The farmers' medical dictionary for the diseases of animals / By Cuthbert W. Johnson, Esq. F.R.S.

  • Johnson, Cuthbert W. (Cuthbert William), 1799-1878.
Date:
1845
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Credit: The farmers' medical dictionary for the diseases of animals / By Cuthbert W. Johnson, Esq. F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • CHOKING. founded is inflammation of the lungs; and, as the treatment of the two is in some particulars so ditferent, the farmer should be enabled readily to distinguish between them. If a little care be used this will not be difticult. The febrile nature of the pulse, the early discharge from the nose, the want of intense redness in the lining of the nose, the frequent and painful cough, the enlargement of the glands, and soreness of the throat, the rapid loss of strength, the sometimes constant, and at others variable, warmth of the legs, fidgettiness and bowing, will sufficiently distinguish catarrhal fever from the oppressed pulse, red nostrils, heaving flank, little cough, fixedness of limbs, and coldness of the extremities which accompany and charac- terise inflammation of the lungs.^’ — On the Horse p. 191. CHOKING—Or obstruction of the gullet. This is an accident most common in cattle, but it occurs occasionally with horses, and when it does happen is more often fatal with them than with cattle. The horse, if feeding himself, will rarely attempt to swallow pieces of food too large to pass the gullet. \Iany cases, however, have occurred when grooms and other horsekeepers have attempted to pass eggs, and other impro- per substances, down the animal’s throat, for the purpose of improving their coats, that they have stuck in the passage. In such cases, the com- mon way to remove the obstruction was, and is still in many places, to pass a cart-whi}), or cart-rope, or osier stick, or even a rack stave,