PLEURO – PNEUMONIA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 439, 15 April 1880, Page 2

PLEURO - PNEUMONIA.

The following .suggestions regarding, the symptoms of plaurp-pneuraonfa are' by. the' Chief Inrpebtor of Sto;qkj Yiqtpria. *r(l)':. Attention, is first direoted.to'.'an•animal. suffering from pleuro by its standing' apart from other .'cattle, its uot feeding, and seldom lying- down' till just, before death. .(2); The' animal in the latter stages of the.disease has the stomaoh drawn up, the back arohed, legs. in. not quite their natural position,, nose .poked out, and head nearly held on the line with the back, so as to give the freest passage to the air inhaled. • (3):. On approaching, the breathing of. the beast is found to-be short and quiokeued, inhalation'is accompanied with a grunt or catoh jifma'de'to run a short distance a few. deep coughs are given. (4) : Rumination .ceases, though an occasional grinding of the teeth may.be,mistaken for it. -(5).: The eyeshave a glassy appearance, and in some oases run with water., (6),: .The. .nostrils are dry, and beads of moisture resembling dew, which ;are ;foundj.in_.the.v_muEde, disappear. (7): If the animal is sufficiently quiet to handle, it can be examined by placing the ear to its side, behind the elbow,'and tapping the ribs with, the tips.of- the fingers. -If pleuro exists, the sound which/follows will be a dull, one, such as when a.full cask is struck.; but if there is no pleuro, there will be a-hollow sound,- as when: an empty cask is .struck; It is important that both sides should be tested in ; this way, as it is seldom the case that both lungs are affected at. the aame time Another test is to presron the loins, or' on the sides between the rib bones, when the. animal, if diseased, will shrink with a grqnt. (8): There' is a strong opinion amongst veterinary author ritiesthat it is advisable to destroy animals affeoted with pleuro, as they are capable of affeoting others from bis to twelve months after .they have apparently recovered. One writer says:—" Considering the hopelessness of curative treatment, the loss thereby incurred, as the danger of infection, it will be mostSprofitable and least onerous to resort to slaughter." Another writer remarks:—" Animals live on,, but while they do so, and probubly while they exhibit unmistakeable signs .of health, may give out the seeds of poison to all .around." (9): Veterinarians also state that: there is danger .of ,infeotion from : aHowing the remains of animals which have died from pleuro'puennionia to lielunburnt or un-. buried. (10): Frora-thetime ofinfeotion until the first indications of pleuropneumonia are observable, authorities say-that there is a period varying fremlwenty to sixty days,- so .fyat.the-disease is far.advanced before it js noticeable. ■• ' '