BRONCHITIS.
Relation to other maladies of the air passages. Horse. Causes, susceptibility, heat, cold, sudden changes, thick coat, rebreathed air, on shipboard, in zoological gardens, in close stables, in navies, organic matter in expired air, water vapor in expired air, effect on the air and bacteria. Ingesta in bronchia. Medicinal liquids in bronchia in horses and cattle. Exposed locations. Clipping. Smoke and gaseous irritants. Symptoms, in mild cases, in severe: fever, cough in dry stage, after secretion, auscultatory sounds, percussion, discharge, watery, glairy, frothy, later milky, flocculent, purulent. Convalescence. Capillary and pseudo-membranous form. Intensity of symptoms, labored breathing, dyspnœa, violent cough, pinched countenance, dark mucosæ, perspirations, palpitations, asphyxia. Course, duration. Termination, difficult expectoration, blocking of bronchia, pneumonia, bowel susceptibility, skin congestion, laminitis. Chronic condition. Lesions, congestion and contents of bronchia, soft, thick, friable mucosa, absence of vascular ramification, tenacious mucus, false membranes. Collapse, atelectasis, splenisation, emphysema, bronchiectasis. Treatment, in mild cases, in severe, hygienic, steaming, sulphur dioxide, derivatives, guarded laxative, neutral salts, calmatives, expectorants, alkalies, stimulant, oxygen, peroxide of hydrogen, iodide of potassium. Diet. In advanced stages tonics.
Definition. Inflammation of the mucous membrane which lines the bronchia. It is the counterpart of coryza and laryngitis, being but the inflammation of another portion of the same mucous membrane which lines the whole respiratory track. That portion of this mucous membrane which lines the trachea is rarely or never the exclusive seat of inflammation, so that in case of its being implicated we do not speak of the case as one of tracheitis but as laryngitis or bronchitis, according as the throat or bronchia form the seat of active inflammatory action.
The bronchial mucous membrane is often inflamed in influenza, strangles, contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle, distemper in dogs, and parasitic diseases of the lungs, but the following remarks will be confined to the simple inflammatory affection. It appears as an acute and a chronic affection.