Infrequency. Causes, damp lands, storms, close buildings, clipping.
Symptoms, cough, sneezing, discharge, snuffling, oral breathing,
tender throat. Treatment, ventilation, warm water vapor, sulphur
dioxide, salines.
Sore throat is fortunately even more rare than in the larger ruminants.
It occurs chiefly where this animal, constituted to feed on the dainty
grasses of the dry mountain side, is kept on cold, marshy ground and
exposed to frequent cold, wet blasts. Sheep suffer also from hot, close,
filthy buildings in winter, and from unseasonable clipping.
The _symptoms_ are frequent coughing and sneezing, running from the
nose, working of the jaws, and breathing through the open mouth as being
easier than through the plugged nostrils. The larynx is tender and may
be swollen.
_Treatment_ is usually confined to ventilation and cleansing of the
fold, frequent fumigations with water vapor from the spout of a boiling
kettle, and with sulphur fumes, and giving tepid farinaceous gruels or
mashes containing sulphate of soda in the daily proportion of two pounds
to each hundred head of sheep. Sal ammoniac may be given in food or
drinking water.