Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . be wiry ; the breathing is quick and pain-ful ; the elbows are turned out; the ribs are fixed, and the breathing doneby the abdominal muscles ; there is a crease, running from the elbowsalong the ribs towards the flanks, where the ribs join the cartilages of thechest. The inspirations are short and imperfect, but the expirat
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . be wiry ; the breathing is quick and pain-ful ; the elbows are turned out; the ribs are fixed, and the breathing doneby the abdominal muscles ; there is a crease, running from the elbowsalong the ribs towards the flanks, where the ribs join the cartilages of thechest. The inspirations are short and imperfect, but the expirationsare prolonged and more easily effected. Pressure between the ribscauses intense pain and a grunt, and on applying the ear to the sides agrating, rasping sound is heard, like rubbing dry sheep skin head is hung low, the ears droop, the nose is dry, and though the eyes are partly closed, thecountenance wears an anx-ious look. Rumination stops,the appetite is lost, the flanksare tucked up, there is a hack-ing, painful cough, and theanimal remains standing, withevidentdisinclination to are sharp, shootingpains through the chest, that make the animal turn his head around tohis sides. Unlike pneumonia, percussion on the ribs produces a clear,. ACUTE PLEURISY. DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. 847 resonant sound, the expired breath is not hot, the nostrils are not dilated,and there is no mucous rale. Pleurisy may terminate in resolution byabsorption, etc., the patient getting well very quickly, without any illeffects, or it may go on to the stage of great effusion, and terminate inhydrothorax. What to do.—If taken right at the start, give recipe No. 23, but if thefever is far advanced give No. 18. When the fever is subdued, giveNo. 20, if the appetite is poor ; if it is good, give No. 19. During con-valescence give No. 21. Apply mustard paste to the sides assiduously. VI. Hydrothorax. As explained in the last section, when the chest fills with water fro
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