only
recover with a stiff joint. In addition to the measures
already recommended, it becomes imperative to encase
the limb up to the elbow in splints and bandages, as for a
fracture, leaving open the part in front of the knee for
dressing the wound.
SPLINTS.
These are circumscribed inflammations of the perios-
teum and small bones in the region of the shank, involving
or not the shank-bones themselves, and resulting in small
bony swellings. They occur almost invariably on the inner
Fig. 67.
Fig. 67—Splint.
side of the limb, between the large and small bones of the
shank, and may usually be recognized by running the
fingers down the slight groove formed between the main
shank-bone and its small accessory one behind. It usually
connects the large bone to the small (anchylosis), but may
be confined to the posterior part of the small bone, or may
extend across the back of the shank-bone and appear at
the same level on the inner and outer sides of the limb
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alike. In old horses i is not unfrequent to find the small
bone united to the large along two-thirds ofits length. If
situated high up and close to the knee, it is more likely to
cause continued lameness than if lower down. Again if
an animal has several splints and other diseases of bone
he is highly objectionable, as being predisposed to bone
disease. '
Symptoms. Beside the feeling of the splints on hand-
ling, as above mentioned, these symptoms may be seen.
The patient may walk sound, or even trot so, on soft ©
ground, but is exceedingly lame when trotted on a hard
surface, and this lameness increases with exercise. The
extreme drooping of the head is characteristic. Even
before the formation of the splint tenderness may be
shown on pressure, and some little heat recognized. In
some cases considerable soft swelling may be felt in the
early stages. In acute cases, threatening abscess, the
lameness is extreme.
Treatment. In the early stages, rest, purge, and apply
cooling lotions. When heat and tenderness subside, blis-
ter. Some cases will recover promptly, others require
repeated blistering and a long period of rest. If heat and
ereat tenderness return, resort again to soothing measures.
In extreme tenderness, threatening the formation of mat-
ter, the periosteum should be divided with a very narrow-
bladed knife which is passed through the skin half an inch
-below the swelling and carried up over it. The part must
then be covered by a wet bandage.
INFLAMMATION OF THE MEMBRANE COVERING THE SHANK-BONE.
SORE SHINS.
This occurs especially in over-worked young horses.
Racers are very liable, but cart-horses are not exempt.
There is general tumefaction of the shank-bone or of some
part of it, usually the lower, with a lameness greatly re-
sembling that of splints. If slight and circumscribed, the
exudation that takes place between the membrane and
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the bone is ossified, giving rise to permanent thickening,
and exudation outside the membrane may follow a similar
course, causing a very considerable swelling. In the more
severe cases, the abundant exudation, separating the
membrane from the bone, may cut off the supply of blood
and entail necrosis; or the lymph may degenerate into
pus which burrows beneath the membrane, separating it
from the bone and destroying the life of the latter.
Treatment. In mild cases treat like splints. In the
very severe with great tenderness and doughy swelling of
the bone, make a series of incisions through the membrane
covering the bone, with a very narrow-bladed knife and
by valvular wounds, passing the blade a short distance
beneath the skin before cutting down on the bone. Then
apply the lotion advised for broken knees.
FRACTURE OF THE SPLINT BONES.
The lower ends of the small bones of the shank are
hable to be broken, the lesion being made out by the
swelling at the point and the unnatural mobility of the
lower end of the bone, though grating is not to be ex-
pected. No treatment is needed beyond a cooling bandage
and rest.
FRACTURE OF THE SHANK-BONE.
This is broken by kicks, blows, or simply by con-
cussion in exercise. The superficial position of the
bone renders all distortion very apparent, and this with
the impossibility of resting weight on the limb and the
grating of the broken ends when handled are unmistak-
able. |
Treatment. If comminuted, as it often is, the animal
had best be slaughtered. If only compound, hopes
may be entertained, especially in young animals, an open-
ing being made in the bandage to dress the wound. I sim-
ple and the fracture not too oblique, nothing is easier than
to set it, to envelop it in a bandage extending over and
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fixing the knee, and to keep the patient in slings until
union has taken place.
SPRAINS OF THE BACK TENDONS.
'Fhese are the two cords which form the posterior line
of the limb between the knee and the fetlock. About
midway down the shank the front one is joined by a strong
cord coming from the upper end of the cannon-bone and
the lower row of small knee bones. This last is by far
the most frequent seat of sprain, so that the swelling and
tenderness are observed between the upper half of the
cannon-bone and the round cord which forms the posterior
outline of the limb. In other cases the tendons have
participated in the sprain, and they too are thickened and
tender from the middle of the shank (the point of junction
with the ligament) down to the fetlock. In a third class
the sprain is confined to an inch or two above the fetlock.
In these the swelling is to the two sides if the anterior of
the two tendons is injured and backward if the posterior
is sprained. The symptoms are a stumbling gait, with
a tendency to stub the toe into the ground and to bend
over at the knee and fetlock; an inclination to stand with
the knee and fetlock slightly bent, the pastern upright or
the heel a little raised; then passing the hand along the
line of the tendons and in front of them in the upper half
of the bone, the thumb on one side and the fingers on the
other, any slight thickening is easily recognized, and if
heat exists and pain on pinching, your suspicions are con-
firmed. In old bad cases the stay ligament and lower
half of the tendons are greatly thickened throughout and
the knee kept constantly bent, sometimes to the extent of
causing the patient to walk on the front of the hoof. In
other cases the cords are knotted, hard and wanting in
suppleness, showing calcification of their substance.
Treatment. In the early stages of severe cases, rest,
shorten the toe, apply a high-heeled shoe, and apply hot
fomentation continuously, or cold astringent lotions.
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When heat and tenderness have subsided the high-heeled
shoe may be dispensed with, the foot shod level and active
blisters applied. ‘The preparations of the iodides of mer-
cury are among the best. In old cases of extreme con-
traction the tendons can be cut across by a narrow-
bladed knife with as httle external wound as possible,
and the limb extended to its proper form and retained
there by splints and bandages until new fibrous tissue
fills up the interval between the divided ends. 'The oper-
ation is performed in the middle of the shank below the
connection with the stay igament and is very successful
in appropriate cases, restoring a helpless cripple to perfect
usefulness. For the minutie of the operation the reader
is referred to our larger work. Calcified, knotted tendons
are utterly unsuited to it.
SPRAIN OF THE SUSPENSORY LIGAMENT.
This structure lies between the shank-bone and the
back tendons and extends from the back of the lower part
of the knee to the little bones (sesamoids) which form the
pulley for the tendons behind the fetlock, with prolonga-
tions forward on the sides of the pastern to join the ex-
tensor tendon of the foot. The seat of sprain may be at
any part but is usually in the lower third of the shank,
where it divides into an inner and an outer branch. The
sprain may cause but the slightest perceptible swelling on
one of these branches or the ligament may be completely
torn across, the fetlock descending to the ground and the
toe turning up. Any injury to this hgament is likely to
cause more persistent lameness than a corresponding in-
jury to the back tendons, seeing it is a mechanical support
to the fetlock and is always on the strain when the animal
stands upon the limb.
Symptoms. Persistent, often severe lameness, upright
pastern, stumbling gait or undue lowering of the fetlock
when weight is thrown upon the limb. Then by bringing
the fingers and thumb down the line of the cord felt im-
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mediately behind the lower half of the shank-bone be-
tween it and the back tendons, some enlargement is
detected with heat and tenderness. In bad cases, with
descent of the fetlock, the whole length of the cord -is
thickened and the infiltration of the surrounding parts
gives the whole back of the limb a soft doughy feeling.
Treatment is much less satisfactory than in sprains of the
back tendons but the principles are the same, though
a much longer period of rest and blistering is usually
demanded. In severe forms with descent of the fetlock,
that must be supported by splints and bandages, in the
same manner as after cutting the back tendons, otherwise
the limb will be permanently distorted. These severe
cases, which usually result from the most violent exertions
in racing or hunting, rarely recover so as to be fit for such
work in future, though they may be useful for service at a
slow pace.
SPRAIN OF THE BACK TENDONS OVER THE FETLOCK PULLEY.
WIND-GALLS. SESAMOIDITIS.
This is the result of sprains or severe exertions and is al-
ways associated with round elastic synovial swellings on
each side of the tendons, familiarly known as puffs or wind-
galls. Similar swellings arise, independent of sprains, as
the result of over-exertion or dropsy of the part. The
swellings may become solid by coagulation of the lymph
and may be absorbed or organized, or the inflaimmation
may attack the bone, leading to ulceration and bony de-
posits. Similar bony deposits with or without ulceration
may take place on these small bones in connection with
injuries of the suspensory ligament.
Treatment. Simple wind-galls, dropsical or from over-
exertion, may be made to disappear by persistent pressure
with a bandage and pads applied at first two hours twice
a day, and two hours more every day thereafter, until
they can be kept on all the time. It may, however, re-
quire five or six weeks and should be stopped if it
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causes inflammation in the sac. Another plan is to draw
off the liquid through the nozzle of a hypodermic syringe
and apply a firm wet bandage. In some quiet animals
a weak solution of iodine may be injected, but this is too
often injurious or at least fruitless, from the irritability of
the horse. Recent puffs will sometimes disappear under
strong astringent lotions (oak-bark and alum) or under an
active blister, or after firing, the contraction of the skin
during healing appearing to be a principal cause of their
absorption.
Where there is sprain with much heat, tenderness and
tension, treat by rest, purgative, a high-heeled shoe, and
fomentations or cooling astringent lotions, to be followed
by blisters when the tenderness subsides.
Disease of the bones (Sesamoiditis) must be treated
with severe blisters and even firing, with long continued
rest, but if ulcers already exist on the gliding surface of
the bones a complete recovery need scarcely be looked for.
SPRAIN OF THE INFERIOR SESAMOID LIGAMENTS.
The ligaments below these pulley-shaped bones behind the
fetlock are sometimes sprained, causing great lameness
with swelling and tenderness below the fetlock pad.
Treat as for injury to the suspensory ligament.
ELASTIC SWELLING IN FRONT OF THE FETLOCK.
These are of two kinds: Ist, a serous abscess or en-
larged bursa under the the skin: and 2d, the distension of
a large synovial bursa between the extensor tendon and
the capsule of the joint. The first swells out as a uniform
rounded tumor on the front of the jomt. The second has
at first the appearance of a double tumor from the svwell-
ing appearing at the two sides of the extensor tendon, and
it is only in severe cases and advanced stages that these
meet over the centre. They usually result from pricks or
bruises, though the second form may be associated with
sprain. Any existing inflammation should be subdued by
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soothing measures and a blister applied early to secure
absorption of the liquid if possible. Should this fail the
liquid may .be drawn off as advised for wind-galls, and the
part tightly bandaged. Or a free incision may be made
in the lower part of the sac and wet bandages applied to
keep down inflammatory action, while the sac is obliter-
ated by healing from the bottom.
DISEASE OF THE FETLOCK JOINT.
This is occasionally the seat of simple dropsical effusion,
causing it to swell out like wind-galls on the inner and outer
sides, just above the sesamoid bones. The swellings are,
however, placed more anteriorly than distensions of the
tendinous sheath, and pressure upon them does not cause
bulging nor fluctuation behind and below the fetlock, on
the line of the tendons. ‘This is not necessarily connected
with lameness, though if the result of inflammation of the
joint, that is more likely. Inflammation of the joint may
be recognized by the habitual resting of the leg, which
starts forward at the fetlock, by the appearance of wind-
galls just described, and by a swelling heat and tenderness
of the entire joint. Bending the joint fully causes intense
pain as does also full extension.
Treatment does not differ from that of other inflamed
joints.
DISLOCATION OF THE FETLOCK.
This occurs like that of the knee in connection with
rupture of the lateral igaments. We have had recoveries
so as to be very useful for farm work by reducing the dis-
location and fixing with splints and bandages, but this
cannot by any means be calculated on.
BLOWS ON THE INSIDE OF THE FETLOCK. OUTTING.
Like cutting on the inner side of the knee, this arises
from blows received in action. Weak animals with turned-
out toes and distorted feet are most liable. It is to be
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treated by soothing measures, and if the bones or joints
become involved, treat as advised for the respective in-
juries!) 5 +
To prevent, let the feet be kept a little bare on the inner
side and the shoes slightly leveled off, but avoid lowering
the foot or thinning the shoe on the inner side. On the
contrary a very slight thickening of the shoe on the inside
is sometimes beneficial, by straightening up the fetlock
and removing it from danger. If this fails wear a leather
boot with a projecting rim, or a simple woolen bandage.
In weak subjects benefit is often derived from bringing
into a better condition of health.
FRACTURES OF THE PASTERN BONES.
These are exceedingly common in horses running on
hard ground or even on soft movable sand. They are of
all degrees of severity, from a simple split without separa-
tion of the broken pieces, to a complete shattering of the
bone into a dozen fragments or more. Simple fractures
are usually oblique, or even vertical, the bone being split
in two nearly equal lateral halves, but transverse breaks
are also seen.
Symptoms. In shattered specimens the case is easily
made out and the victim should be destroyed at once. In
cases of detachment sufficient to allow grating when the
bones are moved (flexed and extended) there is as little
difficulty. But in cases of splitting without detachment.
the parts being held firmly together by the strong fibrous
investments, the case is liable to be mistaken. There is
the fact that the injury occurred suddenly during action.
the horse at once showing lameness, more extreme on hard
ground; there is no injury to ligaments nor tendons; but
pain when the pastern is fully flexed, and with or without
swelling on the bone there is a line of tenderness which
can easily be traced with the fingers and corresponds to the
fracture.
Treatment. Place the patient in slings, and if grating
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is heard apply a strong bandage to above the fetlock. If
no grating sooth the early inflammation for a day or two,
then render the parts immovable by a smart blister on the
front and sides of the pastern from the hoof to the fetlock.
Such cases usually do well, though if the fracture extends
into a joint the recovery is likely to be imperfect.
In the smaller animals bandages are requisite for fract-
ure of the digital bones.
BONY GROWTHS ON THE PASTERN BONES. RINGBONES.
These usually begin as inflammation of the membrane
covering the bones, and at such points as give attachment
to ligaments, namely: the lateral aspects of the lower or
small pastern bone, and of the lower end of the upper or
Fig. 68.
Fig. 68—Ringbones—high and low. The rough irregular deposits of new
bone are shown on the lateral parts of the large and small pastern bones
respectively.
large bone. There is a circumscribed, tender and some-
what elastic swelling, with more or less soft, doughy en-
gorgement of the investing soft parts, and in course of
time the exuded matter, at first soft, becomes hard and
Special Injuries of Bones, Joints and Muscles. 345
bony. The process in the early stages often appears to
consist in the dragging of the periosteum and vessels from
the surface and the development of bone beneath. But as
the disease advances the whole surface of one or both
bones may become involved, leading to a general deposi-
tion of new bony matter, extending, it may be, over the
joint between the two pastern bones, or between the lower
pastern and the bone of the foot, and abolishing all move-
ment. Ringbones may also take origin im partial fract-
ures, in concussion, in rheumatoid disease, and in faults
of nutrition, in which the earthy salts are largely passed
with the urine.
Symptoms. Lameness may be almost altogether absent,
or it may be extreme in such cases as are attended by act-
ive inflammation of the bone or joint, or when the joint
has become fixed by bony deposit. The heel may be first
brought to the ground or, in the hind foot, the fetlock
may knuckle over and the toe strikes first. The lameness
is worst on hard ground and usually increases with exer-
cise. Swelling may be scarcely perceptible and confined
to the inner or outer side of one pastern bone, or it may
be an extreme enlargement of the whole pastern region.
It may be hard throughout in old cases, or softer and
slightly elastic at points where active disease is still going
on. Forcible bending of the pastern causes much pain,
as also pressure on the swelling and especially on the
softer and more recent deposits. ‘
Treatment. Rest, second the indications of nature in
order to secure an easy position, using a high-heeled shoe
when the animal walks on the toe and a thin-heeled one
when he walks on his heel. If there is very active in-
flammation adopt soothing measures first and then blister
severely or even fire. Corrosive sublimate and camphor
20 grains of each, muriatic acid 10 drops and oil of tur-
pentine 1 oz. is often useful in such cases, but should be
watched and washed off when sufficient exudation has
taken place, otherwise it may blemish. In firing it is usu-
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ally desirable to penetrate the skin in points, but never
keep the hot iron long in contact with it lest the radiated
heat destroy the integument. It is often needful to allow
a rest of several months for consolidation of the new de-
posit. When the joints are much affected the only cure
is by the growth of bone over them and the abolition of
movement, and then there remains some stiffness though
there may be ability for slow work. Old horses recover
less satisfactorily than young ones. If there is reason to
suspect a rheumatic complication or any general fault in
nutrition these must be attended to.
SPRAIN OF THE FLEXOR TENDONS BEHIND THE PASTERN.
This is of two kinds, though both in almost the same
seat. Opposite the first pastern joint the posterior ten-
don divides into two branches which passing over the in-
ner and outer sides of the other tendon are inserted on
the corresponding aspects of the head of the small pastern
bone. Between these branches the other tendon plays
over a raised fibro-cartilaginous pulley, its gliding being
favored by a synovial sac. This last tendon may be
sprained as it plays over this pulley, in the median line
of the back of the limb, and either of the branches of the
other tendon may be sprained close to its attachment on
the inner or outer side of this pulley.
Symptoms. Standing quiet the animal keeps the fet-
lock and pastern joints slightly flexed, the foot advanced
six or eight inches, the heel slightly raised and the toe
resting on the ground. In action he steps short and stubs
the toe into the ground and generally improves as he
warms up to work. ‘The toe of the shoe wears faster than
the heel, and the heel in old standing cases may be a lit-
tle contracted, but it is not unnaturally warm, nor is there
wincing on tapping the quarter or the sole to either side
of the body of the frog, with a hammer. This serves to
distinguish from disease of the small pulley-shaped bone
of the foot—the misnamed cofin-joint disease. Pressure
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on the tendons in the hollow of the heel causes much pain
and wincing, and the precise seat of injury may be ascer-
tained from the position of greatest suffering—in the me-
dian line, to the inner side or to the outer.
Treatment. Shorten the toe, apply a high-heeled shoe
and surround the pastern with bandages soaked in cold
water or some cooling astringent lotion. A purgative will
be useful if inflammation runs high. When heat and ten-
derness subside, any remaining lameness may usually be
removed by a blister on the front and sides of the pastern.
FRACTURES OF THE HIP-BONES.
FRACTURE OF THE OUTER ANGLE. In young animals a
little nodule from the extreme angle is often broken off by
blows before it has acquired a firm connection with the
parent bone. In the old, the fracture usually extends
deeper, three, four, or six inches in breadth being often
detached. In either case the fragment is drawn down-
ward by the muscles leading to a greater or less flattening
of the quarter, and it usually becomes attached to the
parent bone by fibrous tissue or even bony union. In
- some instances, the fragment acting as a foreign body sets
up inflammation with suppuration and a running sore.
The slighter cases are not necessarily attended by lame-
ness but if much bone has been detached, with consider-
able flattening, there is more or less halting on the limb.
Treatment consists in keeping the animal still until union
has been effected, or in case of a running sore a free in-
cision should be made and the fragment of bone extracted.
FRACTURE OF THE INNER ANGLE NEAR ITS JUNCTION WITH
THE BackponeE. This is less frequent than the last but
still tolerably common. It causes considerable lameness,
and grating is heard when the limb is moved backward
and forward. The oiled hand introduced through the
rectum may feel the outline of the bones on the two sides,
and detect the change from the natural form on the broken
one. If it has been done for some time, there is a soft
pasty swelling on the inner side of the bone
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FRACTURE OF THE Pornt or THE Hip. As in the case of
the outer angle, the posterior one is very liable to sustain
fracture of a small portion which is developed apart from
the rest of the bone. In other cases several inches in
breadth of the bone is detached. In both cases alike it is
drawn downward so that the prominence on one side of
the tail is greater than on the other. It may be unat-
tended by lameness and tends to grow on below, though
it will sometimes remain detached and form a running
sore in which case it must be removed by the knife.
FRACTURES THROUGH THE SHAFT OF THE Hip-BonE. These
may be in front of the hip-joint, behind it, or through it.
Again, they may be simple or comminuted. If the fract-
ure does not implicate the jomt, weight may still be rested
on the limb, but if through the joint the limb is held use-
less. The dragging lameness of hip disease is always
present and grating may be felt by seizing the outer and
posterior angles of the hip in the two hands while the
animal walks. Examination with the oiled hand in the
rectum will enable the observer to ascertain the exact
seat and nature of the injury.
Treatment of Fractures of the Hip. T£ through the joint,
or much shattered, the animal should be at once de-
stroyed. If a simple fracture the patient should be put
in slings and kept still for a month or six weeks. In such
cases recovery may be expected.
SPRAIN OF THE HIP.
This is one of the most common injuries of the hip and
is located in the tendon of the largest muscle of the but-
tock as it plays over the large process on the head of the ©
thigh-bone. Its exact site is easily found in thin horses
by the prominence over the joint and midway between the
anterior and posterior angles of the hip-bone. There is
the usual dragging hip lameness, a quick short step with
the affected limb, the hip being moved as little as possible, —
suffering when the member is drawn forward and tender-
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ness to pressure on the seat of the sprain. Swelling and
heat are rare because of the depth of the lesion. In cases
of any standing the muscles of the quarter waste.
Treatment. Long continued rest, with at first fomenta-
tions, and later, active and repeated blisters, or even the
hot iron applied in points. Some chronic cases do well
under a combination of exercise and counter-irritants as
follows: rub the affected quarter with oil of turpentine,
_ then take out and exercise in a circle until covered with
perspiration ; then return to the stable, rub down and
clothe with a double wet blanket over the lame quarter.
Repeat daily for some time.
DISPLACEMENT OF THE ABDUCTOR FEMORIS.
- Lean cattle are subject to a peculiar form of hip lame-
ness, from displacement backward of the large muscle
which plays over the prominence at the head of the thigh-
bone. The high, bony process presses on the anterior
border of the muscle, preventing it from resuming its
natural position. The anterior border of the muscle forms
a prominent painless cord extending from behind the hip-
joint to below the stifle. In moving, the toe is dragged
along the ground, being extended backward, and the limb
is flexed with effort and often in a sudden and convulsive
manner, and accompanied by a dull sound. These symp-
toms are most marked if the animal is made to step over
a bar of six or eight inches high as he leaves the stable.
Treatment. Some recover under good nourishment with
or without blisters, but usually it is best to make an incis-
ion over the front of the cord an inch or two below the
head of the thigh-bone and cut the border of the muscle
across with a narrow-bladed knife. The animal may be
kept quiet by the bull-dog pincers in his nose, and by
drawing the opposite limb forward with a line passed
through a collar.
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DISEASE OF THE HIP-JOINT.
This may be connected with a partial fracture of the
bones of the quarter extending into the joint, with lacera-
tion of the ligaments, with ulceration of the bones, or
with simple synovitis, from over-work, rheumatism, or
other cause. The symptoms strongly resemble those of
sprain of the hip, but there is no pain on pressure upon
the prominence on the head of the thigh-bone, but often
much suffering when the limb is drawn outward and
backward, so as to place the ligaments on the stretch. It
is attended with wasting of the muscles of the quarter.
Treatment. Rest, slmg if at all convenient, foment the
quarter with a thick rug repeatedly folded, and finally
. blister actively or, still better, fire. A long period of rest
is usually necessary.
DISLOCATION OF THE HIP.
This is almost unknown in the horse excepting in con-
nection with fracture, but is not very uncommon in lean
cattle and small animals as a consequence of falls and
dragging of the limb to excess in any one direction. It
will even happen from extreme dragging of the limb out-
ward when caught over a bar. Displacement is usually
forward or backward. In the former case the lhmb is
shortened, the prominence of the head of the thigh-bone
carried forward and the toe turned out. In the latter the
limb is elongated, the prominence of the head of the
thigh-bone’carried backwards and the toe turned inward.
Dislocations inward and outward are also described and
would be marked by the deviations of the limb from its
normal position, and the depression or increased promi-
nence of the head of the thigh-bone.
Reduction. Lay the animal on the opposite side of the
body; maintain the body immovable by a strong sheet
carried between the thighs and held by several men or
fixed to a firm object ; attach a band round the limb above
the hock and let two men drag upon this, or one man
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carefully with the aid of a block and tackle; meanwhile
the operator, seizing hock and stifle, must turn the upper
part of the hmb in a direction opposite to the displace-
ment. If forward the hock is raised and the stifle de-
pressed; if backward the stifle is raised and the hock
depressed ; if eward a smooth round billet of wood is to
be placed between the thighs to act as a fulcrum upon
which the limb is depressed when sufficiently stretched ;
if outward the lower part of the limb must be drawn out-
ward and upward, while weight 1s thrown on the thigh-
bone ; or by movements of the limb it may be changed to
a dislocation forward and reduced from that position. It
may be necessary to relax the muscles by a full dose of
chloral-hydrate before attempting to reduce. When re-
duced, the head of the bone slips in with a jerk and an
_audible sound, and the limb assumes its natural position.
The animal may then be let up, and should be kept quiet
and-alone for several days. ‘These cases do far better
than could be expected from the anatomical arrangements
of the part.
FRACTURE OF THE NECK OF THE THIGH-BONE.
This is not uncommon in small animals, especially dogs,
but very rare indeed in the large quadrupeds. It is marked
by shortening of the limb, inability to use it, and grating
when it is moved. If the finger or hand is passed into the
rectum and pressed against the crest above the hip-
joint, while an assistant draws the limb outward, the
prominence of the head of the thigh-bone may be felt
above the crest. This can only occur in two other
conditions ;—fracture of the outer rim of the cup receiy-
ing the head of the thigh-bone, and outward dislocation
of the hip-joint without fracture. The latter may be dis-
tinguished by the absence of grating, while the first is as
serious as the fracture of the neck of the bone.
Treatment is useless in the large quadrupeds, but in the
small, a firm retentive starch bandage for the whole imb
will often secure recovery.
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FRACTURE OF THE SHAFT OF THE THIGH-BONE.
This is marked by inability to use the limb, muscular
trembling, swelling on the inner side of the thigh, and
grating, felt or heard, when the limb is moved in various
directions. In the larger quadrupeds nothing can be done
beyond slinging and quiet, which may prove successful in
exceptional cases, but in small animals, dogs and cats
especially, a well applied starch bandage will usually be a
SUCCESS.
FRACTURES OF THE LOWER ENDS OF THE THIGH-BONE,
These are recognized by great pain and swelling in the
stifle, with grating when the joint is seized between the
hands and the limb moved. It may be considered ir-
remediable in the large animals, and recoveries are imper-
fect in the small.
FRACTURE OF THE KNEE-CAP.
The small bone in front of the stifle is sometimes fract-
ured either across or vertically, causing local swelling and
tenderness with inability to use the limb, which is drawn
backward and outward. It is irremediable.
DISLOCATION OF THE KNEE-CAP.
Not uncommon in certain breeds of horses, this usually
occurs when standing at rest in the stable or rather after
rising. The limb is drawn forcibly outward and backward,
the foot resting on the toe, and the animal is helpless to
move it. The bone may be felt displaced at the outer side,
at what should be the most prominent anterior point of
the stifle. In young horses it may be attended with ulcer-
ation of the pulley over which it plays, but, in the adult,
this is very exceptional.
Reduction may sometimes be effected by starting the
animal with a whip, the limb being brought forward under
the violent effort and the bone meanwhile slipping into
place. More commonly it is requisite to draw the foot
at alls
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forward, either by simply lifting it, or by the aid of a rope
having a noose round the fetlock, and passing through a
collar on the neck. While the limb is being advanced, a
hand should be placed on the bone outside the stifle to
press it into position. When reduced keep on a level (not
slippery) floor; apply a shoe with a toe piece projecting
an inch in front of the hoof, and curved up; and finally
put a smart blister on the joint.
Second Form. A modification of the above is seen in
horses and cattle, in which the knee-cap is dawn too high
during extreme extension of the stifle, and then pulled
outward by the abductor muscles; its inner lateral liga-
ment slips into the notch above the pulley, over which the
bone should play, and the animal remains helpless with
the hmb drawn back as in ordinary dislocation. There is
a depression in front of the upper part of the stifle, sur-
mounted by a swelling which is soft, not hard, as it would
be were the current explanation of cramp of the muscles
correct. The reduction is by the same method advised for
ordinary dislocation, and the after treatment identical.
DISEASE IN THE STIFLE JOINT.
If between the knee-cap and its pulley the patient usually
drags the toe on the ground, steps short and brings the
foot forward with a swinging outward motion. The leg is
kept half bent when standing, the knee-cap is felt to move
loosely on the pulley, causing pain, and an elastic fluctu-
ating swelling is felt beneath it in the intervals between
the three descending ligaments. In disease of the inner or
outer division of the true joint the animal stands with it in
the same position, but in walking it may either be jerked
up suddenly, or in the worst cases, this joint and the hock
are carried in a stiff extended position and the principal
movement is in the hip. An elastic swelling may usually
be felt beneath the knee-cap but it is less prominent than
in disease of the pulley, and the bone is less mobile and
does not cause pain when moved.
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Treatment. All cases require a high-heeled shoe ex-
cepting such as are attonded with dislocation of the knee-
cap, in which case a thin-heeled shoe with a projection
forward at the toe is indicated. Rest is essential, and in
case of very acute inflammation, fomentations should pre-
cede repeated blistering or firing. A long rest is impera-
tive. In ulceration of the bones and dislocation of the
knee-cap in young animals, the fault 1s mainly in nutrition,
and a rich diet, tonics, pure air and sunshine are demanded.
FRACTURE OF THE LEG BETWEEN THE THIGH AND HOCK.
The principal bone of this region (tibia) lying superficially
on the inner side of the leg is very liable to fracture from
kicks. The symptoms are patent enough when the fract-
ure is complete, the bone hanging useless, and the broken
ends being easily felt beneath the skin. But in very
many cases the bone is only split part of the way through
and the patient may show little lameness, may even do a
fair day’s work or perform a long journey with his broken
bone. But with the occurrence of the exudation and soft-
ening around the seat of injury, the bone gives way under
a slight strain, and thus the fracture appears to have oc-
curred from getting up in the stall, though several hard
days’ work may have been done since the injury was re-
ceived.
Treatment. In all cases of blows on the inner side of
the leg in which a line of tenderness extends from the
point of the bone which has been struck, place the animal
in slings and wait for repair. A compound or commi-
nuted fracture of this bone need hardly be treated in large
quadrupeds. A simple transverse fracture may recover
in slings, with a firm bandage and splints from the foot
up to above the stifle. I have had a fair recovery even.
with a very oblique fracture, but this should only be at-
tempted in valuable breeding animals. |
The smaller bone of the leg (fibula) may be fractured by
falling in shafts or across a pole or beam. ‘The resulting
Special Inyuries of Bones, Joints and Muscles. 355
lameness is most puzzling as the broken ends of the bone
are held together by fibrous tissue, and though they move
hinge-like no grating is produced. Then the bone is so
deeply covered by muscle that it cannot be felt.. A blow
on the outer side of the hind leg, just below the stifle, in-
ducing persistent lameness, with tenderness on pressure
along the line of the bone on the outer side of the limb,
and without any other apparent injury, implies fracture of
this bone.
Treatment. A month’s absolute rest and one or more
blisters over the seat of injury.
SPRAIN OR LACERATION OF THE MUSCLE WHICH BENDS
THE HOCK.
This is often sprained at its lower part, and especially
in its inner branch which passes over the front and inner
side of the lower part of the hock joint, giving rise to a
swelling exactly in the seat of bone spavin. It is dis-
tinguished by its tense, elastic nature and by its position
on this tendon rather than above or below it.
Treatment. A smart blister, or this failing, evacuate
with a fine nozzle of a hypodermic syringe and then apply
a wet bandage or blister. This form is rarely hurtful.
When more severely sprained the swelling, heat and
tenderness may be felt in front of the hock or on the
anterior and outer side of the stifle according to the seat
of injury. The limb is usually carried very straight, there
being little or no bending of either hock or stifle. It is
to be treated in the ordinary way by soothing measures
followed by blisters or firing.
Lacerations of the muscle, or more frequently rupture of
the tendon occurs, causing the hock to be carried straight
and the shank dangling nearly in a line with the leg. In
some instances from violent contraction of the extensor
muscles, the foot may be jerked out backward when the
patient is started. In injury to the muscle there is at
first a depression at the part with swelling above and
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below, but soon the hollow fills up and may become prom-
inent, soft and doughy. In rupture of the tendon the
depressed interval, or later, a soft doughy swelling on the
line of the cord in front of the hock, is sufficiently char-
acteristic. :
Treatment. Rest, and astringent lotions to the part
(acetate of lead 3 drs., water 1 qt.) These cases almost
always do well.
SPRAIN OF THE HAMSTRING.
This is productive of lameness with manifest pain in
extending the hock and a jerk in lifting the limb and is
easily recognized by the firm swelling of the cord above
the point of the hock. It is to be treated by a high-
heeled shoe, with fomentations and subsequently blisters
to the part.
RUPTURE OF THE HAMSTRING.
This is much more serious, the hock and fetlock bend-
ing so as to render the limb useless whenever weight is
placed upon it. The separation of the divided ends can
easily be felt through the skin.
Treatment. If in large quadrupeds place in slings. In
all apply an immovable bandage, and splints extending
from the foot to some way above the hock, su as to keep
that joint fully extended.
CAPPED HOCK.
This is of two kinds: Ist, a serous distension of a bursa
which exists between the skin and the point of the hock ;
and 2d, sprain of the tendon inserted on the point of the
hock (gastrocnemius) or of the one which plays over it
(perforatus).
1. The distension of the subcutaneous bursa usually
results from kicks or blows and is to be feared as in-
dicating vice, but rarely causes lameness. The soft fluctu-
ating swelling is directly backward from the point of the
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hock, and may be of almost any size. Slight and recent
cases may be treated by a purge and soothing lotions to be
followed as soon as heat and tenderness subside by a
smart blister (iodide of mercury 2 drs., lard 1 oz.) Should
the sac remain, evacuate with the nozzle of a hypodermic
syringe and apply a wet elastic bandage; or open by a
small orifice below and heal like an ordinary wound. To
prevent its repetition is a much more difficult matter as it
usually implies the cure of a vice. Stretching prickly
bushes or chains behind him, tying chains or logs to the
limb above the hock, or applying hobbles are all more
likely to ensure permanent injury to a nervous animal
than to cure him of his vice. A kicking strap will often
succeed in harness.
2. In ease of sprain of the tendons, the swelling takes
place at the two sides and above rather than at the point
of the hock. It is more or less tense but elastic and even
fluctuates on pressure. It is often attended with severe
lameness which may become permanent in connection with
ulceration of the bone. It is to be treated like an ordinary
sprain by high-heeled shoe, and fomentations or cold
astringent lotions, followed by blister. If swelling remains
it may be punctured and compressed as in the first form
of capped hock, but a seton should not be used.
DISPLACEMENT OUTWARD OF THE TENDON PLAYING OVER
THE POINT OF THE HOCK.
This is a rare occurrence, the tendon being traceable as
a firm cord across the outer side of the bone in place of
over its summit. It seems impossible to restore it to its
place, as the band which fixed the tendon to the inner part
of the bony process has given way. Fortunately the
= animal is often little incommoded after the subsidence of
the preliminary inflammation, and I have known one do
excellent carriage work, the only objection being the un-
sightliness of the hock,
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SPRAIN OF THE FLEXOR TENDON (PERFORANS) BEHIND THE
HOCK. THOROUGH-PIN.
This tendon plays over the back of the hock, to the
inner side of the bony process which forms its point, and
has a large synovial sheath extending above and below the
joint. When sprained at this point there is lameness, a
tendency to knuckle over at the fetlock, and a round, tense,
elastic, fluctuating swelling on each side in front of the point
of the hock and in the hollow between the hamstring and
the bone. Pressure on the one side causes bulging on the
other, and pressure on both causes fluctuation on the line
of the tendon below and behind the hock.
Treatment. A high-heeled shoe, rest, fomentations, or
cooling lotions and a purgative. When heat and tender-
ness subside, blister, repeatedly, or even fire when there
is reason to suspect disease of the bone. When all lame-
ness has passed off leaving only a puffy swelling, or when
that has appeared without lameness as the result of work
Fig. 69.
Fig. 69—Spring bandage for thorough-pin.
or as a dropsical effusion, apply a spring bandage with two
smooth round pads pressing on the inner and outer swell-
ings. The accompanying cut may enable any saddler to
construct such an instrument, the spring being made of
good spring steel and covered with leather.
DISTENSION OF THE SHEATH OF THE EXTENSOR TENDON IN
FRONT OF THE HOCK.
This causes a tense fluctuating swelling at the front and
outer side of the hock. It is rare and not usually injuri-
i al _
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ous, but may be treated lke similar synovial swellings
elsewhere.
FRACTURE OF THE INNER MALLEOLUS.
This consists in fracture of the bony prominence on the
inner side of the hock at its highest point. It usually re-
sults from a blow with the opposite foot in fighting flies.
There is more or less swelling of the part, with an un-
natural mobility of the process and in some cases dis-
tinct grating. It is not unfrequent to have a wound in the
skin and a flow of glairy synovia from the opened joint.
In other cases, independently of fracture, there is inflam-
mation and enlargment of the bony eminence.
Treatment. Rest is imperative, as the fracture often
implicates the joint. If synovia escapes use a sugar of
lead lotion (1 oz. to 1 pt. water and 60 drops carbolic
~ acid), or even apply a blister around the joint, leaving the
space of an inch around the wound untouched. In other
cases rely on soothing applications, followed by blisters
when heat is diminished. Such cases usually do well, even
an open joint being harmless from the wound being at its
upper part. Even pieces of bone may be taken out with
portions of the joint surface and yet a satisfactory recovery
ensue.
FRACTURE OF THE POINT OF THE HOCK.
This may merely implicate the extreme summit of the
bone in young horses or it may occur lower down in the
middle of the bony process. There is much lameness and
difficulty in bringing the foot to the ground, the limb being
often kept raised and semi-flexed, and the detached por-
tion may be felt in front of the point of the hock, or a line
of tenderness may be detected across the middle of that
bone, detachment and grating being obviated by the strong
fibrous investment.
Treatment. If a portion has been detached from the
summit, place in slings, extend the joimt and replace it,
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retaining it in position by firm pads of tow placed in the
hollow in front of the bone and a strong starch or plaster
bandage extending from the hoof to beyond the hock.
When there is no detachment, soothe the parts till heat
and tenderness subside and then blister, allowing a long
period of rest.
FRACTURES OF THE OTHER HOCK BONES.
If these implicate the upper or true hock joint, they are
usually beyond remedy, but if the lower flat bones only,
they present symptoms like those of bone spavin, and may
recover by union of the small bones.
BONE SPAVIN.
This consists in disease (inflammation, ulceration, bony
déposit,) of the small flat bones in the lower and imner
Fig. 70.
Fig. 70—Bone Spavin affecting both inner and outer sides of the joint.
part of the hock joint, often implicating those of the outer
side as well. It may be manifested by local swelling,
heat and tenderness... or these may be altogether absent
as in cases of ulceration in the centre of the joint between
the flat bones—( Occult Spavin). The swelling, when it does
exist, 1s on the antero-internal aspect of the lower part of
the articulation, to be seen by standing about two feet from
the fore limb and looking across the front of the joint.
It is hard and to be distinguished from the tense, elastic
swelling caused by sprain of the inner branch of the
flexor tendon, and from the soft distended vein -(so-
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ealled blood spavin) which passes across this part of the
joint. The bony swelling may be more to the front, or
more backward on the inner side of the hock, or ii may
even show mainly on the outer side. It frequently im-
_ plicates the head of the shank-bone, and in bad cases may
extend up to the true hock-jomt and even abolish its
movement. Lameness, which is usually present in re-
cent cases and is the only symptom in occult spavin, is
shown by moving stiffly on the toe, when the horse is
turned from side to side of the stall. The same stiff walk-
ing on the toe is seen for the first few steps in starting,
after which it disappears, but there remains a stiffness
and lack of bending in the hock and stifle joints which a
little practice will enable one to recognize. ‘There is
sometimes, however, a jerking up of the limb as in string-
halt. Vf turned quickly in a narrow circle the animal drops
on the limb, carries it stiffly or even rests on the toe only.
Ti the lameness is only moderate it will usually disappear
when the patient becomes warmed up at work, hence the
propriety of placing him in a quiet stable for twenty
minutes before examination.
Treatment. Rest; a high-heeled shoe; fomentations
and laxatives are appropriate to the early inflammatory
stages. Later, counter-irritants are demanded. Blisters
of any kind will usually succeed. The hot iron is perhaps
even more efficient. Deep firing in points is especially
beneficial. Some cases will resist all these modes of treat-
ment, but recover after section of the flexor tendon which
passes over the swelling. Other methods are pursued
with variable success. All may do well in young horses with
no constitutional infirmity, and all will fail in some old
subjects.
INFLAMMATION OF THE TRUE HOCK JOINT. BOG SPAVIN.
Inflammation of the upper or principal joint of the hock,
where nearly all the movement takes place, occurs from
overwork, sprains, rheumatism, punctures, wounds, fract-
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ures, etc. There is a puffy fluctuating swelling with heat
and tenderness on the antero-internal side of the upper
part of the joint, where in the natural state there is a hol-
low or depression. There is also a similar swelling behind
in the seat of thorough-pin buat distinguishable in that it
can be pressed forward by compression, the anterior
swelling meanwhile filling up, but there results no swell-
ing below and behind the hock as in thorough-pin. The
lameness resembles that of bone spavin, but there is per-
haps more tendency to a jerking up of the limb. The
disease may go on to ulceration of the joint, to bony de-—
posit, and even to anchylosis with abolition of all move-
ment.
Treatment. Rest, and use a high-heeled shoe. In case
of very violent inflammation use soothing measures (fo-
mentation), and when extreme heat and tenderness have
subsided use blisters as for bone spavin, or still better, the
hot iron applied lightly at nearly a white heat.
Open joint is to be treated here as elsewhere, an active
blister being often of great advantage in arresting moye-
ment, closing the wound and abating inflammation.
Bog spavin is most obstinate in old animals and in
rheumatic constitutions with cracking of the joints im
starting a walk.
DROPSY OF THE HOCK JOINT. BOG SPAVIN.
An excessive secretion of joint-oil, from over-exertion,
or a dropsical effusion into the cavity of the joint pro-
duces a swelling having all the characters described above,
but without heat, tenderness or lameness. It may some-
times be benefited by a blister or even by a bandage wet
with some strong astringent lotion, but as it is only a
blemish and does not interfere with the animal’s useful-
ness it is best, as a rule, to let it alone.
BLOOD SPAVIN.
This is a dilatation of the vein which runs over the
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seats of bog and bone spavins and being harmless should
not be interfered with.
CURB.
This is a swelling, at first soft and doughy, but later
hard and resistant, in the median line of the limb and
just behind the lowest part of the hock joint. It is best
seen by standing to one side of the limb and looking di-
rectly across it. The injury is usually a sprain of the
tendon (perforatus) which plays over the front of the hock,
though in some bad cases the ligament of the hock be-
neath this is injured as well. There is heat and tender-
ness with more or less lameness and a tendency to knuckle
forward at the fetlock. Curby hocks are congenital in
some horses and cannot be looked on as disease, but
rather distortion.
Treatment. Keep quiet, put on a high-heeled shoe, and
apply hot fomentations or cooling lotions until inflamma-
tion moderates, when an active blister may be applied.
In some severe cases this may require to be repeated or
resort must be had to the hot iron, but this is altogether
exceptional.
STRING-HALT.
This is the name given to a habit of suddenly jerking
up the hind limb when raised from the ground. It may
be shown only in turning from side to side in the stall
and in starting, or it may appear in walking and trotting
as well. Again, the jerk may be comparatively slight, or
so extreme that the fetlock may even strike the belly.
Jts causes are unknown, though manifestly it is a reflex
nervous act and may perhaps be determined by a variety
of local injuries. If any such can be found they should
be corrected, but as a rule treatment is eminently unsat-
isfactory. The affection is usually aggravated with time
and the animal is sooner fatigued and worn out than other
horses.
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OTHER CAUSES OF LAMENESS.
See Lymphangitis, Embolism, Farcy, Dropsy, Grease,
Horse-pox, Mammitis, Rheumatism, Cramps, Palsy, Liver
Disease, etc.
CHAPTER XVIIL.
DISEASES OF THE FOOT.
General causes. Maxims for shoeing. Disease of the bony pulley and
flexor tendon of the foot. Pedal Sesamoiditis. Podotrochilitis. Navicular
disease. Coffin-joint lameness. Side-bones. Fractures of the bones of the
foot. Inflammation of the foot. Laminitis. Founder. Chronic Laminitis.
Convex soles. Pumice foot. Cracks in the hoof-wall. Sand-crack. Quar-
ter-crack. False quarter. Horny tumor of the Lamine. Corns. Bruises
of the sole. Pricks-and binding with nails. Incised wound of the sole.
Distortions of the coffin-bone. Contraction. Treads on the coronet. Fist-
ula of the coronet. Quittor. Powdery degeneration of the deep parts of the
wall. Seedy toe. Inflammation of the secreting membrane of the frog with
discharge. Thrush. Canker. Simple foot-rot in cattle and sheep. Con-
tagious foot-rot. Foot-rot from Tuberculosis.
Nearly all of these pedal diseases are directly or in-
directly the result of faults in shoeing, and the absence of
care for the feet. Here, accordingly, it would be appro-
priate to describe the structure and functions of the foot,
and to lay down the rational principles of shoeing. But
our space forbids more than the merest mention of points
which are absolutely indispensable to the understanding
of what is to follow.
The internal frame-work, or skeleton of the horse’s foot,
consists of three bones :—the lower end of the coronet
(small pastern) bone, which corresponds to the upper
margin of the hoof; the coffin (pedal) bone, which is im-
bedded inside the hoof and has a similar imperfectly con-
ical outline; and a long narrow pulley-like bone (small
sesamoid, or navicular) extended across the back part of
the coffin-bone, its upper aspect forming a prolongation
backward of the joint surface, while its lower face is coy-
o1l*
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ered by fibro-cartilage, and constitutes a pulley, over which
plays the flexor tendon of the foot. These are subject
to like injuries with similar parts elsewhere. Thus the
bones are liable to fracture, to absorption from pressure,
to ulceration, to bony outgrowths, to induration, to soften-
ing, to death and exfoliation, in connection with pricks
with nails or other sharp bodies. The joint is subject to
inflammation, 1n connection with wounds, rheumatism,
overwork, etc. The flexor tendon is exposed to sprains,
and, together with its synovial sheath and the sesamoid
bone, to inflammation, ulceration, and the formation of
new structures, which impair or destroy the functions of
the part.
The posterior third of the hoof has for its frame-work
an elastic cushion, which makes continuation of the bones
backward, without maintaining their rigidity. This cush-
ion comprises two lateral fibro-cartilages that extend
backward from the heels of the coffin-bone, and the upper
elastic borders of which may be felt under the skin, just
above the hoof, in the region of the quarter; also in the
median line and continuous laterally with the cartilages,
a thick pad of white and elastic fibres, corresponding in
position to the horny frog, and known as the elastic frog.
These are subject to inflammation, suppuration, ulcera-
tion, ossification, fractures, necrosis, etc. In its healthy
condition this cushion obviates the shocks, jars, concus-
sions, bruises (corns), fractures and lameness which
would necessarily result were this region occupied by
unyielding bone. It further allows of expansion of the
heel under continuous use and application of moisture,
and its contraction under prolonged disuse and drying.
Covering this bony and elastic frame-work is a dense
fibrous net-work, with interspaces and canals for the pas-
sage of blood-vessels and nerves, firmly bound to the bony
and elastic structures by its deeper surface and to the hoof
by its superficial. On the outer surface of this fibrous
net-work is the membrane secreting the horn. The part
Diseases of the Foot 367
which forms the hoof-wall is prolonged as a band around
the upper margin of the wall, and from the heels forward
above the cleft at each side of the frog. It is shaggy
throughout with soft conical processes (villi), from 4 to 2
lines in length, which extend into the horny tubes and
secrete them. ‘The membrane forming the sole is covered
by similar villi which pass into the horny tubes of the sole,
and that covering the elastic frog has corresponding but
smaller villi. Between the fibrous net-work and the inner
suriace of the hoof-wall and bars, the mode of union is
by a series of 500 to 600 leaves (laminz) projecting on an
average 14 or 2 lines, and each having on its lateral aspects
from 30 to 60 microscopic secondary laminez. These are
interleaved with the same number of primary and second-
ary horny laminz forming an extent of connecting suriace
which would beget incredulity if named. These inner
fibrous and vascular lamine secrete the horny laminz that
are interleaved with them, besides giving off an amount of
moisture, which being absorbed by the cells of the adjacent
horny wall, serves to keep that soft, yielding and tough.
So intimate is the union between each of these secreting
surfaces and the horn covering it, that the fibrous net-work
will often be torn from the bone, rather than the horn from
the sensitive parts. This is above all true of the lamine.
This close connection further renders active inflammation
in these structures acutely painful, for there being no loose
tissue to yield to the exudation, it compresses these dense
structures and violently tears them apart. Thus extensive
effusions of serum or pus endanger separation and shed-
ding of the hoof. A less acute inflammation of any of
those secreting surfaces leads to the production of un-
healthy horny growths. Thus disease of the secreting
membrane at the coronet will determine a bulging, ragged,
brittle line of horn from above downward on the hoof-
wall, or, what is worse, a crack or fissure extending to the
quick. Disease of the laminz will determine the forma-
tion of a great mass of soft, spongy, yielding horn between
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the horny laminz and the hoof-wall, causing a falling in
of the wall anteriorly, and a descent of the margin of the
coffin-bone so that it will press upon and even perforate
the sole (pumice foot). In other cases there is merely a
circumscribed horny growth pressing inward on the quick
at a particular point (keraphyllocele). If the secreting sur-
face of the sole is involved similar horny tumors may be
formed, as in corns. Disease of the secreting membrane
of the frog may determine an unhealthy secretion from the
cleft (thrush) or an excessive growth and loss of cohesion
of the horny fibres (canker).
Tn addition to these disorders originating in the deeper
structures we have a further list that take their origin in
unnatural states of the horn. And for these the current
modes of shoeing are mainly chargeable.
At all points the hoof undergoes a steady condensation
from its inner to its outer layers. In a transverse section
of the hoof-wall the deeper tubes are open, spacious and
surrounded by soft, yielding, elastic horn, while those
near the surface are exceedingly minute and surrounded
by a far greater amount of dense, hard and exceedingly
resistant horny matter. The outer surface is especially
close in its texture, and as the tubes run through the
whole length of the wall to its lower or wearing surface,
- where they are closed by attrition, comparatively little ex-
halation of moisture can take place from this part of the
horn in its healthy state. But it is far different when the
dense surface layer has been removed by the rasp, and
the open ends of the tubes exposed all over the sur-
face of the wall. Then evaporation and drying go on
rapidly, the hoof becomes hard and brittle and follows its
constant tendency, when dry, to turn in at the heels and
coronet, causing absorption of the parts beneath and lay-
ing the foundation of disease.
The sole and frog naturally increase in density from
the quick outward, but the horn breaks up into plates be-
fore becoming detached, the plates being separated from
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each other and from the tough elastic horn above by lay-
ers of powdery horn, which serve along with the plates to
protect from bruises and check evaporation. In their
healthy state, therefore, sole and frog are as well pro-
tected against evaporation, drying and shrinking as is the
wall. But the case is altered when, with buttress or
drawing-knife, these native protectors are removed and
the tough elastic horn is laid bare. Then each horny
tube exhales its moisture, the horn dries and shrinks,
drawing inward the lower borders of the hoof-wall and
pressing upward, often painfully, on the quick. Nor can
the sole any longer bear contact with hard bodies, but
bruises and injuries are the constant result.
The injury in both cases may be lessened somewhat by
the use of suitable hoof ointments but the process may be
likened to that of supplying a man with a wooden leg
after you have ruthlessly cut off his own sound one. The
substitute may permit of the limb being used but the dif-
ference, in utility, safety and durability, is almost infinite.
Among other injuries by shoeing may be mentioned un-
equal strain thrown on different parts of the hoof for want
of a uniform bearing on the shoe; bruises of the sole
from the shoe being improperly fitted, or left on too long
until it has grown out over the shoe, or been drawn for-
ward by the excessive growth at the toe until the heel
settles on the sole between the wall and the bars; misdi-
rection of the bones and joints by leaving one side of the
~ hoof much higher than the other, or by leaving the toe or
heel unnaturally long or short; pricks and binding by
nails, etc., ete. Long-continued compulsory idleness in a
stall, exposure to prolonged moisture, with intervals of
drying, and continued contact with decomposing liquids,
and to the irritating ammoniacal fumes of dung and urine
are further destructive conditions for the horn.
Maxims for Shoeing. The proper care, preparation and
preservation of the foot is of far more consequence than
the form of the shoe. The hoof must be preserved from
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knife and rasp, excepting the line around its margin and
lower surface on which the shoe is to rest. This may be
pared or rasped, as a rule, until the elastic horn of the
sole is reached, and forms, with the lower border of the
wall, a continuous smooth bearing surface of a breadth
equal to perhaps one and a half times, or twice the thick-
ness of the latter. But this only in a perfect foot. One
that has a ragged furrow between the sole and wall can-
not be treated in this way. Both sides, inner and outer,
must be left perfectly uniform in height. The height of
heel and toe must be determined by the natural form of
the foot, excess and deficiency being alike avoided. Asa
rule paring has to be done mainly or alone at the toe, but
in some cases the heels grow excessively as well. While
avoiding paring out of the heels and bars as the prolific
cause of corns, we must equally avoid the retention of
hard flakes of horn in this situation, where, imprisoned
by the hoof-wall, the bar and the shoe, they act as foreign
bodies and bruise the heel, as would a stone or a mass of
hardened clay. That part of the sole which is uncovered
by the shoe may have the surface-flakes removed with a
blunt instrument, but should never be touched with a
knife. The frog need never be touched, though there is
no harm in removing ragged hanging shreds and patches.
The sharp edges of the hoof-wall should be slightly
rounded with a file to prevent splitting. The shoe should
be of a weight proportionate to that of the horse and to
the work expected of him, and of a breadth of web
adapted to the protection demanded by the nature of the
sole. Its upper or applied surface may be perfectly
level, unless when an unhealthy convex sole demands that
it shall be leveled off toward its internal border. Its
outer border should exactly correspond to the margin of
the hoof-wal!l, without projecting beyond it, or requiring
that the wall be cut down to its dimensions. When ap-
plied the upper surface should fit accurately at all points
to the hoof. Bad as it is for horn to be seared, it is bet-
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ter to apply the shoe, momentarily, at a dull red heat,
that any imperfection in fitting may be detected and rem-
edied, than to hurry on a shoe which bears unequally on
different pomts. Ii the sole joins the wall without a
break, the two forming one continuous bearing surface,
and uf both are of their natural thickness, the shoes are
better to be coarsely fullered and the nails driven low,
the fullering becoming finer and the nails being driven
lower as we proceed from before backward, especially on
the inner side. When the nails have been drawn up and
riveted any roughness of the rivets may be removed with
a file, but this should not touch the hoof if it is possible
to avoid it. In turning down the clinches better make a
slight depression beneath each with the point of the draw-
ing-knife than an extended transverse furrow with the
rasp, as is usually done. Remove the shoes before the
hoofs have overgrown them so as to allow -them to settle
on the sole, and above all before the growth of the toe
has drawn the shoe forward and let the heel press upon
that part of the sole.
DISEASE OF THE BONY PULLEY AND FLEXOR TENDON OF THE
FOOT. PEDAL SESAMOIDITIS. PODOTROCHILITIS. NAYIC-
ULAR DISHASE.
This affection, misnamed Coffin-joint Disease, implicates
the lower surface of the small sesamoid bone of the foot,
its synovial sac and ligaments, and the flexor tendon
which plays over it.
Causes. It is especially the disease of fast horses, and
may be largely charged to friction between the tendon
and its bony pulley, to overwork and concussion. But it
may also depend on injuries to the foot from bad shoeing ;
undue paring; setting in of the shoe on the sole; im-
prisoned flakes of horn acting as foreign bodies; bruises
from stones or hardened clay; rasping, hardening and
contraction of the foot; drying and shrinking of the foot
from standing too long idle in the stall; injury to the
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quick from uneven bearing of the shoe in connection with
misfitting shoes or breaking of the hoof-wall; injuries
from nails driven into the quick or picked up on the road ;
a rheumatic constitution; Impaired nutrition with in-
creased elimination of phosphates from the system ; or an
extension of disease from the digestive organs as in an
over-feed of grain, or a drink of cold water when hot and
fatigued, ete.
Symptoms. Pointing the affected foot eight or ten
inches in advance of the other, with the heel slightly
raised when standing quietly in the stable. This symptom
Fig. 71.
Fig. 71— Ulceration of the small sesamoid bone ot the foot, and distorted
heels of the coffin-bone.
may last for months before lameness is shown. Stepping
short and on the toe with a great tendency to stumble
when first moved from the stable, which lameness may
entirely disappear after going a mile or two. It is worse
when cooled off after a long drive, but it may appear in-
termittently while at work, as occasional stumbling or
dropping on the sound foot for some time at first. The
toe of the shoe is more worn than other parts owing to the
peculiar gait. The foot feels hot, especially in its poste-
rior part, and in acute cases the soft parts may bulge over
the coronet and the pastern arteries throb with unusual
force. The foot too, soon diminishes in size, especially in
.
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the quarters and heels, where the heat, drying and disuse
are greatest. Testing the margin of the hoof with pincers
will not elicit tenderness, unless there is accompanying
disease of the lateral parts of the foot (corns, bruises,
pricks, absorption or distortion of the heels of the pedal
bone, side bones, etc.,) but tapping the sole with a hammer
on each side of the body of the frog, or striking the wall
in the region of the quarter will cause the patient to flinch.
Pressure with the thumb over the middle of the flexor
tendon, on its inner side or on its outer, as deeply as can
be reached in the hollow of the heel, the foot being bent
back, causes suffering. There is more or less wasting of
the muscles of the limb from disuse, but this is especially
marked on the breast, above the elbow and outside the
shoulder-blade. Hence the disease is usually referred to
the shoulder as sweeny. It is most readily confounded
with sprain of the flexor tendon behind the head of the
small pastern bone, but is easily distinguished by the heat
and contraction of the heels and the tenderness of the
centre of the sole and the quarters to strokes of the ham-
mer. To distinguish it from other diseases of the feet
I must refer to these individually.
Treatment. Usually unsatisfactory except in certain
recent cases. First soothe inflammatory action, give a lax-
ative (aloes), remove the shoes, shorten the toe, and keep
standing from morning to night in a puddle of wet clay
without stones or gravel, in which the animal will sink to
the top of the hoof. At night place in a comfortable dry
stall with a poultice on the diseased foot. Unless the in-
flammation is severe, apply a mild blister to the front and
sides of the pastern. If not applied at first this should be
resorted to as soon as inflammation moderates, and is to
be repeated when the effects of the first pass off. Cases
that resist this treatment will frequently recover under the
action of a seton passed through the frog, and a run for a
month or two in a damp pasture free from stones. The
recovery may be a restoration to perfect soundness, when
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the surface of the bone has not been diseased, or it may
be a removal of lameness in connection with a union of
the bone and tendon when the surface of the former has
been the seat of disease. In the last named case, the
recovery is likely to be the more permanent, while many
cases of apparent recovery, in the early stages, are followed
by relapse. The frog seton is introduced at the hollow of
the heel and brought out at the body of the frog, but as
there is much danger of wounding the tendon or bursa in
incompetent hands, it can only be safely undertaken by
the veterinary anatomist.
All other methods failing, resort is often had to cutting
the nerves passing to the foot, so as to remove all sensi-
bility. This should never be done unless the feet can be
carefully picked out and sponged every time the animal
returns from work, and kept covered with thick wet swabs
all the time he stands in the stable. Neglect is sure to be
followed by rapidly advancing disease in the bone, exten-
sion of inflammation to the structures around, abundant
exudation, and destruction of bones and joints. Even
with the best of care this will occur in the advanced stages
of the disease, unless indeed the bone and tendon grow
together. For description of newrotomy see larger work.
SIDE BONES.
These consist in extensive ossification, from the heels
of the coffin-bone into the lateral cartilages. Their great
cause is improper shoeing; cutting away of the bars or
sole, so that the wall turns inward and bruises the sole;
pressure of the shoe on the sole whether from misfitting or
from being left too long on; uneven bearing of the shoe,
throwing too much strain on one part ; pricking or pinching
with nails driven too near the quick; the pressure of the
dry hard horn after undue paring or rasping, and the con-
tinuous irritation which attends the partial separation of
sole and wall. They are especially common in heavy
horses with upright pasterns and the toe shortened rela-
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tively to the heels or shod with high heel calkins, so as
to increase concussion in action.
Symptoms. Lameness with a short stilty step, and a
tendency to stumble from the attempt to avoid shock on
the heels. The pasterns are upright and the heels often
deep and strong. Pressure on the prominence above the
hoof at the quarter, detects tenderness and a hard unyield-
ing structure instead of the usual yielding elastic gristle.
Bruises of the heel (corns) with bloody discoloration of
the horn is almost a constant result of extensive side-
bones, the sensitive sole being pinched between the bone
and hoof.
Fig. 72—Ossified lateral cartilages. Side bones.
Treatment. Subdue any existing inflammation by rest,
blisters or even firing at the coronets, and apply a bar
shoe, the bar resting on the bulbs of the frog, and keep
the hoof-wall, at the heels, rasped lower than the rest of
the bearing surface, so that daylight can be seen between
this part and the shoe. The same shoeing must be kept
up when the horse is put to work or he will soon fall lame
again from bruising of the heels.
Excision of the ossified cartilage and neurotomy have
been resorted to with success, but are inapplicable to
most cases.
FRACTURES OF THE BONES OF THE FOOT
The small sesamoid may be broken after it has been
weakened by superficial and internal absorption. The
pedal bone may give way from concussion when previously
softened by disease, or in cases of blows on the surface,
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laceration and detachment of horn, or wounds with nails
or other sharp bodies implicating the bone. The sudden
and extreme lameness following an evident injury or a
long-standing disease may arouse suspicions of this and
if grating can be heard the case is certain. Tveatment is
rarely successful, excepting in circumscribed fractures
from wounds, in which case the detached bone must be
removed.
INFLAMMATION OF THE FOOT. LAMINITIS. FOUNDER.
This consists in inflammation of the sensitive parts of
the foot, but predominating in the anterior portion of the
laminz, where the greatest strain comes in standing.
Causes. The disease may arise from direct injury as in
over-exertion on hard roads, blows, bruises or freezing of
the feet, pricks or binding with nails, continued injury from
a badly applied shoe, or the constant straim upon the feet
during a long sea voyage. It may also occur from a sud-
den chill, from drinking cold water when heated and
fatigued, from overloading of the stomach with grain,
from muco-enteritis, the result of an over-dose of purgative
medicine, or from diseases of the lungs (pneumonia, bron-
chitis). Small and deformed feet and large flat ones often
suffer. Horses with heavy fat carcasses are also predis-
posed.
Symptoms. When not caused by direct injury to the
foot, it is usually ushered in by fever and general stiffness
and soreness of the surface, with or without shivering,
but independent of any tenderness of the foot. If not
relieved these are soon followed by tenderness of the
foot, usually predominating at the anterior part, but some-
times settling in the heel and causing pedal sesamoid-
itis. When acute inflammation is developed in the lam-
inz of the fore feet the horse is in a high fever, with
full hard pulse, excited breathing, distended nostrils, ex-
tension of the fore feet forward, so that they rest only on
the heels, and bringing of the hind feet far forward be-
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neath the belly, to bear as much of the weight as possible.
Tf moved, the horse groans, sways himself back on his
hind parts, and drags the fore feet on their heels, or bal-
ancing himself on the hind, lifts both fore feet at once
and brings them down again on their heels. The affected
feet are warm, even hot, and the animal refuses to have
them lifted because of the pain consequent on standing
on one. If they are struck with a hammer the animal
winces and groans. The arteries on the pasterns throb
violently. The hairs of the mane and tail may often be
pulled from their follicles, showing the general implication
of the skin.
Tf one fore foot only is affected it is kept raised and
advanced. Ii the hind feet, they are advanced beneath
the belly, and the fore feet carried as far backward as
possible to bear the greater part ot the weight.
Treatment. In the initial stage, with general stiffness
but no special tenderness of the feet over other parts,
vascular and nervous tension may be relieved and the
disease suddenly cut short by full doses of sedatives (lo-
belia, tobacco, aconite,) with warm clothing to encourage
perspiration. Even at a more advanced stage when the
feet are becoming congested and tender, the same may be
resorted to, the feet being enveloped in warm poultices,
and the animal encouraged to lie down by supplying a
clean comfortable bed of straw. Or in place of poulticing
the feet, we may seek to improve the circulation by walk-
ing without shoes on a soft newly plowed field, the heels
having been slightly lowered, if very high, to allow press-
ure on the sole, or the patient may even be walked ona
hard surface after a long bar shoe with broad web and a
slight rising at heel and toe (rocker fashion) has been ap-
plied. But walking can never be resorted to when the
extreme tenderness and fever show that active inflamma-
tion has set in. In this case a mild laxative (aloes) must
be given (unless already purging) and followed up by aco-
nite or other sedatives, the feet must be enveloped in large
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poultices and the animal encouraged to lie down. Should
he refuse to lie down the hoof-wall should be rasped down
to let the sole come in contact with the ground. In severe
cases the coronet may be scarified with a sharp lancet and
the foot placed in a bucket of warm water or fomented with
the same to favor bleeding. In the course of two days, if the
suffering, fever and local tenderness are increasing rather
than abating, the sole may be thinned and opened at the
toe, so as to evacuate any serous exudation and limit the
separation of the horn from the quick, the poultices being
kept on after as before. In the course of ten days ora
fortnight the inflammation should have subsided far
enough to warrant the application of a blister to the pas-
tern and an ointment to the hoof, while the patient is
turned out on a soft wet pasture or kept standing a part
of his time on wet clay.
CHRONIC LAMINITIS. CONVEX SOLES. PUMICE FEET.
If the inflammation persists in a slight form, an excess-
ive growth of soft, spongy horn takes place in front of the
lamine at the toe, separating the coffin-bone from the
hoof-wall and allowing its anterior border to press upon
the sole or even to perforate it. The hoof-wall becomes
covered with rings usually running together at the toe,
where it bulges out below and falls in above. Complete
restoration cannot be expected in the worst cases of this
kind, but much may be done for the majority. Put ona
thick broad webbed bar shoe beveled toward the inner
side on its upper surface and thinner at the heel than the
toe, dress the sole and wall daily with hot tar, apply gen-
tle blisters around the coronet, and keep in a very soft
damp pasture. The new growth of horn may grow down
almost perfect in appearance, but it retains an undesira-
ble brittleness.
CRACKS IN THE HOOF-WALL. SAND-CRACK. QUARTER-CRACK.
The predisposition to this is usually to be found in
rasping and drying of the hoof-wall, in uneven bearing of
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the shoe, in alternate soaking of the hoof in water and
drying, and in treads or other temporary wounds or inju-
ries to the coronet. ‘The crack extends from the coronet
downward, for a variable distance, in the direction of the
horny fibres. attended by lameness, the laminz are
usually being pinched between the edges of the crack, the
irritation is perhaps further increased by the presence of
sand and dirt, and fungous growths may appear in the
sore.
Treatment. A caretully applied bar shoe haying an
even bearing all round the foot; a nail driven through the
edges of the crack and riveted so as to hold them together ;
a transverse groove, ? to 1 inch in length, cut to the quick
just above the upper end of the crack, and active stimu-
lation or shght blistering of the coronet above this point
will usually succeed in obtaining an unbroken growth
from above, and when the crack has grown off at the lower
border the hoof is perfect. But the inflammation will
sometimes demand poulticing; the nail may have to be
replaced by a metallic plate fixed to the hoof on each side
of the crack by screws not exceeding a line in length; a
gaping crack may require filing with gutta-percha or
other hard substance to keep the edges immovable; or
finally, it may be requisite in bad cases to cut outa Y-
shaped piece of horn, the apex corresponding to the mid-
dle of the crack and the two limbs to the coronet on the
two sides of the crack.
FALSE QUARTER.
This is similar to a sand-crack in appearance but caused
by such destruction of the secreting structure at the top
of the hoof that it is impossible to obtain a growth of
horn to fill up the interval. Palliation by careful shoeing
is all that can be accomplished.
HORNY TUMOR OF THE LAMINZE.
This is a result of sand-crack, the irritation leading to
an increased secretion of horn on the inner surface of the
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hoof-wall, which in its turn may press on the quick and
cause lameness. With or without any remains of sand-
crack there is tenderness on pinching that part of the
hoof, and when the shoe is removed and the hoof pared,
there is observed a semicircular encroachment on the sole
by a white spongy horn extending in from the hoof-wall.
Wet swabs on the foot and rest may subdue any inflam-
mation, but should lameness persist, the only resort is to
cut out a triangular portion of the wall including the tu-
mor, poultice the part, then cover with tar and wait for
the horn to grow down in a healthy condition.
CORNS.
These are at first simple bruises of that part of the sole
included between the bars and the wall at the heel, but
~ later there is often an increased production of horn and
the formation of a horny tumor which presses injuriously
on the quick. In other cases the bruise causes active
inflammation and the formation of matter, which if denied
escape below, will burrow toward the coronet or less fre-
quently around the toe and give rise to disease in the
deeper fibrous network, the cartilage or the bone. In
these last conditions it usually results in a fistula (quittor).
In other cases the corn is pared out as is supposed, but
the heels, having lost the mechanical support of the sole,
curl forward and inward, repeat the bruise continually,
keep up the inflammation and suppuration and what is
equivalent to an open sore in the heel. The irritation
often produces absorption of the margin of the bone at
the heels with bony deposits above or below, and ossifica-
tion of the lateral cartilage, a condition which almost
necessarily perpetuates the bruises or corns (see side bones).
Corns may exist in either heel but are usually in the inner
or weaker one, and prevail above all in flat feet with low
weak heels.
Symptoms. Lameness with a tendency to point, with the
heel slightly raised when at rest, and a short, stilty, stum-
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bling step when moved. Pinching the affected heel with
pincers or tapping it with a hammer causes wincing. If
the shoe is removed and the heel pared out, the horn may
be seen to be blood-stained, but unless this is seen on
removing the flakes, no one should allow curiosity to lead
to a deeper search. If suppuration has taken place the
tenderness is extreme, often causing the animal to keep
the foot raised and scarcely daring to touch the ground
with the toe, a tender swelling usually appears at the
coronet above the affected heel, and pinching or ham-
mering of the heel is unendurable. A horny tumor may
be ened by symptoms similar to those shown in
keraphyllocele.
Treatment. Ifa recent bruise and uncomplicated, apply
either a bar shoe or a common one, but rasp down the
bearing surface of the affected heel to avoid pressure as
advised for side bones, and place the feet in water or keep
the wall moist with wet swabs, and the sole with oil meal
or clay packing. When tenderness has subsided, smear
the hoof with ointment and work carefully. Remove the
shoe early enough to prevent pressure on that heel, and in
preparing the foot retain the strength of the heel by pre-
serving the elastic horn of the sole between wall and bar.
Never allow this to be pared and weakened unless it be to
evacuate matter or sand, or for the removal of a horny
tumor.
If suppuration has taken place, pare down the heel
- until the matter escapes, remove all horn detached from
the quick, and pare the horn around this to a thin edge,
poultice until the surface is smooth, dry and not at all
tender, then apply a bar shoe, a leather sole, and a
stuffing of tow and tar or crude turpentine (pine pitch).
No pressure should be allowed on this heel until the sole
has grown up to its natural level, as a support. Horny
tumors may be removed by paring out and treating as
above advised, until the sole attains its natural growth.
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tion of the heel, of the foot bone or ulceration of the
lateral cartilage, these must be scraped or cut off before
improvement is to be expected. If connected with side
bones, they are liable to be kept up by frequent pinching
of the quick between the bone and horn, and demand
careful shoeing to avoid pressure on the heel. Some
cases may be benefited by cutting out the side bone.
BRUISES OF THE SOLE.
Whether resulting from badly applied shoes, stones,
accumulated gravel or dried mud, these are to be recog-
nized, like corns, by pinching the hoof or tapping it with
a hammer, and are to be treated on precisely the same
principles, relieving the pressure when necessary, soothing
the parts, opening when matter has formed, followed up by
poulticing and bar shoe with leather sole and tar stuffing.
GRAVELING is closely allied to the above, dirt having
worked up through the unnatural groove between the wall
and sole, and set up suppuration. Except in the careful
removal of the foreign elements, treatment does not dif-
fer from that of suppurating bruise or corn.
PRICKS AND BINDING WITH NAILS.
These usually occur in thin weak feet or such as have
been reduced by over-cutting and rasping till there is
little to hold the nails; in the case of nail stubs being left
in the hoof from a former shoeing so as to turn the new
nails in a wrong direction, and when the blacksmith is too
stupid to recognize the difference between the stroke of
driving a nail into the soft spongy horn and the hard firm
outer horn of the wall. Simple binding with the nails
may cause intermittent or persistent lameness, and there
is flinching on striking the heads of the nails or the wall
with a hammer, or in compressing the margin of the hoof
with pincers. If matter forms there are all the local ten-
derness and inability to use the foot spoken of in suppu-
rating corn. In simple pricks an examination of the nail
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clinches usually reveals one higher than the rest, and if
this is a posterior one it is all the more suspicious. A
nail may be driven too near the quick and yet not cause
lameness for a week or two, until some slight shifting in
the position of the shoe causes it to press painfully.
Treatment. In sight cases the withdrawal of the nail
may be all that is necessary. In more severe it may be
requisite to punch the nail holes nearer to the toe, to
drive the nails low, to apply cold water or other soothing
agent to the foot and to rest for a day or two. If matter
has formed the course of the offending nail must be fol-
lowed with the drawing-knife, the pus evacuated and the
parts treated afterward as in suppurating corn. If the
bone has been reached and a dead scale exists on the
surface this must be cut down upon and removed.
INCISED AND PUNCTURED WOUNDS OF THE SOLE.
That part of the foot which is uncovered by the shoe is
hable to penetrating wounds from nails, glass and other
sharp bodies on the ground, as well as nails, pitchforks,
broken planks, ete., against which they may kick. Such
wounds are dangerous according to their depth and posi-
tion. If from a clean nail, and no deeper than just to
penetrate the quick, they are usually of little consequence,
and a little tar or gutta-percha may be used to fill the
wound, if any, until it is seen whether inflammation will
ensue. If deeper, a vertical wound will be most serious
in the middle third of the scle, because of the implication
of the flexor tendon and small sesamoid bone, and the
risk of pedal sesamoiditis, or even an open coffin-joint result-
ing. If in the anterior third, the danger les mainly in
injury to the lower surface of the coffin-bone, with death
and removal of a thin scale which must be thrown off
before the wound can close. If in the posterior third the
elastic frog alone is wounded and will heal very readily.
_ Treatment will vary accordingly. The simple removal
of the foreign body may suffice. Cold applications may be
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needed, matter may require an opening to escape, or the
bone may have to be scraped to expose a living sur-
face. But in wounds of the tendon or joint the foot must
be wrapped in cloths, the heels raised if standing, and a
constant stream of cold water kept up on the part, by
having a caoutchouc tube attached to the limb and foot
and acting like a syphon to bring the water from a bucket
at a higher level. ‘This may require to be kept up day
and night for several days. The subsequent treatment is
like that for pedal sesamoiditis.
DISTORTIONS OF THE COFFIN-BONE.
Under this head may be named a great variety of de-
formities, the result of disease. Thus in long continued
inflammation of the laminz the fibrous net-work in front
of the coflin-bone is partly ossified, giving this part a con-
vex aspect from above downward. Continued irritation
of the sole will equally develop a bony enlargement which
is associated with a circumscribed convexity and tender-
ness of the sole. The pressure of a horny tumor, whether
on the laminz, the quarter or elsewhere, corresponding to
and pressing on the bone, will cause absorption and de-
pression of the bone to an equal extent. The pressure
on the anterior border of the coffiin-bone, when separated
from the hoof-wall and resting upon the sole, leads to
extensive absorption and rounding of this part with a
bony deposit above, on its front. Persistent irritation
along the lateral borders of the foot from binding with
nails, or the separation of the wall and sole, with or with.
out the presence of gritty matters in the groove, causes
absorption and rounding of the sharp lateral margins of
the coffin-bone. But the heels of the coffin-bone are the
parts which above all suffer in this way. Bruises from
setting in of the shoe, from gritty matter or hard clay,
especially if a furrow has been formed between wall and
sole, from curving forward and inward of the heels when
the supporting sole has been pared out in search of corns
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or to prevent their formation ; pressure from curving in of
the wall which has been allowed to grow too long without
support from the sole, or has been rasped till it dries or
withers ; uneven bearing of the shoe; all undue paring of
heels and quarters contribute to produce absorption and
rounding of the naturally sharp border of the coffin-bone
at its heels, bony deposits above and below, induration,
softening, ulceration or death of more or less of the bony
tissue, and permanent unsoundness.
The existence of such distortions must be ascertained
- from the unnatural appearance of the hoof; the signs of
a horny tumor; a rugged unhealthy hoof-wall; a flat or
convex appearance of the sole in whole or in part; a
deep furrow between sole and wall; wasting and diminu-
tion of the foot as a whole, but especially of the heels and
quarters ; and it may be side bone or fistula. There is
more or less tenderness of the feet and stilty careful gait,
or there may be extreme lameness. It will be observed
that these distortions are usually connected with some
other disease of the feet, and the symptoms will vary
-according to the nature of the accompanying lesion.
Such changes of bony structure are permanent as a rule,
so that our attention must be given, first to the removal
of any unnatural condition which has caused and is per-
petuating them, and then to secure such a system of shoe-
ing as will allow of the utilization of the animal in spite
of the acquired deformities. The hoof must be encouraged,
by ointments, stimulants to the coronets, and perhaps a
cool moist pasture, to grow as nearly as possible to the
natural condition. Then the shoe must be applied so as
to secure the greatest extent of bearing surface, without
injury to the deformed and weak points. In many cases
a bar shoe is wanted to avail of the frog for bearing weight ;
a leather sole may be necessary in others; a broad web to
the shoe, on one or on both sides, may be essential for
protection ; in other cases the upper surface must be bey-
eled ; in still others the nail-holes must be stamped only
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around the toes; clips, small nails, artificial repairs of
breaches in the hoof-wall may be resorted to, but it is
beyond the scope of this work to do more than hint at
what can only be accomplished by a combination of
anatomical knowledge, mechanical skill and manual dex-
terity.
CONTRACTION.
This is a great bugbear of horsemen, since it exists in
nearly all the affections of the foot. It is usually a result
and symptom of disease, attending as we have seen on -
many different maladies, in which the hoof shrinks from
the heat, dryness and disuse. It may also occur from
simple idleness in a stall; from overgrowth of the hoof-
wall, which curls in for want of support from the sole and
moisture from the lamine ; from hardening and shrinking
of the heels as the result of rasping, or of alternate soak-
ings and drying; from undue paring of the heels, bars
and frog, thus removing the natural supports; and from
the effects of the shoe and nails in preventing the normal
expansion in growth, and in removing the frog and sole
from use and pressure. Thus produced it is not a direct
cause of lameness and feet can be shown in which the two
heels overlap each other without such a result. Yet such
contraction implies wasting or absorption of the internal
sensitive structures, diminution of the basis of support,
with a corresponding weakness and tendency to disease
under slighter determining causes than in the healthy
state. The simplest treatment is to remove the shoes
round the edges of the hoof-wall to prevent splitting, and
keep standing sixteen hours a day, for two or three weeks,
in a puddle of wet clay, then use hoof ointments freely,
and apply a shoe with equal bearing throughout and with-
out any bevel on its upper surface.
TREADS ON THE CORONET.
These are especially common in winter when the shoes
are sharpened for frost. They are dangerous because of
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the frequent implication of the horn-secreting structures,
so as to cause false quarter, and from the tendency of
matter to burrow beneath the horn and in the supporting
fibrous net-work to form a fistula. They should be
thoroughly cleansed from all sand and mud, the inflamma-
tion subdued by soothing applications (wet bandages or
weak astringent lotions) and care taken to prevent the
_ further introduction of dirt. To this end a simple cover-
ing of tar will sometimes suffice, but in other cases a care-
fully. applied bandage is essential. Muddy roads should
be avoided until healing is complete.
FISTULA OF THE CORONET. QUITTOR.
Causes. Treads and other wounds of the.coronet; sup-
purating corns, bruises, pricks and wounds of the sole;
suppuration from the working in of sand or gravel between
the sole and wali; irritation from sand-cracks and false
quarters, and disease of the coffin-bone or its cartilage.
Symptoms. Following on some one of the above dis-
orders there is a tender swelling at the coronet, which
bursts, discharging a more or less whitish serous fluid and
shows no tendency to dry up nor close. If probed it is
found to lead into one or more small canals in the fibrous
net-work which covers the bone and elastic structures of
the foot, and it may be to diseased or dead portions of
bone or gristle.
Treatment. Jf the inflammation is very violent the foot
should be enveloped in a large poultice and a laxative ad-
ministered. When moderated, inject a slightly caustic
solution in the direction of each canal and as far as possi-
ble. (Bichloride of mercury 5 grains, spirits of wine 1 02z.,
muriatic acid 20 drops). Less depends on the composi-
tion of the mixture than on the application. Inject it
three times the first day, twice the second and once a day
thereafter. When the discharge has ceased and the wound
is almost superficial, stop the injection and apply a simple
dressing of wet tow. In aggravated cases with disease of
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the lateral cartilage or bone, these may require to be cut
out or scraped, but our limits will not permit a further
notice of this.
POWDERY DEGENERATION OF THE DEEP PARTS OF THE WALL.
SEEDY TOE.
The result of uneven bearing of the shoe, the formation
of furrows between the sole and wall, direct violence, as
blows, or the too tight hammering of clips, etc., this is
manifested by an irregularity or dryness of the affected
part of the wall, and the formation of a cavity, filled with
horn powder between the lamine and the wall of the hoof.
Clear out the cavity until the tough healthy horn is
reached, then fill with warm tar and shoe carefully to give
a uniform bearing. A clip may be useful as a support to
the undermined horn but it is destructive to hammer it
tight. The dressing must be repeated at each shoeing
until the cavity is filled up.
INFLAMMATION OF THE SECRETING MEMBRANE OF THE FROG
WITH DISCHARGE. THRUSH.
Causes. Exposure to wet and filth; standing on dung,
or in a dirty, wet yard; stuffing the feet with cow-dung ;
bruises of the frog; undue paring; wounds of the frog;
accumulation of dried mud or gravel in the cleft; exten-
sion of disease from the skin of the heel, ete.
Symptoms. Fcetid discharge from the cleft, soreness of
the skin behind this, lameness or not according to severity.
Treatment. Wash out the diseased part, pare away all
ragged detached horn, and apply some astringents (dry
calomel pressed in on a pledget of tow; tar with a few
drops of sulphuric acid on the surface; carbolic acid; or
finely powdered sulphate of copper or zine).
CANKER.
This is a more inveterate inflammation of the frog, and
it may be the sole, representing in the horn-secreting
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structures that aggravated affection of the skin of the
heel in which red fungous growths appear. It may be
preceded by thrush and is due to the same general causes,
though it is also attributed to a parasitic fungus. It is
especially common in coarse lymphatic subjects.
Symptoms. A rapid growth, from the frog or sele or
both, of a soft, unhealthy, spongy horn, the tubes of which
are unnaturally large, open and wanting in cohesion, so
that they often stand apart from each other, and have the
appearance rather of a fleshy material than of horn. If
cut down it may grow up to the same level in twenty-four
hours, and the enlarged villi are reached and bleed long
before this would have happened in healthy horn. As in
thrush there is a most offensive discharge, and the disease
is very obstinate to treat.
Treatment. Cut down the fungous horn till blood
comes, and the adjacent horn to the same level. Then
cover with tow soaked in tincture of muriate of iron and
apply firm pressure by slips of wood placed side by side
with one end of each resting above the web of the shoe
at the toe, and the other on a slip extending across the
bulbs of the frog and resting above the heels of the shoe.
This must be removed and the dressing renewed at least
once in twenty-four hours. Should the course of improve-
ment seem lagging, change the dressing for carbolic acid,
chromic acid, the mineral acids, sulphate of copper or
iron, chloride of zinc, quicklime, chloride of antimony or
other caustic, resort being had to a new one in every
instance as the former seems to lose its effect. The re-
moval of the entire sole is essential to recovery in some
cases.
SIMPLE FOOT-ROT IN CATTLE AND SHEEP.
This is a simple inflammation of the horn-secreting
structures and adjacent skin, the result of direct irritation.
Wearing of the sole to the quick from long journeys on
hard roads; curling in of overgrown walls on the sole on
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soft, boggy pastures ; wounds with sharp bodies like nails,
glass, etc.; the accumulation and drying of clay or mud
between the claws; softening of the horn and irritation
from standing on hot reeking manure; irritation of the
skin around the coronets by iced water, etc.
Symptoms will vary according to the form, but in all
there is lameness, often severe, the sheep getting down on
its knees to feed, and an examination of the foot shows
the nature of the injury. In the case of wounds with
nails, glass, etc., the heat of the hoof will show the injured
one, and a slight paring will detect the wound if not the
offending body.
Treatment. In case of a simple superficial rawness
between the claws, clean the part and touch with a feather
dipped in a mixture of one part of sulphuric acid and
three or four parts of water; or the surface may be
smeared with tar and a bandage tied between the claws
and around the pastern. In case of the formation of
matter beneath the horn the foreign body, if any, should
be removed, the detached horn pared away until we reach
that which is still connected with the quick, the surround-
ing horn should be pared down to a thin edge and the
sore covered with tar, with a few drops of sulphuric acid
on the surface, the whole being closely bound up in a
bandage. In exceptional cases the severity of the inflam-
mation may demand a poultice, over the surface of which
a weak solution of sugar of lead may be poured. One tar
dressing is often enough, but the foot should always be
examined a few days after, and any hindrance to the heal-
ing process removed. Bad cases with fungous growths
must be treated like similar cases in the horse.
Sheep kept in low, soft pastures should have the hoof
shortened by a knife or toe nippers at short intervals, to
prevent injury to the sole.
CONTAGIOUS FOOT-ROT
Presents symptoms resembling those of simple foot-rot,
but usually begins at the coronet unless in the case of
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pre-existing sores, and tends to produce fungous growths
of the skin around the margin of the hoof and a degenera-
‘tion of horn in some respects comparable to canker. It is
mainly to be recognized by its spread in a flock as a
' sequence of contact with diseased animals, and without
any sufficient cause in their management or in the damp-
ness of the locality.
Treatment does not differ materially from that of simple
foot-rot except that a preference must be given to antisep-
tics in the selection of caustic dressings. Hydrochloric
acid reduced with thrice its bulk of water; chloride of
zine | dr., water 1 pint; carbolic acid; butter of antimony,
may be cited as examples. Much more important, how-
ever, 1s it to separate the sound from the diseased, and
from contaminated pastures and buildings, and to thor-
oughly cleanse and disinfect the latter before they are
again used for the shelter of flocks (see Disinfection).
FOOT-ROT FROM TUBERCULOSIS.
This is common in cattle and sheep, the disease com-
mencing in the digital bones, which are enlarged with
interstitial and surrounding deposit, leading to open sores,
open joints and complete destruction of the member (see
Tuberculosis).
CHAPTER. XD
DISEASED GROWTHS
The limits of the present work forbid any systematic de-
scription of the various degenerations of tissue (fatty, min-
eral, amyloid, pigmentary, etc.,) and of the tumors or dis-
eased growths which appear in different parts of the
system. The last will only be noticed so far as to point
out the principal distinctive characters of the malignant
tumors or cancers, and the simple.
Simple Tumors are composed of elements like those
previously existing at the same or some other part of the
body; they do not tend to draw surrounding structures
into their substance, but grow between these and push
them aside ; usually they are surrounded by distinct sacs
which separate them completely from surrounding tissues
except where the blood-vessels enter; they do not tend to
produce swellings in the nearest lymphatic glands, by rea-
son of propagation of elements absorbed from the dis-
eased mass, nor an unhealthy constitutional state—dys-
crasia—tending to the formation of such diseased masses
in internal organs; and their elements tend to be resolved
mainly into fat or gelatine by boiling, which shows there
is little albumen in their structure.
Cancers, on the other hand, usually contain elements
unlike any previously existing in the system. ‘The pres-
-ence of large cells, each containing smaller ones (nuclei)
in its interior, and these still smaller nuclei (nucleoli), was
at one time thought characteristic of cancer, and though
this cannot now be maintained, yet the abundance of such
Diseased Growths. ooo
cells, or of any cells, implying the growth of the tumor is
always highly suspicious. These tumors have no clearly-
defined limit, nor limiting sac, but grow in the natural
structures, drawing them into their substance and trans-
forming them into a cancerous mass. Hence, a cancer
near the surface will often lead to a depression at first by
the drawing in of the skin, and in the mammary glands
the drawing in of the teat is a most characteristic early
symptom. They are hereditary, tending to appear in the
offspring at the same age as in the parent. They lead to
early and painful swelling of the adjacent lymphatic
glands, of the internal lymphatic glands and of the spleen,
and produce or aggravate the unhealthy constitutional
state on which the deposition of cancer depends. If re-
moved, there is a great liability to the formation of cancer
in the same situation or some other, and especially if we
fail to remove the whole organ in which the disease pri-
marily appeared. They are more vascular, and grow
faster without apparent cause (mechanical injury, expos-
ure,) than simple tumors. Finally they contain an ex-
cess of albumen, and the larger the proportion of albumen,
of cells and granules, the more rapid is the growth and
the more redoubtable the result.
The Hard Cancers (Scirrhus) are firm and crisp under
the knife, and from the cut surface exudes a whitish fluid
—cancer-juice—containing the characteristic cells and
granules. Soft or Brain-like Cancer is very soft and fria-
ble, bleeds freely when wounded, contains a great excess
of cells and granules, and from its rapid growth pushes
existing tissues aside so as to feel more circumscribed.
It is the cancer of the young and of particular organs,
such as the eye, grows rapidly, opens early, exposing a
raw, unhealthy, bleeding surface, and has a short and fa-
tal course. It is often complicated by an extensive pro-
duction of black pigment (melanotic cancer). In Epithe-
lial Cancer the morbid product consists mainly in epithe-
lial cells, and it grows downward into the substance of the
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tissues as well as outward from the skin. It is slow to
implicate adjacent lymphatic glands, or to produce a con-
stitutional dyscrasia with internal deposits, and hence its
removal is much more frequently successful. Colloid Can-
cer is characterized by the formation of a mucous or gelat-
inous liquid containing a kernel of granules and rounded
simple or nucleated cells, enclosed in spherical cavities,
surrounded by a delicate membranous stroma, made up
of the former tissues of the part. Osteoid Cancer of ivory-
like hardness, with a vascular surface and interspaces, has
not been observed in the lower animals.
Treatment of Tumors. Recent simple tumors, still
largely cellular, may sometimes be removed by stimulat-
ing embrocations, as iodine ointment or tincture, cam-
phorated spirit, soap liniment, etc. Others may be greatly
reduced or even entirely removed by the occasional injec-
tion into their substance, through a very fine needle-like
tube, of discutients (weak solutions of iodine). In cystic
tumors the evacuation of the liquid through a fine cannula
or needle-like tube, and the injection of a weak solution
of iodine (one part of the compound tincture and three
parts water) will often succeed. But most frequently,
and especially in old-standing tumors, resort must be had
to the knife or to caustics. Excision with the knife is the
quickest and usually the preferable mode, but in some
dangerous situations caustic may be preferred. Its em-
ployment is founded on the fact that it tends to eat away
the diseased mass sooner than the healthy ; but this par-
tial immunity of the sound tissues will not warrant the use
of such agents as caustic potassa or soda, which quickly
permeate all cell structures alike and destroy them. Ni-
trate of silver, chloride of zinc, sulphate of copper, ter-
chloride of antimony, or the mineral acids, are usually
preferable. Protection against cold, ill-health arising
from other sources, mechanical injuries and exposures to
cold or wet are important elements in treatment.
For cancers, an early and extensive removal with the
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_ Diseased Growths. BUD
knife may be said to hold out the only hope. The whole
organ in which the cancer grows should be cut out, as a
rule, to insure the removal of all diseased elements, and
any interference is to be deprecated when the adjacent
lymphatic glands are already enlarged.
Attempts have been made to dissolve and remove can-
cers and other tumors with pepsin, and with considerable
success, the agent virtually digesting the diseased prod-
ucts with little pain, while the healthy tissues remain un-
affected.
APPENDIX.
ACTION, DOSES, ETC., OF MEDICINES.
To some readers a few words of explanation may be
necessary in order to the proper understanding of the drugs
and their doses.
1. EXPLANATION OF TERMS.
Alteratives change in some unexplained way the condi-
tions and functions of organs.
Anesthetics deprive of sensation and suffering.
Anodynes allay or diminish pain.
Antacids are antidotes to acids.
Anthelmintics kill or expel worms.
Antiperiodics obviate the return of a paroxysm in peri-
odic diseases.
Antiseptics prevent, arrest or retard putrefaction.
Antispasmodics prevent or allay cramps.
Aperients gently open the bowels.
Aromatics, strong-smelling stimulants which dispel wind
and allay pain.
Astringents cause contraction of vital structures.
Carminatives, warming stimulants (Aromatics).
Cathartics freely open the bowels.
Cholagogues increase the secretion of bile.
Demulcents sheathe and protect irritated surfaces.
Diaphoretics cause perspiration.
Discutients dispel enlargements.
Disinfectants destroy infecting matter.
Diuretics increase the secretion of urine.
Appendix. 397
Ecbolics cause contraction of the womb.
Emetics induce vomiting.
Expectorants increase the secretion from the air tubes.
Febrifuges counteract fever—lower temperature.
Laxatives (Aperients).
Narcotics allay pain and produce sleep.
Parturients (Ecbolics).
Purgatives (Cathartics).
ftefrigerants diminish heat.
Sedatives depress nervous power or lower circulation.
Soporijics induce sleep.
Stimulants temporarily excite the nervous or circulatory
system.
Sudorifics (Diaphoretics).
Sialogogues increase the secretion of saliva.
Stomachics improve digestion.
Tomcs gradually and permanently improve digestion
and nutrition. 3
Vermifuges kill and expel worms.
2. GRADUATION OF DOSES.
The doses given may be held applicable to full-grown
animals of medium size, therefore some allowance must be
made in any case in which the patient exceeds or comes
short of the average of his kind. A similar modification
must be made as regards young animals, not only on ac-
count of their smaller size but also of their greater sus-
ceptibility. The following table may serve as a guide:
HORSE, ETC. ° SHEEP. SWINE.
a ———
3 years. 2years.| 1% years. 15 m’ths. ¥ year. | I part.
fen EF Por “5 9-18 m’ths. -6 m’ths./|% —
-| 6-12m’ths.| 5-9 ‘‘ i
ei oy | ore
s qe ar
Se ea t6
Allowance must also be made for a nervous tempera-
ment which usually renders an animal more impressible,
398 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser.
for habit or continued use which tends to decrease the
susceptibility for individual drugs, for idiosynerasy which
can only be discovered by observing the action of the
agent on the particular subject, and for the influence of
disease when that is likely to affect the action. Thus in
most diseases of the brain and spinal cord and in some
impactions of the stomach, double the usual quantities of
purgative medicine will be necessary, while in influenza
and other low fevers half the usual doses may prove fatal.
In acute congestion of the brain, stimulating narcotics
(opium, belladonna, hyoscyamus,) would aggravate the
symptoms, ete.
3. FREQUENCY OF ADMINISTRATION.
Anodynes, Antispasmodics, Narcotics, Sedatives and
Stimulants may generally be repeated once in four or six
hours in order to maintain their effect. Alteratives, Dia-
phoretics, Febrifuges, Refrigerants and Tonics may be
administered twice daily. Purgatives should only be
given when necessary and should never be repeated until
from the lapse of time we are assured that the first dose is
to remain inoperative. Thus unless in urgent need, a
horse should not take a second dose of physic under
thirty-six hours after the exhibition of the first, and in all
cases, until the medicine has worked off, he should be
kept at rest and allowed only warm bran mashes and
water with the chill taken off. In ruminants a second dose
may be ventured on in twelve or sixteen hours, and in
carnivora and omnivora in from seven to ten hours.
Emetics should be given in full doses and repeated in five
or ten minutes if they fail to take effect, their action being
further solicited by copious draughts of tepid water and
tickling of the back of the mouth with a feather.
4, FORM TO ADMINISTER.
Drugs may often be given as powder or solution in the
food or water; they may be made into a soft solid with
Appendic. 399
syrup and linseed meal, rolled into a short cylinder and ©
covered with soft paper; they may be converted into an
infusion with warm or cold water, or into a decoction by
boiling ; or they may be powdered and suspended in thick
eruel or mucilage. They may be given, in a liquid form,
from a horn or bottle; or, as a short cylinder or pill, may
be lodged over the middle of the root of the tongue; or,
as a sticky mass, they may be smeared on the back teeth ;
or they may be given as an injection into the rectum; or
finally, in the case of certain powerful and non-irritating
agents, they may be injected under the skin.
No agent should be given until sufficiently diluted to
prevent irritation, if retained a few minutes in the mouth,
and irritants that will not mix with water (oil of turpen-
tine, croton oil, etc.,) should be given in a bland oil, in
milk or in eggs after having been thoroughly mixed.
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DRUGS AND DOSES.
When not otherwise stated, the doses for the horse may be given to ox, ass
and mule, and those of the sheep to the goat and swine.
ACETIC ACID, antidote to acids, cooling astringent : Horse 1 dreams
drs; ass I dr; sheep 1 scr; dog 2-3 drops.
TINCTURE OF ACONITE, sedative, diaphoretic: Horse 20-30 drops; ox
30-40 drops; ass 15-20 drops; sheep 3-5 drops; dog 1-3 drops.
ALCOHOL, stimulant, diuretic, narcotic: Horse I-3 0z; ox 3-60z; assI
oz; sheep % oz; dog2drs. Locally cooling astringent. ;
BRANDY, WHISKY and GIN, stimulant, diuretic, narcotic: Horse 3-6 0z;
ox 6-12 0z; ass 2-5 0z; sheepIoo0z; dog %0z. Locally cooling astringent.
STRONG ALE, stimulant, diuretic, narcotic: Horse 1-2 pts; ox 2-4 pts;
ass I pt; sheep % pt; dog2o0z. Locally cooling astringent.
BARBADOES ALOES, purgative: Horse 4 drs; ass 3-4 drs; dog % dr.
CAPE ALOES, purgative: Horse 5 drs; ass 4-5 drs.
ALUM, astringent: Horse 2-3 drs; ox 3-4 drs; ass 2 drs; sheep 4-1 dr;
dog %-I scr.
AMMONIA, LIQUID, diffusible stimulant, antispasmodic, antacid, diuretic:
Horse % 0z; ox %-1 0z; ass 2-4 drs; sheep %-1 dr; dog 1odrops. Lo-
cally blister.
AROMATIC AMMONIA, diffusible stimulant, antispasmodic, antacid, diuretic:
Horse I-2 02; ox 2-402; ass I-20z; sheep %-10z; dogidr. Locally
blister.
CARBONATE OF AMMONIA, diffusible stimulant, antispasmodic, antacid, di-
uretic: Horse 2-4drs; ox 4-6 drs; ass 2 drs; sheep %-1 dr; dog 10-15
grs. Locally blister.
MURIATE OF AMMONIA, stimulant, discutient, alterative, diuretic: Horse
2-4 drs; ox 4-6 drs; ass2drs; sheep %-1 dr; dog20grs. Locally cool-
ing discutient.
ACETATE OF AMMONIA, SOLUTION, diaphoretic, diuretic, stimulant: Horse
2-3 02; Ox 3-402; ass 20z; sheep 4-1 oz; dog2 drs.
ANISE-SEED, stomachic, carminative: Horse I 0z; ox I-20z3; ass I 0Z;
sheep 2-4 drs; dog I-3 scr.
- ANTIMONY, TARTARIZED (TARTAR EMETIC), emetic: Swine 5 grs: dog
2-4 grs. Sedative, diaphoretic: Horse 2 drs; ox 2-4 drs; ass2drs; sheep
I-2 scr; swine 4-1 gr; dog %-¥% gr. Locally blister.
ARECA NUT, vermifuge, teniafuge: Horse I 0z; ox I 0z3; ass I 02z;
sheep 3 drs; dog 4-1 dr.
ARNICA TINCTURE, stimulant, diuretic: Horse 1 dr; ox 1 dr; ass % dr;
sheep I scr; dog 10 drops. Locally cooling, soothing.
ARSENIC, alterative, nerve tonic: Horse 5 grs; ox 5-8 grs; ass 3-5 grs;
sheep I gr; swine % gr; dog, gr. Locally caustic, parasiticide.
ASAFGTIDA, diffusible stimulant, carminative, vermifuge: Horse 2 drs;
ox 4. drs; ass 1-2 drs; sheep %-1I dr; swine % dr; dog 10-20 grs.
AZEDARACH, vermifuge: Horse %-I 0z; ox I 0z; ass 3-4 drs; sheep I-2
drs; swine 1 dr; dog 20 grs.
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BELLADONNA, anodyne, antispasmodic, narcotic: Horse 2 0z; ox 2 oz;
ass I-2 oz; sheep % oz; dog § grs.
BELLADONNA, EXTRACT, anodyne, etc.: Horse 2drs; ox 2-3 drs; ass 1-2
drs; sheep % dr; dog 1-3 grs.
ATROPIA (alkaloid of Belladonna), anodyne, etc.: Horse 1-2 grs; ox I-2
grs; ass I gr; sheep % gr; dog 7; gr.
BALSAM OF PERU, stimulant, antispasmodic, expectorant: Horse I oz;
Ox I-14 oz; ass 14-1 oz; sheep 2 drs; dog ¥% dr.
BENZOIN, stimulant, antispasmodic, expectorant: Horse I 0z; ox I-1%
0Z; ass %-1 oz; sheep 2 drs; dog % dr.
BoRAX, nerve sedative, uterine stimulant: Horse 2-6 drs; ox %-I oz;
ass 2-4 drs; sheep %-1 dr; swine 14 dr; dog 5-10 grs. Locally astringent,
parasiticide.
BISMUTH, SUBNITRATE, soothes irritation of the stomach and bowels:
Horse 2 drs; ox 2-4 drs; ass 1-2 drs; sheep 20 STS 5 ; swine 10-20 grs; dog
5-10 grs. Locally soothing, healing.
BLACKBERRY ROOT, astringent: Horse 2-4 drs; ox % oz; ass 2 drs;
sheep 2 scr; dog ¥% scr.
BLUE-STONE (copper sulphate).
BONESET, stimulant, tonic, diaphoretic: Horse 1%4-I 0z; ox I oz; ass %
oz; sheep 2-3 drs; swine 2 drs; dog 4-1 dr.
BROMIDE OF POTASSIUM, nerve sedative: Horse 2-4 drs; ox 4 drs; ass
2-3 drs; sheep % dr; dog 5-10 grs.
BUCHU, stimulant, diuretic: Horse 4 drs; ox %-I oz; ass 3 drs; sheep
1 dr; dog 10-20 grs.
BUCKTHORN SYRUP, purgative: dog %-1 oz.
CALOMEL, purgative: Horse I dr; ox 1-2 drs; ass 1 dr; swine I scr;
dog 3-4 grs. Alterative: Horse I scr; ox I-3 scr; ass I scr; swine 3-4 grs;
dog %-I gr.
CAMPHOR, calmative, antispasmodic: Horse 1-2 drs; ox 2-4 drs; ass I
dr; sheep I scr; dog 3-10 grs.
CANTHARIDES, stimulant, diuretic: Horse 5 grs; ox 5-10 grs; ass 3-5
grs; sheep I-2 grs; dog %-¥% gr. Locally blister.
CAPSICUM, CAYENNE PEPPER, stimulant, aromatic: Horse 2-3 drs; ox 2-4
drs; ass 1-2 drs; sheep I scr; swine %-I scr; dog 2-5 grs. Locally irri-
tant.
CARAWAY SEED, stomachic: Horse I 0z; ox I-2 0z; ass I 0z; sheep 2-3
drs: swine 2 drs; dog I scr.
CARDAMOMS, stomachic: Horse 1 0z; oxI-20z; ass 10z; sheep 2-3 drs;
swine 2 drs; dog I scr.
CASCARILLA, Stimulant, bitter tonic: Horse %-I 0z; ox I oz; ass 4-6
drs; sheep I dr; dog Io grs.
CARBOLIC ACID, sedative, anodyne, astringent, antiseptic, disinfectant:
Horse %-1 dr; ox 1 dr; ass % dr; sheep 10 drops; dog 5 drops.
CASTOR-OIL, purgative: Horse I pt; ox 1-1% pts; ass I pt; sheep 3-4
oz; dog %-I oz.
CATECHU, astringent: Horse 2-5 drs; ox 3-8 drs; ass 2-3 drs; sheep I-2
drs; dog 10-30 grs.
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CHAMOMILE, stimulant, tonic: Horse I 0z; ox I-2 0z; ass I 0z3; sheep 2
drs; dog % dr.
CHERRY BARK, WILD, expectorant: Horse % oz; sheep 2-3 scr; swine
2 scr; dog I scr.
(CHLORAL-HYDRATE, sedative, antispasmodic: Horse, % oz; ass 4%-%
oz; sheep 1dr; dog 20 grs. Soporific: Horse 1 oz; sheep 2-3 drs; dog
yy dr.
CHLOROFORM, stimulant: Horse 1-2 drs; ass 1dr; sheep 1 ser; dog 5-10
drops. Anesthetic.
CINCHONA, PERUVIAN BARK, bitter tonic, antiseptic, antiperiodic: Horse
I-3 0z; ass I oz; sheep 2-4 drs; dog I dr.
CINNAMON, stomachic: Horse 4-6 drs; ox %-I oz; ass 4-6 drs; sheep
I-2 drs; dog 10-20 grs.
COD-LIVER OIL, tonic: Horse 4-6 0z; ox 6-8 0z; ass 4-60z; sheep I-2
oz; dog ¥% oz.
COLCHICUM, diuretic, sedative: Horse %-1 dr; ox 1-2 drs; ass % dr;
sheep 4 scr; dog 2-8 grs.
COLOCYNTH, bitter purgative: dog 2-5 gers.
CoLuMBO, bitter tonic: Horse 4-6 drs; ox %-10z; ass 2-3 drs; sheep
¥%-1 dr; dog Io grs.
CONIUM, EXTRACT, sedative: Horse I dr; ox I-2 drs; ass 4-1 dr; sheep
10-15 grs; swine IO grs; dog 2-5 grs.
CoPpaIVA, stimulant, diuretic, expectorant: Horse 2-4 drs; ox 3-4 drs;
ass 2-3 drs; sheep 14-1 dr; dog Io drops.
COPPER, AMMONIATED, tonic, antispasmodic, astringent: Horse 1-2 drs;
ox I-2 drs; ass I dr: sheep 10-20 grs; dog I-5 grs.
COPPER, IODIDE, tonic, discutient: Horse 1-2 drs.
COPPER, SULPHATE, tonic, astringent: Horse %-1 dr; ox I-2 drs; ass
¥% dr; sheep 10 grs; dog 2-4 grs.
CROTON SEEDS, purgative: Horse 10-12; ox 15-20; ass 8-10; sheep 2-3;
dog 1-2.
CROTON OIL, purgative: Horse 15-20 drops; ox 20-30 drops; ass 12-18
drops; sheep 5-8 drops; dog 3-4 drops.
CREAM OF TARTAR, diuretic: Horse I 0z; sheep 4-6 drs; dog I ;dr.
Laxative: Horse 5 0z; ox 5-8 0z; ass 5 0z; sheep I-20z; dog % oz.
DANDELION EXTRACT, TARAXACUM, diuretic, laxative, bitter: Horse
I-I1%% 0z; Ox 2 0z; ass I oz; sheep 3 drs; dog I dr.
DIGITALIS, sedative, diuretic: Horse 15-20 grs; ox 144-I dr; ass 15 grs;
sheep 5-15 grs; swine 2-10 grs; dog I-3 grs.
DOVER’S POWDER, sedative, diaphoretic: Horse 3 drs; ox 3-4 drs; ass 2
drs; sheep 2 scr; swine I scr; dog 2-4 grs.
ERGoT, checks bleeding, parturient: Horse %-I 0z; ox I 0z; ass % 0z;
sheep 1-2 drs; dog % dr.
ETHER, diffusible stimulant: Horse I-2 0z; ox 2-3 0z; ass I oz; sheep
¥% oz; swine 2-4 drs; dog I dr.
FENNEL SEED, stomachic: Horse I 0z; ox I-2 0z; ass I oz; sheep 2-4
drs; dog % dr.
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FILIX MAS., EXTRACT, MALE SHIELD-FERN, vermifuge, teeniacide: Horse
I oz; sheep % dr; dog 10-20 drops.
GALLS, OAK, astringent: Horse 4-6 drs; ox I-20z; ass 4 drs; sheep
¥y-I scr; swine I-2 scr; dog 1-3 grs.
GALLIC and TANNIC ACID, TANNIN, astringent: Horse I-3 scr; ass I-2
scr; sheep 5 grs; dog I-3 grs.
GENTIAN, bitter tonic: Horse 4 drs; ox %-10z; ass 4drs; sheep 1-2
drs; dog 10-20 grs.
GINGER, stimulant, stomachic: Horse I 0z; ox 2 0z; ass %-10z; sheep
W% oz; swine 2 drs; dog 2 scr.
GLAUBER SALTS (SODA SULPHATE).
HENBANE, HYOSCYAMUS, EXTRACT, sedative, antispasmodic: Horse 2 drs;
ox-2-4 drs; ass 1-2 drs; sheep %-1 dr; swine % dr; dog 5 grs.
HEMP, INDIAN, EXTRACT, antispasmodic, soporific, narcotic: Horse %-1
dr; ass % dr; sheep 10-15 grs; swine 5-10 grs; dog I-2 grs.
HYDROCYANIC ACID (PRUSSIC).
IODINE, alterative, discutient: Horse 10-20 grs; ox 20-30 grs; ass IO grs,
sheep 5-10 grs; swine 5 grs; dog I-2 ers.
IODIDE OF POTASSIUM, alterative, diuretic: Horse %-1dr; ox 1-2 drs;
ass % dr; sheep 3 scr; swine I-2 scr; dog I scr.
IPECACUANHA, emetic, sedative: Swine 1-2 drs; dog 15-20 grs. Diapho-
retic, expectorant: Swine % dr; dog 3-5 grs.
JALAP, purgative: Swine 1-2 drs; dog 4-1 dr.
IRON, PEROXIDE, tonic: Horse 2-4 drs; ox 4 drs; ass2 drs; sheep 1dr;
dog 5-10 grs. Antidote to arsenic.
IRON, SULPHATE, tonic: Horse 2-4 drs; ass 2 drs; sheep I dr; swine %
dr; dog 2-5 ers.
IRON, CARBONATE, tonic: Horse 2-4 drs; ass 2 drs; sheep 1dr; swine
¥% dr; dog 2-5 grs.
TRON, IODIDE, tonic, discutient: Horse 4-2 drs; ox 1-2 drs; ass 3-1
dr; sheep 15-30 grs; swine 10-20 grs; dog 1-8 grs.
IRON, TINCTURE OF MURIATE, astringent, checks bleeding: Horse 14-1 0z;
Ox I-2 0z; ass 4 0z; sheep %-1 dr; swine 10-30 drops; dog 5-10 drops.
KINO, astringent; Horse % 0z; ox %-1 0z; ass 2-4 drs; sheep I-2 drs;
swine %-1 dr; dog 10 grs.
Kousso, vermifuge: Sheep 2-3 0z; dog I oz.
LAUDANUM (OPIUM).
LEAD ACETATE (SUGAR OF LEAD), astringent, sedative: Horse 1-2 scr;
Ox 2-3 scr; ass I scr; sheep 10-15 grs; dog 2-5 grs.
LIME-WATER, antacid, astringent: Horse 4-5 0z; ox 4-80z; ass 40z;
sheep I oz; dog t dr.
LIME, CARBONATE, CHALK, antacid, astringent: Horse 1-2 0z; ox 2-402;
ass I oz; sheep 2-4 drs; dog 8-12 grs.
LIME, CHLORIDE, CHLORINATED, checks tympany, disinfectant: Horse
2-4 drs; ass 2 drs; sheep 1-2 drs.
LINSEED OIL, laxative: Horse 1-2 pts; ox I-2 qts; ass I pt; sheep
¥y pt.
404 The Farmer’s Veterinary Adviser.
LoBELIA, sedative, antispasmodic, expectorant: Horse 1-2 drs; ox 1-3
drs; ass 1 dr; sheep 15 grs; swine 5-15 grs; dog I-5 grs.
MAGNESIA, antacid, laxative, antidote to arsenic: Horse I-2 0z; ox 2-4
oz; sheep I oz.
MAGNESIA, SULPHATE, EPSOM SALTS, laxative: ox I-2 lbs; sheep 4-6 oz.
MALLow, demulcent: Freely.
MENTHA PIPERITA (PEPPERMINT).
MERCURY WITH CHALK, HYDRARGRUM CUM CRETA, antacid, laxative:
Calf 10-15 grs; dog 5-10 grs.
MERCURIAL PILL, BLUE PILL, laxative: Dog 5 grs.
MERCURY, SUBCHLORIDE (CALOMEL).
MURIATIC ACID, HYDROCHLORIC ACID, tonic, astringent, caustic, disin-
fectant: Horse 1 dr; ox 2 drs; ass 1 dr; sheep 20 drops; dog 2-5 drops.
MyRRH, stimulant, tonic: Horse 2-4 drs; ox 4-6 drs; ass 2 drs; sheep
I-2 drs; dog 15-20 grs.
NITRE (POTASSA NITRATE).
NITRIC ACID, tonic, astringent, caustic: Horse 1 dr; ox2 drs; ass 1 dr;
sheep 20 drops; dog 2-5 drops.
NvuxX VOMICA, nerve stimulant, tonic: Horse 10-30 grs; ox 20-40 grs;
ass 10-20 grs; sheep 5-15 grs; dog %-3 grs.
OAK BARK, astringent: Horse I 0z; ox 2-4.0z; ass 1o0z; sheep 4 drs;
Swine 2-3 drs; dog I-2 drs.
OLIVE OIL, laxative: Horse I-2 pts ; ox 2-3 pts; ass I pt; sheep 3-6 0z;
dog I-3 02.
OPIUM, narcotic, sedative, anodyne, antispasmodic: Horse %-2 drs; ox
2-4 drs; ass %-1 dr; sheep 10-20 grs; dog 4-3 grs.
OPIUM, TINCTURE, LAUDANUM, narcotic, sedative, anodyne, antispasmodic:
Horse I-20z; ox 2 0z; ass¥g-10z; sheep 2-3 drs; dog 15-30 drops.
MOoORPHIA, MURIATE, narcotic, sedative, anodyne, antispasmodic: Horse
3-5 grs; Ox 5-10 grs; ass 3 grs; sheep¥%-1I gr; dog Y-¥% gr.
PEPPERMINT, OIL, stomachic, antispasmodic: Horse 20 drops; ox 20-30
drops; ass 20 drops; sheep 5-10 drops; swine 5 drops; dog 3-5 drops.
PERUVIAN BARK (CINCHONA).
PEPPER, BLACK, WHITE, stomachic, stimulant: Horse 2 drs; ox 3 drs;
ass 2 drs; sheep I-2 scr; dog 5-10 grs.
PIMENTO, stomachic, stimulant : Horse 2drs; ox3drs; ass2drs; sheep
I-2 scr; dog 5-10 grs.
PODOPHYLLIN, purgative, sedative: Horse 1-2 drs; ox 2drs; ass I dr;
sheep 10-20 grs; swine 6-8 grs; dog I-2 grs.
POMEGRANATE ROOT BARK, vermifuge: Horse I 0z; ox I-20z; ass 1 02;
sheep 2-3 drs; swine I-2 drs; dog 20-30 grs.
POTASSA ACETATE, antacid, diuretic, diaphoretic: Horse 6-8 drs; ox I oz;
ass 4-6 drs; sheep I-2 drs; dog 10-20 grs.
POTASSA NITRATE, diuretic, febrifuge: Horse, 6-8 drs; ox I oz; ass 46
drs; sheep 1-2 drs; dog 10-20 grs.
POTASSA BICARBONATE, antacid, diuretic: Horse 6-8 drs; ox 10z; ass~
4-6 drs; sheep 1-2 drs; dog 10-20 grs.
PoTASSA CHLORATE, stimulant, diuretic, refrigerant, antiseptic: Horse 1-4
drs; ass 1-2 drs; sheep 20-40 grs; dog 5-15 grs.
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POTASSIUM IODIDE (IODINE).
PoTASSIUM BROMIDE, nerve sedative: Horse %0z; ass 2-4drs; sheep
2drs; swine I dr; dog 20 grs.
POTASSIUM CYANIDE, sedative, antispasmodic: Horse I-2 grs; ox 2 grs;
ass I-2 grs; sheep % gr; dog %-\% gr.
PRUNUS VIRGINIANA (WILD CHERRY).
PRUSSIC ACID, sedative, antispasmodic: Horse 20-30 drops; ox 30-40
drops; ass 15-20 drops; sheep 5-8 drops; swine 5 drops; dog 1-3 drops.
PUMPKIN SEEDS, vermifuge, teeniafuge: Dog % oz.
QUINIA, SULPHATE, bitter tonic: Horse 20 grs; ox 20-30 grs; ass 15-20
grs; sheep 6-10 grs ; swine 5-10 grs; dog 2-6 grs.
RHUBARB, laxative, tonic: Horse I 0z; ox 2 0z 3 ass 1o0z; sheep I dr;
dog 20 grs.
RESIN, diuretic: Horse 4-6 drs; ox %-1I 0z; ass 4-6 drs; sheep 2-4 drs;
swine 2 drs; dog 20-30 gers.
Soap, diuretic, antacid, laxative: Horse 1-2 0z; ass I oz; sheep 2-6 drs;
swine 2-4 drs; dog 20-60 gers.
SODA, BICARBONATE, antacid, diuretic: Horse 4-6 drs; ox 4-8 drs; ass
4 drs; sheep 1-2 drs; dog 5-30 grs.
SODA, SULPHITE, BISULPHITE, HYPOSULPHITE, antiseptic, disinfectant,
alterative, relieves tympany: Horse I 0z; ox 2-3 0z; ass 1o0z; sheep 2-6
drs; swine 2-4 drs; dog 20-60 grs.
SODA SULPHATE (GLAUBER SALTS), purgative: Horse 1-144 lbs; ox 1-2
Ibs; ass %-1 1b; sheep 6 oz.
SODIUM, CHLORIDE (COMMON SALT), tonic, vermifuge, purgative: Horse
I-2 0Z; OX 2-4 0Z; ass I oz; sheep 2-4 drs; swine 1-3 drs; dog 10-30 grs.
SANTONIN, WORMSEED, SEMEN CONTRA, vermifuge: Horse %-1 0z; ass
4 drs; sheep 2-4 drs; swine 1-3 drs; dog 10-60 grs.
SQUILL, diuretic, expectorant: Horse 4% dr; ox %-1 dr; ass 20-30 grs;
sheep 10-15 grs; dog I-5 grs.
SILVER, NITRATE (LUNAR CAUSTIC), nerve tonic: Horse 5 grs; ox 5-8
grs; ass 2-4 grs; sheep I-2 grs; dog %-¥% gr.
SPANISH FLIES (CANTHARIDES).
SPIGELIA, vermifuge: Horse %-I 0z; ox I-2 0z; ass %-I oz; sheep 2-4
drs; swine 2-3 drs; dog 1 dr.
STRYCHNIA, nerve tonic: Horse I-2 grs; ox I-3 grs; assI gr; sheep
¥Y%-1I gr; swine % gr; dog 4)-yp gr.
SULPHUR, expectorant, diaphoretic: Horse 3-4 0z; ox 5-60z; ass 3 02;
sheep 20z; swine 1%-20z; dog2-8drs. Laxative, alterative: Horse 1 0z;
Ox I-20z; ass 1oz; sheep6drs; swine 4-6drs; dog %-1dr. Parasiticide.
SWEET SPIRITS OF NITRE, SPIRIT OF NITROUS ETHER, stimulant, antispas-
modic, diuretic, diaphoretic: Horse I-2 0z; ox 3-4 0z; ass I oz; sheep 3-6
drs; dog %-2 drs.
STRAMONIUM, narcotic, sedative: Horse 20-30 grs; ox %-I dr; ass 15-30
grs; sheep 5-10 grs; swine 4-6 grs; dog 2 grs.
SULPHURIC ACID, tonic, refrigerant, caustic: Horse 1 dr; ox 2-4 drs;
ass I dr; sheep % dr; swine 20 drops; dog 5-10 drops.
TOBACCO, sedative, antispasmodic, vermifuge: Horse 4 drs; ox 4-6 drs;
ass 4 drs; sheep I dr; swine % dr; dog 5-6 grs.
406 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser.
TAR, expectorant, antiseptic: Horse %-1 0z; ox %-20z; sheep % oz.
TURPENTINE OIL, stimulant, antispasmodic, diuretic: Horse 1-20z; ox
I-1¥% oz; ass % oz; sheep 1-2drs; swine1dr; dog %dr. Vermifuge:
Horse 2 023 0x 2-302; ass I-20z; sheep 4drs; swine 2-3 drs; dog 1-2 drs.
VALERIAN, diffusible stimulant, antispasmodic, vermifuge: Horse 2 oz;
Ox 2-4 0z; ass 2 0z; sheep % 0z; swine 2-3 drs; dog 1-2 drs. ~
VALERIANATE OF IRON, nerve tonic: Dog 4-5 grs.
VERATRUM, sedative: Horse I scr; ox %-1 dr; ass %-I scr; sheep 5-10
grs; swine 5-8 grs; dog 2 grs.
WILD CHERRY BARK, expectorant: Horse I 0z; ox 1% oz; ass 1 0Z;
sheep 3 drs; dog 30 grs.
ZINC CARBONATE, astringent, tonic: Horse 2 drs; ox 2-4 drs; ass 2 drs;
sheep %-1 dr; swine 4 dr; dog 10-15 grs.
ZINC, SULPHATE, astringent, tonic: Horse 1-2 drs; ox 2-3 drs; ass 1 dr;
sheep 15-30 grs; swine 10-20 grs; dog 2-3 grs. Emetic: Swine 15 grs to
1 dr; dog 8-15 grs.
BLISTERING, ETC.
As an example of a simple blister for the horse the fol-
lowing may be given :—
Powdered Cantharides 2. drs.
Camphor 5 gers.
Oil of Lavender 10 drops.
Lard 1 oz.
Mix thoroughly. When applying it, first cut the hair from
the part, then rub the ointment well in with the palm of
the hand and against the direction of the hair, for four or
five minutes. The animal should be tied short to a high
rack or otherwise prevented from reaching the blistered
surface with his lips until it is well raised. Then the
application may be washed off with soap-suds and the
part smeared daily with lard. The blister should not be
repeated until the effects of the first have passed off.
For cattle, } oz. oil of turpentine or 10 grs. tartar
emetic may be added to the above blister. For pigs can-
tharides and turpentine may be used alone, 1 of the for-
mer to 4 of the latter. For dogs and sheep equal parts of
strong aqua ammonia and olive-oil may be used and
rubbed in as often as may seem requisite.
INDEX.
Abductor femoris displaced,
349,
Abortion, 223.
Abortion from ergot, 64.
Abscess in bone, 296-299.
Abscess in bone, symptoms of,
297.
Abscess in the false nostril,
hd
Abscess in
pouches, 77.
Abscess of the walls of the
chest, 93.
Acariasis, 277.
Acari, parasitic, 277.
Achorion Schonleini, 275.
Action of medicines, 396.
_ Acute enteritis, 155.
Acute farcy, 44.
Acute gastric indigestion in
horses, 148.
Acute glanders, 23.
Acute inflammation of the
bowels, 155.
Acute intestinal indigestion in
horses, 149.
Acute muco-enteritis, 157.
Afterbirth, retained, 230.
Ages, doses for different, 397.
Air in the chest, 92.
the guttural
Air in veins, 121.
Albuminoids in the blood, im-
perfect oxidation of, 185.
Albuminous urine, 206.
Albuminuria, 206.
Amaurosis, 246.
Anemia, 70.
Anasarca, 67.
Anchylosis, 307.
Aneurisms, 119.
Animal plagues, exclusion and
extinction of, 2.
Animals, doses for different,
397-400.
Anthrax, 32, 94.
Anthrax, apoplectic, 38.
Anthrax fever, in birds, 40;
cattle, 39 ; horses, 38 ; sheep,
39 ; swine, 40.
Anthrax in dogs and cats, 38.
Anthrax in man, 38.
Anthrax of the throat, 37.
Anthrax, prevention of, 42.
Anthrax, treatment of, 40.
Anus, fistula in, 168.
Anus, imperforate, 169.
Aphthous fever, 10.
Apoplectic anthrax, 38.
Apoplexy, 253.
Apoplexy of the lung, 94.
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Appendix, 396.
Appetite, depraved, 153.
Arm-bone, fracture of, 330.
Arterial hemorrhage, 117.
Arteries, dilatation of, 119.
Arteries, diseases of, 117.
Arteries, inflammation of, 118.
Arteries, wounds of, 117.
Arteritis, 118.
Arthritis, 307.
Ascites, 170.
Ascites in parturition, 230.
Asiatic cholera, 24.
Asthma, 94.
Atrophy of the heart, 111.
Auscultation, 73, 108.
Azotzmia, 185.
Azoturia, 185,
Back and loins, fractures of,
321,
Back and loins, sprains of, 322.
Back tendons, sprains of, 338.
Beef tapeworm, 58.
Belly-ache, 154.
Belly, dropsy of, 170.
Big-head, 302.
Biliary calculi, 195.
Bilious fever in horses, 21.
Bird acari, 278.
Bird lice, 284.
Bird-pox, 10.
Birds, impacted crop in, 140.
Birds, pulse in, 107.
Bistouri caché, 239.
Bit and curb, injuries by, 317.
Black pigment tumors, 274.
Black-quarter, 36.
Black-tongue, 36.
Index.
Black water, 186.
Bladder, eversion of, 210.
Bladder, inflammation of, 208.
Bladder, paralysis of, 208.
Bladder, spasm of itsneck, 207.
Bladder, stone in, 214.
Bleeding from arteries, 117.
Bleeding from the lungs, 97.
Bleeding from the nose, 75.
Bleeding from the womb, 230.
Bleeding from veins, 119.
Bleeding in the bowels from
liver disease, 183.
Blistering, 406.
Bloating, 140.
Bloodlessness, 70.
Blood poisoning from imper-
fect oxidation of albumi-
noids, 185.
Blood spavin, 361-362,
Bloody flux, 161.
Bloody milk, 236.
Bloody murrain, 32, 36.
Bloody urine, 204.
Blow-flies, 282.
Blowing murmurs in the heart,
109.
Blue disease, 110.
Blue milk, 236.
Bog spavin, 361.
Boils, 273.
Bone, death of, 296, 299.
Bone, induration of, 296.
Bone, results of inflammation
in, 296.
Bones, general diseases of,
293-295. !
Bones, inflammation of, 295.
Bone, softening of, 296, 301.
Index. — 409
Bone spavin, 360. Bulle, 267.
Bone, suppuration in, 296-299. | Bullers, 49.
Bone, symptoms of abscess in, | Burns, 291.
297. Burse, inflamed, 310.
Bone, symptoms of death of, | Burst, 164.
297.
Bone, symptoms of inflamma-| Calcifications near inflamed
- tion in, 296. bones, 296.
Bone, symptoms of ulceration | Calculi in the gall ducts, 195.
Ob 29: Caleuli, salivary, 135.
Bone, thickening of, 296. Calculi, urinary, 211.
Bone, treatment of inflamed, | Callosities of the skin, 274.
298. Calves and foals, lung worms
Bone, tubercle in, 300. in, 101.
Bone, tumor of, 296. Cancers, 394, 274, 318.
Bone, ulceration in, 296, 299. | Cancer of the orbit, 318.
Bots, 171. Cancer of the tongue, 128.
Bots in the throat, 79. Cancroid of the lips, 128.
- Bowels, foreign bodies in, 152.| Canine distemper, 23.
Bowels, impacted, 150. Canine madness, 28.
Bowels, inflammation of, 155. | Canker, 388.
Bowels, obstruction of, 163. | Capped hock, 356.
Brain, inflammation of, 254. |Carbolic acid as a disinfectant,
Breech presentation, 229. 5.
Bright’s disease, 206. Carbuncular erysipelas, 37.
Bristle-balls, 153. Carditis, 115. 3
Broken-down, 339. Carious teeth, 131.
Broken knees, 334. Carpitis, 332.
Broken ribs, 93, 112. Castration, evil effects of, 221.
Broken-wind, 96. Castration of males, 220; fe-
Bronchitis, 85. males, 222; birds, 228.
Bronchitis from worms, 101, | Cataract, 245.
103, 104. Catarrh, malignant, 78.
Bronchocele, 65. Catarrh, nasal, 75.
Broncho- pleuro- pneumonia, |Catarrh of stomach and bow-
92. els, 151.
Broncho-pneumonia, 92. Catarrh of womb or vagina,
Buckwheat as a cause of skin-| 231. ‘
disease, 269. Cat-flea, 284.
35
410
Index.
Cattle, lung fever in, 14.
Cattle, malignant catarrh in,
78.
Cattle, measles in, 58.
Cattle plague, 12.
Cattle, tapeworm in, 58.
Caustic potassa and soda as
disinfectants, 6.
Chafing of the skin, 266.
Charcoal as a disinfectant, 6.
Chest, air or gas in, 92.
Chest diseases, signs of, 73.
Chest, water in, 90, 92.
Chest, wounds of, 324.
Chigoe, 283.
Chloride of lime as a disin-
fectant, 6.
Chloride of zine as a disin-
fectant, 6.
Chlorine as a disinfectant, 5.
Choking, 137.
Cholera, Asiatic, 34.
Cholera, hog, 25.
Chorea, 249.
Choroiditis, 243.
Chronic bronchitis, 86.
Chronic farcy, 44.
Chronic glanders, 43.
Chronic indigestion in horses,
151.
Chronic roaring, 83.
Cirrhosis, 195.
Classification of contagious
diseases, 3.
Clots on the valves of the
heart, 114.
Cleanliness as a disinfectant, 4.
» Cerebral meningitis, 254.
Cerebritis, 254,
Cerebro-spinal fever, 255.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis, 255.
Coal-tar as a disinfectant, 5.
Coenurus cerebralis, 52.
Coffin-bone, distortion of, 384,
Coffin-joint lameness, 371.
Cold drink, indigestion from,
147,
Cold in the head, 75.
Colic, spasmodic, 154.
Colic, tympanitic, 149.
Collapse of the lung, 93.
Colloid cancer, 394.
Coma somnolentum, 252.
Congestion of the lungs, 87.
Conjunctivitis, 241.
Consumption, 47.
Contagious diseases, classifi-
cation of, 3.
Contagious diseases,
from, 2.
Contagious diseases, propaga-
gation of, 2.
Contagious diseases, their im-
portance, 1.
Contagious lung fever, 14,
Contraction, 386.
Convulsions, 252.
Convulsions from ergotism, 63.
Convulsions from teething,
134,
Coraco-radial tendon, sprain
of, 328.
Cornea, ulcers of, 242.
Corns, 380.
Coronet, fistula of, 387.
Coronet, wounds of, 386.
Cow-pox, 7.
Cracked heels, 270.
losses
| i pa lc it an Ea iN i a anal
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Index.
411
Cranium, fracture of the base| Dilatation of the heart, 112.
of, 318.
Cresylic acid as a disinfectant,
ah SMe
Crib-biting, 129.
Crop, impaction of, 140.
Croup, 81.
Croup, fracture of, 322.
Croupous enteritis, 159.
Curb, 363.
Cutting, 242.
Cyanosis, 110.
Cystic calculus, 214.
Cysticercus cellulosa, 56.
Cysticercus medio-canellata,
58.
Cystitis, 208.
Cysts under the tongue, 128.
Deformities, 227.
Demodex, 278.
Dentinal tumors, 133, 318.
Dentition fever, 133.
Depraved appetite, 152.
Dermanyssus, 278.
Dermatocoptis equi, 278.
Dermatophagus, 277.
Dermatophagus equi, 279.
Desquamative nephritis, 206.
Diabetes insipidus, 203.
Diabetes mellitus, 184.
Diarrhea, 160.
Dietetic and constitutional dis-
eases, 63.
Difficult parturition, assistance
1) 227,
Diffuse baldness, 276.
Digestive organs, diseases of,
124.
Diphtheria, 82.
Disease as affecting the action
of medicines, 398.
Diseased teeth, 125.
Diseases of the digestive or-
gans, 124,
Diseases of the foot, 365.
Diseases of the heart, 106.
Disease of the membranes of
the teeth, 133.
Diseases of the respiratory or-
gans, general causes of, 72.
Disinfection, 3.
Dislocation of the fetlock, 342.
Dislocation of the hip, 350.
Dislocation of the knee, 333.
Dislocation of the knee cap,
353.
Dislocation of the lower jaw,
318.
Dislocation of the shoulder,
328.
Dislocation of the tail, 323.
Displaced teeth, 130.
Displacements of the heart,
110.
Distemper in dogs, 23.
Distemper in young horses, 17.
Distomum lanceolatum, 196.
Diuresis, 203.
Diuretics, poisoning by, 203,
205.
Dog-pox, 10.
Doses, 397-400.
Doses, graduation of, 397.
Double-headed monster, 229.
Down in the hip, 347.
Drainage in anthrax, 33.
412
Index.
Dropsy of the abdomen, 170.
Dropsy of the lung, 93.
Dropsy of the scrotum, 219.
Dry gangrene from ergot, 64.
Dry murrain, 144.
Drugs and doses, 396-400.
Dysentery, 161.
Earth as a disinfectant, 6.
Echinococcus hominis, veteri-
norum, 35.
Ecthyma, 268.
Eczema, 267.
Eggs of tapeworms, 52.
Elbow, diseases of, 328.
Elbow, fracture of, 329.
Elbow-joint, disease of, 330.
Elbow, tumors of, 328.
Elbow, wounds of, 329.
Emasculation, 220, 223.
Embolism, 118.
Embryo tapeworms, 52.
Encephalitis, 254.
Encephaloid, 394.
Encephaloid of the face, 318.
Endocarditis, 114.
Enlargement of the heart, 111.
Enteritis, 155.
Enteritis, croupous, 159,
Enzootic hematuria, 185.
Enzootic myelitis, 257.
Epilepsy, 247.
Epithelial cancer, 274,
Epithelioma, 394.
Epizootic aphtha, 10.
Epizootic cerebro-spinal men-
ingitis, 255.
Epizootic influenza, 19.
Ergotism, 63.
Erysipelas, 286.
Erysipelas carbuncular, 37.
Euchlorine as a disinfectant, 5.
Eustrongylus gigas, 60.
Eversion of the bladder, 210.
Eversion of the rectum, 167.
Eversion of womb or vagina,
232.
Examination of the urine, 202.
Exostosis, 296.
Extinction of animal plagues,
2.
Eye, diseases of, 240.
Eye, foreign bodies in, 241.
Eye, inflammation of the in
terior of, 243.
Eyelashes turned in, 240.
Eyelids torn, 240.
Eye, recurring inflammation
of, 244.
Kye-socket, cancer of, 318.
Eye, superficial inflammation
of, 241.
Eye, tumors on, 242.
Kye, ulcers of, 242.
Eye, white specks on, 242.
Facial paralysis, 259.
Falling sickness, 247.
False quarter, 379.
Farcy, 43.
Fasciola hepatica, 196.
Fatty heart, 115.
Favus, 275.
Fecundity of tapeworms, 52.
Epivoutis diseases, their im-| Fetlock, blows on the inside
portance, 1.
of, 242.
Index.
413
Fetlock, disease of, 342.
Fetlock, dislocation of, 342.
Fetlock, puffs in front of, 341.
Fetlock, swelling in front of,
341.
Fever, cerebro-spinal, 255.
Fibula, fracture of, 354.
Fistula, 291.
Fistula in ano, 168.
Fistula of the coronet, 387.
Fistula of the poll, 319.
Fistula, salivary, 135.
Fistulous withers, 320.
Fits, 252.
Fleas, 283.
Fleas, attacks of, 282.
Flooding, 230.
Flukes in the liver, 196.
Foot and mouth disease, 10.
Foot, causes of diseases of, 365.
Foot, diseases of the, 365.
Foot, inflammation of, 376.
Foot-rot, 389. ¢
Foot-rot, contagious, 277, 390.
Foot-rot, tuberculous, 391.
Foot, sesamoiditis of, 371.
Foot, fractures in the, 375.
Fore-arm, fracture of, 330.
Foreign bodies in stomach and
bowels, 152.
Foul in the foot, 300, 389, 391.
Founder, 376.
Fractures, 303.
Fracture at the base of the
cranium, 318.
Fractures, bandages for, 304.
Fractured ribs, 93, 323.
Fracture inside the hock, 359.
Fracture of the arm-bone, 332.
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Fractures of the back and
loins, 321.
Fracture of the croup, 322.
Fracture of the face bones,
Sy ive
Fractures in the foot, 375.
Fracture of the fore-arm, 330.
Fractures of the hip, 347.
Fracture of the knee cap, 352.
Fracture of the leg, 354.
Fracture of the lower jaw, 316.
Fractures of the neck bones,
320.
Fracture of the neck of the
thigh-bone, 351.
Fracture of the nose, 317.
Fractures of the pastern bones,
343.
Fracture of the point of the
elbow, 329.
Fracture of the point of the
hock, 359.
Fracture of the poll, 317.
Fracture of the shank, 337.
Fracture of the shoulder-blade,
328.
Fracture of the splint bones,
337.
Fracture of the upper jaw,
317.
Fragility of bones, 301.
Frog, canker of, 388.
Frog, discharge from, 388.
Frog, inflammation of, 388.
Frontal bones, fracture of, 317.
Fungi in milk, 236.
Furuncle, 273.
Gadfly, 282.
414
Gadflies of horses, 171.
Gall ducts, stones in, 195.
Gall-stones, 195.
Gamasus of fodder, 278.
Gangrene from ergot, 64.
Gapes, 104.
Gape-worm, 100.
Garget, 237.
Gas in the pleura, 92.
Gastric fever in horses, 21.
Gastric parasites, 171.
Gastritis in oxen, 146.
Generation, diseases of the or-
gans of, 218.
Gid, 52.
Glander heaves, 86.
Glanders, 43.
Glass eyes, 246.
Gleet, 209.
Gloss-anthrax, 36.
Gluteus, sprain of, 348,
Goat-pox, 9.
Goitre, 65.
Gonorrhea, 209.
Grapes, 270.
Gravel, 210, 211.
Grease, 269.
Grease, parasitic, 277.
Grub in the head, 76, 98.
Gullet, dilatation of, 140.
Gullet, stricture of, 140.
Gums, inflamed, 127.
Gut-tie, 163.
Guttural pouches, abscess of,
its
Guttural tumors in swine, 37.
Hematopinus, 284,
Hematuria, 204.
Index.
Heematuria, enzootic, 185, 187.
Hzemoptysis, 97.
Hemorrhage from arteries,
17.
Hemorrhagic enteritis, 155.
Hair-balls, 153.
Hamstring, rupture of, 356.
Hamstring, sprain of, 356.
Hard cancer, 394.
Heart, atrophy of, 111.
Heart, auscultation of, 108.
Heart, blowing murmurs in,
109.
Heart, clots on its valves, 114.
Heart, dilatation of, 112.
Heart, diseases of, 106.
Heart, disease of its valves,
125;
Heart, enlargement of, 111.
Heart, fatty degeneration of,
115;
Heart, hypertrophy of, 111.
Heart, parasites in, 116.
Heart, rupture of, 115.
Heart-sack, inflammation of
112.
Heart, wounds of, 112.
Heat apoplexy, 262.
Heat as a disinfectant, 4.
Heaves, 96.
Heels, bruises of, 380.
Heels, diseases of, 269.
Heels, distorted, 384.
Helophilus, 174.
Hemiplegia, 259.
Hen-louse, 278.
Hepatirrhea, 191.
Hepatitis, 192.
Hereditary epilepsy, 247.
Index.
415
Hereditary heaves, 96.
Hereditary ophthalmia, 244.
Hernia, 164.
Herpes, 267.
High breeding and heart dis-
ease. 115.
Hip, dislocated, 350.
Hip, fractures of, 347.
Hip-joint, disease of, 350.
Hippobosea ovina, 283.
Hip, sprain of the, 348.
Hock, dropsy of, 362.
Hoove, 140.
Horn, natural state of, 368.
Horny tumor in the heel, 380.
Horny tumor of the lamina,
379.
Horse-pox, 6.
Husk, 101.
Hydrocele, 219.
Hydrocephalus in parturition,
229.
Hydrorachitis, 257.
Hydrophobia, 28.
Hock, elastic swelling in front | Hydrothorax, 90, 92.
of the outer side of, 358.
Hock-joint, inflammation of,
361.
Hock, fractures of, 359, 360.
Hypertrophy of the heart, 111.
Icterus, 189.
Impacted crop, 140.
Hock, fracture of point of,| Impacted large intestines, 150.
359.
Hock, sprain behind the, 363.
Hock, sprain of the flexor be-
hind the, 358.
Hock, sprain of the flexor of,
355.
Hock, tendon displaced from
_ the point of, 367.
Hock, thoroughpin of, 358.
Hog cholera, 25, 60.
Honey-dew as a cause of skin-
disease, 269.
Hoof-bound, 386.
Hoofs, contracted, 386.
Hoofs, loss of, from eating er-
got, 64.
Hoof, natural state of, 368.
Hoof-wall, cracks in, 378.
Hoof-wall, powdery degener a-
tion of, 388,
Hoose, 101.
Impacted third stomach, 144.
Imperforate anus, 169.
Impervious teat, 238.
Impetigo, 268.
Indigestion from cold water,
147.
Indigestion in calves, foals,
etc., 147.
Indigestion in horses, 148, 149,
151.
Indigestion, intestinal, 149.
Inflammation of the lungs, 88.
Influenza, 19.
Injuries to the loins, 204.
Intercostal abscess, 93.
Internal ophthalmia, 243.
Intestinal catarrh from liver
disease, 183.
Intestinal fever of swine, 25,
94.
Intestinal worms, 174.
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Intestinal worms, symptoms |
of, 179.
Invagination, 163.
Jritis, 243.
Irregular strangles, 18.
Itch, 277.
Ixodes, 282.
Jaundice, 189.
Jaws, open joint between, 318.
Joints, diseases of, 306.
Joints, eburnation in, 307.
Joints, general diseases of,
293.
Joints, inflammation of, 307.
Joints, matter in, 308.
Joints, tuberculous disease of,
308.
Joints, ulceration In, 307.
Keraphyllocele, 379.
Kidneys, inflammation of, 205,
Kidney-worm, 60.
Knee, bruise on inner side of,
333.
Knee-cap, fracture of, 352.
Knee-cap, dislocation of, 353.
Knee, dislocation of, 333.
Knee, inflammation of, 332.
Knee, puffs in front of, 331.
Knee, sprains behind, 331.
Knee, synovial swellings be-
hind, 331; in front of, 331.
- Knee, wounds of, 333.
Labor, premature, 226.
Lameness, 293.
Lamine, horny tumor of, 379.
Laminitis, 376.
Index.
Laminitis, chronic, 378.
Lampas, 126.
Lard-worm of swine, 59.
Large intestines, impaction of,
150.
Laryngitis, 79.
Lateral cartilages, ossified, 374.
Lathyrus sativa as causing
palsy, 84.
Lead poisoning, 261.
Leptus Americana, 279.
Lethargy from ergotism, 63.
Leucorrhea, 231.
Leukemia, 200.
Lice, 284.
Lime as a disinfectant, 6.
Lips, cancroid of, 128.
Lips, warts on, 128.
Liver, atrophy of, 195.
Liver, cancer of, 195.
Liver, chronic inflammation
of, 194.
Liver, congestion of, 191.
Liver disease, general symp- :
toms of, 182.
Liver, fatty degeneration of,
195.
Liver, fibrous degeneration of,
195.
Liver, hypertrophy of, 195.
Liver, inflammation of, 192.
Liver, parasites of, 196.
Liver-rot, 196.
Liver, softening of, 195.
Liver, tubercle of, 195.
Lock-jaw, 250.
Loins, injuries to, 204.
Loins, laceration of the mus-
cles beneath the,.322..
Index.
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Losses from contagious dis-| Mammitis, 237.
eases, 2.
Loss of veins, 120.
Lower jaw, dislocation of, 318.
Lower jaw, fracture of, 316.
Lung, apoplexy of, 94.
Lungs, bleeding from, 97.
Lung, collapse of, 324.
Lungs, congestion of, 87, 110.
Lung fever of cattle, 14.
Lungs, inflammation of, 88.
Lung-worms, 99.
Lymphadenoma, 200.
Lymphangitis, 121.
Lymphangitis, local, 123.
Lymphatics, diseases of, 121.
Lymphatics, inflammation of,
121.
Madness in dogs, 28.
Maggots, 282.
Malignant anthrax, 32.
Malignant anthrax, local treat-
_ ment of, 41.
Malignant anthrax, prevention
of, 42.
Malignant anthrax, treatment
of, 40.
Malignant anthrax with exter-
nal swellings, 35.
Malignant catarrh, 78.
Malignant cholera, 24.
Malignant pustule, 38.
Malignant sore-throat, 37.
Mallenders, 272.
Malleolus, fracture of, 359.
Mal-presentation, 227.
Mammze, diseases of, 236.
Mamma, tumors of, 239.
Man, anthrax in, 33, 38.
Man, aphthous fever in, 11.
Mange, 277.
Man, glanders in, 45.
Man, -hydrophobia in, 29.
Manifolds, impacted, 144.
Matter in the guttural pouches,
(ae
Matter in the nasal sinuses, 76.
Maxims, obstetric, 227.
Measles (parasitic) in cattle,
58 5 In swine, 56.
Medicines, action of, 396; as
affected by age, 397 ; as af-
fected by disease, 398; as
affected by idiosyncrasy,
398; as affected by genus,
398, 400.
Medicines, doses of, 400.
Medicines, explanation
names of, 396.
Medicines, form to administer,
398.
Medicines, frequency of ad-
ministration of, 398.
Megrims, 249.
Melanosis, 274.
Mellituria, 184.
Melophagus ovina, 283.
Membrane lining the chest,
inflammation of, 90.
Membrane of the abdomen,
inflammation of, 169.
Mercurial, sore mouth, 125,
127.
Mesenteric glands, pentastoma
(linguatula) in, 99.
of
Metacarpus, periostitis of, 336,
418
Metritis, 233.
Microsporion Adouinii, 276.
Miliary tuberculosis, 47.
Milk, bloody, 236.
Milk, blue, 236.
Milk, concretions from, 238.
Milk fever, 234.
Milking tube, 238.
Milk, viscid, 236.
Milt, diseases of, 199.
Moon blindness, 244.
Moor-ill, 187.
Morbid growths, 392.
Mouth, inflammation of, 125.
Mouth, tumors in, 128.
Muco-enteritis, 157.
Muguet, 127.
Muscles, diseases of, 312.
Muscles, general diseases of,
293.
Muscles, inflamed, 312.
Muscles, ruptures of, 312.
Muzzle for crib-biting, 130.
Myelitis, 255.
Myelitis, enzootic, 257,
Myositis, 312.
Nails, pricks and binding with,
382.
Nasal catarrh, 75.
Nasal sinuses, matter in, 76.
Navicular disease, 371.
Neck bones, fractures of, 320.
Neck of the bladder, spasm
of, 207.
Necrosis, 296, 299.
Necrosis, symptoms of, 297.
Nephritis, 205.
Index.
Nervous diseases,
causes of, 247.
Nervous disorder from ergot-
ism, 63.
Nervous disorders from liver
disease, 183.
Nervous irritation of the skin,
273.
Nervous system, diseases of,
247,
Neurosis of the skin, 273.
Nodular swelling of the skin,
272.
Non-presentation of head or
members, 228, 229.
Nose, bleeding from, 75.
Nose, fracture of, 317.
Nose, parasites in, 98.
Nose, pentastoma in, 99.
Nose, tumors in, 78.
Nostril, abscess of, 77.
general
Oat-hair calculi, 153.
Obstruction of the bowels,
163.
(Estrus bovis, 282.
(Estrus equi, 171.
(Estrus ovis, 98.
Oidium batracosis, 277.
Open coffin-joint, 383.
Open joint, 308, 309.
Open joint, between upper and
lower jaw, 318.
Ophthalmia, enzootic, 242.
Ophthalmia, internal, 243.
Ophthalmia, recurring, 244,
Ophthalmia, simple, 241.
Optic nerve, palsy of, 246.
Nephritis, desquamative, 206. | Orchitis, 218.
Index.
Ostitis, symptoms of, 296.
Ostitis, treatment of, 298.
Overgrown teeth, 130.
Overloaded paunch, 142.
Ox tick, 281.
Ozone as a disinfectant, 4.
Palate, congested, 126.
Palpation, 108. |
Palpitation, 109.
Palsy, 258.
Palsy, local, 259.
Palsy of a lateral half of the
body, 259.
Palsy of the ear, 259.
Palsy of the face, 259.
Palsy of the hind limbs, 259.
Palsy of the nerve of sight,
246.
Pampering, a cause of liver
disease, 183.
Pancreas, diseases of, 199.
Paralysis from ergotism, 63.
Paralysis from lathyrus sati-
vus, 84.
Paralysis, general, 258.
Paralysis of the bladder, 208.
Papules, 266.
Paraphymosis, 222.
Paraplegia, 259, 321.
Parasites, 51.
Parasites in the nose, 98.
Parasites on the skin, 274.
Parasites in arteries, 118, 119.
Parasites in the heart, 116.
Parasites in the lower air-pas-
Sages, 99.
Parasites in the stomach, 171.
Parasitic acari, 277.
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Parasitic grease, 277.
Parotid, inflammation of, 136.
Parotitis, 136.
Parrot mouth, 129.
Parturient apoplexy, 234.
Parturition, assistance in, 227.
Parturition, difficult, 225 ; dis-
orders following, 230.
Parturition fever, 234.
Parturition, premature, 223.
Pastern, bony growth on the,
344,
Pastern, fractures of the, 343.
Pastern, sprains behind the,
346.
Patella, dislocation of, 353.
Paunch, overloaded, 142.
Paunch, tympany of, 140.
Pedal bone, distortions of,
384,
Pedal sesamoiditis, 383.
Pelvis, fractures of, 347.
Penis, amputation of, 220.
Penis, disease of, 219.
Penis, ulcers on, 220.
Pentastoma tenioides, 76, 99.
Percussion, 73.
Perforans, sprain of, 358.
Pericarditis, 112.
Periodic ophthalmia, 244.
Periosteotomy, 336.
Periostitis, symptoms of, 297.
Periostitis, treatment of, 298.
Peritonitis, 169.
Pharyngeal anthrax, 37.
Pharyngitis, 79.
Phlebitis, 120.
Phlebitis, diffuse, 120.
Phosphatic calculi, 153.
420
Phrenitis, 254.
Phymosis, 222.
Physical signs of chest diseases,
73.
Pigs, lung-worms in, 104.
Piles, 167.
Piles from liver disease, 183.
Pimples, 266.
Pin worms in arteries, 119.
Pining, 47.
Pityriasis, 272.
Pityriasis, parasitic, 276.
Plague, Russian cattle, 12.
Plagues of Egypt, 1.
Plagues, propagation of, 2.
Pleure, gas in, 92.
Pleure, inflammation of, 90.
Pleurisy, 90.
Pleurodynia, 94.
Pleuro-pneumonia, 92.
Pleuro-pneumonia contagiosa,
14,
Plugging the nose, 76.
Plugging of arteries, 118, 120.
Pneumonia, 88.
Pneumothorax, 92.
Podo-trochilitis, 371.
Poisoning by lead, 261.
Poll evil, 319.
- Poll, fracture of, 317.
Polypus in the vagina, 227.
Polyuria, 203.
Porcelaneous deposit, 307.
Pork tapeworm, 57.
Premature labor pains, 226.
Presentations, abnormal, 227.
Prevalence of contagious dis-
eases, .2.
Pricks, 382.
Index.
Profuse staling, 203.
Prolapsus uteri, vagine, 232.
Propagation of animal plagues,
2.
Proud flesh, 290.
Prurigo, 273.
Puffs in front of the knee, 331.
Pulmonary congestion, 87.
Pulmonary inflammation, 89.
Pulse in disease, 107.
Pulse, its characters, 106.
Pumice feet, 378.
Purgatives, administration of,
398,
Purpura, 94.
Purpura hemorrhagica, 18, 67,
Pustules, 268.
Pustules in the heels, 270.
Quadrupeds, pulse in, 106.
Quarter-crack, 378.
Quittor, 380, 387.
Rabies, 28 ; dumb, 30 ; furious,
30; lethargic, 30 ; paralytic,
30.
Rabies, fallacies concerning,
oils
Rat-tailed maggots, 174.
Rectum, eversion of, 167.
Rectum, inflammation of, 160.
Recurring ophthalmia, 244,
Red-water, 186.
Renal calculus, 213.
Respiratory organs, diseases
of, 72.
Retained afterbirth, 230.
Retinitis, 243.
Rheumatism, 65, 94.
Index.
421
Rheumatism of the heart, 112,|Scrofulous disease of bones,
114.
Ribs, fractures of, 93, 323.
Rickets, 301.
Rinderpest, 12.
Ringbones, 344.
Ringworm, 274.
Ringworm, honey-comb, 275.
Ripe grain, effects of, 144.
Roaring, 83.
Rot, 196.
Roup, &2.
Rupture, 164,
Rupture of the heart, 115.
Russian cattle plague, 12.
Saccharine urine, 184.
Saccular gullet, 140.
Sacrum, fracture of, 322.
St. Guy’s dance, 249,
St Vitus’s dance, 249.
Salivary calculi, 135.
Salivary fistula, 135.
Salivation, 134. _
Sallenders, 272.
Sand-crack, 378.
300.
Scrotum, dropsy of, 219.
Seedy toe, 388.
Sensation, loss of, 258.
Sesamoiditis, 340.
Sesamoiditis of the foot, 371.
Sesamoiditis, pedal, 383.
Sesamoid ligaments, sprains
of, 341.
Shank-bone, fracture of, 337.
Shank-bone, inflammation of,
336. .
Sheath, swollen, 221.
Sheath, tumors of, 219.
Sheep and goats, lung-worms
in, 103.
Sheep, carbuncular erysipelas
pile
Sheep-pox, 8.
| Sheep, tapeworm in, 58.
| Sheep-tick, 283.
Shoeing, effects of, 365.
‘| Shoeing, maxims for, 369.
Shot of grease, 121.
‘Shoulder, abscess in, 324, 328,
Sand-like deposit in the blad-|Shoulder-joint, disease of, 327.
der, 216.
Sarcoptes, 277.
Sarcoptes equi, 278,
Scab, 277.
Scabies, 277.
Scald-head, 275.
Scalds, 291.
Sealy skin affections, 272.
Scarlatina, 69.
Scirrhus, 393.
Scouring, 160.
Scratches, 270-272.
Shoulder lameness, 324.
Shoulder slip, 326.
Shoulder sprain, 325.
Shoulder, tumors on, 324.
Siberian boil plague, 35.
Side bones, 374, 380.
Simple ophthalmia, 241.
Sinuses of the head, matter
im;-'76,
Sitfasts, 274.
Skin, congestion of, 266,
422
Index.
Skin disease from buckwheat,| Spinal cord, inflammation of,
269.
255.
Skin disease from honey-dew,| Spinal meningitis, 185, 255.
269.
Skin diseases, divisions of, 264.
Skin diseases, general causes
and treatment, 265.
Skin, inflammation of, 266.
Skin, nervous irritation of,
273.
Skin, nodular swellings of, 272.
Skin, parasitic diseases of, 274.
Skin, scaly affection of, 272.
Slavering, 134.
Sleepy staggers, 252.
Slings, 306.
Slobbers, 134.
Sole, bruises of, 381.
Soles, convex, 378.
Sole, wounds of, 383.
Sore mouth, 125.
Sore shins, 336.
Sore teats, 239.
Sore-throat, 79.
Sore-throat, malignant, 37.
Spasmodie colic, 154.
Spasm of the neck of the blad-
der, 207.
Spavin, blood, 361, 362.
Spavin, bog, 361.
Spavin, bone, 360.
Spavin, occult, 360.
Spaying, 223.
Speedy-cut, 333.
Spermatic cord, strangulated,
221.
Spermatic cord, tumors on,
222,
Spleen, diseases of, 199.
Spleen, enlarged from liver dis-
ease, 183.
Splenic apoplexy, 39.
Splenic fever, 26.
Splint-bones, fracture of, 337.
Splints, 335.
Sprains, 313.
Sprain above the knee, 331.
Sprains behind the fetlock,
340.
Sprains behind the pastern,
346.
Sprains below the fetlock, 341.
Sprain of tendon in front of
the hock, 358.
Sprains of the back and loins,
321,
Sprains of the back tendons,
338.
Sprain of the flexor of the
hock, 355.
Sprain of the hamstring, 356.
Sprain of the hip, 348.
Sprain of the muscles outside
the shoulder, 326.
Sprain of the radial ligament,
331.
Sprain of the shoulder, 325.
Sprain of the suspensory liga-
ment, 339.
Sprain of the tendons behind
the knee, 331.
Staggers, 249.
Staggers, parasitic, 52,
Staggers, sleepy, 252.
| Index. 3
Stephanurus dentatus, 59.
Stiff-joint, 307.
Stifle, disease of, 354.
Stifle, fracture into the, 352.
Stocking, 270.
Stomach, foreign bodies in,
152.
Stomach and bowels, catarrh
oF 151:
Stomachs in oxen, inflamed,
146.
Stomach staggers, 260.
Stomatitis, 126 ; aphthous, 127.
Stone in the bladder, 211.
Strangles, 17.
Strangulated cord, 221.
Stricture of the gullet, 140.
Stricture of the urethra, 210.
String-halt, 363.
- Strongylus elongatus, 100.
Strongylus filaria, 99.
Strongylus micruris, 100.
Strongylus rufescens, 100.
Sturdy, 52.
Sulphate of copper as a disin-
423
Swelled legs, 270.
Swelling of the sheath, 221.
Swine, carbuncular erysipelas
in, 37.
Swine, guttural tumors in, 37.
Swine, intestinal fever of, 25.
Swine, lard-worm of, 59.
Swine, malignant sore-throat
in, 37,
Swine, measles in, 37.
Swine-pox, 9.
Syngamus trachealis, 100.
Synovitis, 307.
Syphon for injecting the nose,
76.
Tenis, 51.
Teenia ccenurus, 52.
Tenia echinococcus, 55.
Tenia expansa, 58.
Tenia mediocanellata, 58.
Teenia solium, 57.
Tail, amputation of, 323.
Tail, fracture and dislocation
of, 323.
fectant, 6; of iron, 6; of |Tapeworm, embryo, 52.
zine, 6.
Sulphur fumes as a disinfect-
ant, 5.
Tapeworm from measley pork,
57.
Tapeworms, 51.
Sun’s rays as a cause of skin |Tapeworms, fertility of, 52.
disease, 266.
Sun-stroke, 262.
Superfluous limbs, 229.
Supernumerary teeth, 129.
Tapeworm of sheep and cat-
tle, 58.
Tapeworms,
of, 52.
transformations
Suppuration, tendency to in|Tar as a disinfectant, 5.
different animals, 290.
Tartar on teeth, 133.
Suspensory ligament, sprain |Taurocholic acid, poisoning
of, 339.
Sweeny, 326.
by, 183.
Index.
424
Teat, closure by a membrane,| Tinea decalvans, 276.
238.
Teat, polypus in, 238.
Teats, scabs on, 239.
Teat, stricture of, 238.
Teat, thickening of its walls,
238.
Teat-tube, 238.
Teats, warts on, 239.
Teeth, caries of, 131.
Teeth, disease of, 76.
Teeth, displaced, 130.
Teething, fever from, 133.
Teeth, overgrown, 130.
Teeth, supernumerary, 129.
Teeth, tartar on, 133.
Teeth, tumors of, 133.
Tendinous sheaths, inflamed,
310.
Tendons, calcification of, 314.
Tendons, shortening of, 314.
Tendons, thickening of, 314.
Terms, explanation of, 396.
Testicle, inflammation of, 218.
Tetanus, 250.
Texan fever, 26.
Thece, inflamed, 311.
Thigh-bone, fractures of, 351.
Thigh, long muscle of, dis-
placed, 349.
Thoroughpin,
358.
Thoroughpin of the hock, 358.
Thoroughpin of the knee, 331.
Thrush, 127, 388.
Thumps, 109.
Tibia, fracture of, 354.
Tick of sheep, 283.
Ticks, 282.
bandage for,
Tinea favosa, 275.
Tinea tonsurans, 274.
Tongue, cancer of, 128.
Tongue, cysts beneath the, 128.
Tongue, inflamed, 127.
Tongue, laceration of, 128.
Tooth-like tumors under the
ear, 318.
Tooth-rasp, 131.
Tooth-socket, inflamed, 133.
Tracheotomy, 19.
Treads on the coronet, 386.
Trembling, 257.
Trichina spiralis, 60.
Trichiasis, 59, 240.
Trichodectes, 284.
Trichophyton tonsurans, 275.
Trismus, 250.
Tubercle, 47.
Tubercle in bone, 300.
Tubercules, 272.
Tuberculosis, 47, 110.
Tuberculous foot-rot, 391.
Tumors in the mouth, 128.
Tumors in the nose, 78.
Tumors, malignant, 393.
Tumor of bone, 296.
Tumors of teeth, 133.
Tumors of the cornea, 242.
Tumors of the elbow, 328.
Tumors of the mamma, 239.
Tumors of the sheath, 219.
Tumors on the shoulder, 324.
Tumors on the spermatic cord,
222.
Tumors, simple, 393.
Turn-sick, 52.
Tympanitic colic, 149, .
Index.
Tympany of the rumen, 140.
Variola canina, 10.
Tympany of the stomach in} Variola capre, 9.
horses, 148.
Typhoid fever, 94.
Typhoid fever in horses, 21.
Typhus, 36.
Tyroglyph, 279.
Udder, congestion of, 237.
Udder, inflammation of, 237.
Ulceration in joints, 307.
Ulceration of bone, 296, 299.
Ulceration of bone, symptoms
Of 297.
Ulceration of the neck bones,
320.
Uleers of the eye, 242.
Unripe seeds, their effects, 260.
Upper jaw, fracture of, 317.
Urethra, inflammation of, 209.
Urethral calculus, 215.
Urethra, stricture of, 210.
Urethritis, 209.
Uretral calculus, 214.
Urinary calculi, 211.
Urinary diseases, general
causes of, 201.
Urinary diseases, general
symptoms of, 201.
Urinary organs, diseases of,
201.
Vagina, catarrh of, 231.
Vagina, eversion of, 232.
Vagina, polypus in, 227.
Valves of the heart, insuffi-
ciency of, 115.
Varicose veins, 121.
Variola avis, 10.
Variola equina, 6.
Variola ovina, 8.
Variola suilla, 9.
Variola vaccina, 7.
Veins, air in, 121.
Veins, dilated, 121.
Veins, diseases of, 119,
Veins, inflammation of, 120.
Veins, wounds of, 119.
Venereal disease of solipeds,
46.
Verminous
103, 104.
Vertigo, 249.
Vesicles, 267.
Vetches, a cause of roaring,
84,
Viscid milk, 236.
Voluntary motion, loss of, 258.
Volvulus, 163.
Vomiting, 151.
bronchitis, 101,
Warbles, 282.
Warts, 274.
Warts on the lips, 128.
Wasting from ergotism, 64.
Wasting of the heart, 111.
Water-brain, 52.
Water in the abdomen in par-
—turition, 230.
Water in the chest, 90, 92.
Water in the head in parturi-
tion, 229.
Water stones, 219.
Watery blood, 70.
Weed, 121.
White scour, 147.
426 Index.
Wind-broken, 96. Wounds, 289. :
Windgalls, 340. Wounds, bruised, 290.
Wind-sucking, 129. Wounds, healing of in differ-
Wolf-teeth, 129. ent animals, 289.
Wowb, bleeding from, 230. | Wounds, irritated, 123.
Womb, catarrh of, 231. Wounds, lacerated, 290.
Womb, eversion of, 232. Wounds of the chest, 98, 324.
Womb, indurated neck of, 226.| Wounds, poisoned, 291.
Womb, inflammation of, 233. | Wounds, punctured, 290.
Womb, twisting of the neck) Wounds of the heart, 112.
of, 226. Wounds of the sole, 383.
Wood-evil, 180. Wounds of veins, 119.
Wood-tar as a disinfectant, 5.| Wounds, putrefying, 123.
Wool-balls, 153. Wrong presentations, 227,
Worms in the digestive canal,
174. Yellows, 189.
Worms, treatment of, 181.
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