Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 1 (of 5)

Chapter 41: COCCIDIAN CATARRH IN RABBITS.

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The volume systematically explains the principles and practice of veterinary medicine, distinguishing general and special pathology, morbid anatomy, and pathological chemistry, and defining disease. It outlines methods of diagnosis, symptomatology, prognosis, prophylaxis and therapeutics. Organized by organs and systems, it surveys diseases of the respiratory tract (nose, throat, lungs, pleura), the heart and circulation, and related parasitic and infectious conditions, with attention to clinical signs, percussion and auscultation, stages and complications. Emphasis is placed on prevention, sanitary measures, and practical treatment approaches for domestic animals.

COCCIDIAN CATARRH IN RABBITS.

Coccidia in rabbit’s nose, etc., inflammation, fatality. Treatment, sulphur dioxide.

Zurn describes a contagious catarrh of rabbits caused by the presence in the mucosa of the nose, pharynx, Eustachian tubes and middle ears of myriads of coccidia. They create acute irritation and prove fatal in many cases. Embedded in the mucosa they are difficult to reach with medicinal agents, yet the free parasites may be destroyed by frequent fumigations with sulphurous acid, or by spraying or injecting the nose with its solution.