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Friedberger and Fröhner's Veterinary pathology : Authorised translation / Tr. and edited by M.H. Hayes with notes on bacteriology by G. Newman.

  • Friedberger, Franz, 1839-1902.
Date:
1898-
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Credit: Friedberger and Fröhner's Veterinary pathology : Authorised translation / Tr. and edited by M.H. Hayes with notes on bacteriology by G. Newman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    average mortality of strangles is about 3 per cent. Among un¬ favourable conditions we may mention: debility from previous illness, youth, and complications, especially metastatic pyaemia. Therapeutics.—In normal cases, it is sufficient to attend to hygiene, which consists in cleanliness, assiduous ventilation of the stable, and the administration of food which can be easily digested, such as “green meat,” mashes, and roots. It is useless to give febrifuges to reduce the initial high internal temperature, which will abate of itself under normal conditions in a few days. The treatment of the suppurating lymph glands is purely surgical; its essentia] principle being to open the abscesses with a long incision as early as possible, in fact, as soon as pus forms in them. The early discharge of the pus is quickly followed by a fall of the internal temperature, and evidently shortens the duration of the disease ; consequently we may reject the old custom of allowing the abscesses to “ ripen ” in a natural manner. If the swelling is indolent, we may stimulate the formation of pus by fomentations or blisters. We should open the abscess with caution on account of the proximity of numerous blood vessels, and should divide only the skin with the knife, and then work up to the abscess with the finger. Failing to penetrate the abscess, it is often necessary to make a second attempt in another direction in the event of our not wishing to explore with a trocar and cannula. For catarrh of the mucous membranes in strangles, practitioners generally use inhalations of steam and internal remedies, such as preparations of antimony (crude sulphide of antimony and orange), and alkalies (sulphate of soda, chloride of ammonium, bicarbonate of soda) combined with liquorice, honey, etc. If the catarrh proves obstinate, we may give in each feed a teaspoonful of the officinal artificial Ivarlsbad salt, or an electuary of sulphate of soda 250, crude sulphide of antimony 25, with liquorice powder and althma powder, twice a day. Complications must be treated according to their nature. Tracheotomy has sometimes to be performed to relieve excessive dyspnoea. For cases in which pharyngitis supervenes, Kagel re¬ commends the introduction of a strong indiarubber tube of about 00 centimetres in length into the nostrils as far as the upper end of the nasal cavity with subsequent injection of about 50 centi¬ metres of a disinfecting solution. From our own experience we can speak favourably of this local treatment. The separation of healthy animals from those which are affected, is necessary for prophylaxis.
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