| Show CAUSE OF COLT DISTE DISTEMPER disease affects horses only rarely attacking mules and donkeys how to treat animal ahr trouble commo commonis nii r call called ad colt distemper affects horses and rarely at cups and donkeys it Is such an in disease that nearly all horses contract tho the disease hen colts and usually remains immune to future arx r postures the cause la Is a ery small organism or germ which enters the a healthy colt coll comes in C contact intact nith mith a diseased one or hen fed and watered in Infect infected cd assets the seat of tho the trouble is largely re strict stricter ed to tho the respiratory organs oc cc caslo nilly nally causing difficulty in breath ing otting anning to swelling m region ol of throat or to accumulation in air pass the symptoms start star out with moio or less sluggishness the animal cats little and does not care to take much exercise A little watery dis chargo charge frequently appears irom from the eyes ees and about the file same time a wa nna tery discharge disch irge from rom the nostrils which soon becomes thicker and more sel lott IONN in color the fladds be aveen the lower sawbones jawbones jaw jaN bones become en an barged and undergo suppuration with a rupture ot of them and free discharge of 0 pus the ibe temperature of the ant am may may be slightly or very nery greatly increased Inc reaRed from to degrees I 1 A cauce of disease the pulsations may also be consider abla abl quickened when complication do not scour this disease usually run its course in two leaving tin th animal little ane morse for haling passed through the affliction the milder forms of this disease i a ill need little at or po no treatment other that thai careful feeding and nursing A tia tie diet something green if ifko po ible should be agnen the col cat should be placed in clean ally and aua comfortable quarters but not in 0 draught to histen hasten the suppuration of the glands poultice of hot bran or hayseed flaxseed ma fam be applied to that tb ii r region gon an and d as poon oon as softening c can if be detected N athin puncture the theal gladd ina containing abbess ab cess with a clean knik blade and allott the escape of the collection of 0 pus duria during the course of 0 the disease the animal should riot not be and care should bo be taken that it be not exposed to conditions likely to produce a cold |
