Cough, its artificial production, precautions, character in different
animals. Cough in disease, strong, full, ringing, weak, short, broken,
abortive, dry, rasping, croupy, small, husky, soft, humid, rattling,
mucous, paroxysmal, sympathetic, wheezing, roaring, whistling, grunt,
moan. Expectoration, nasal in horse, also buccal in other animals.
Morbid expectoration, watery, viscid, cloudy, flocculent, purulent,
rusty, cretaceous, parasitic, fœtid, varicolored, microbic. Expired
air, warm, cool, vegetable odor, acid, fœtid, heavy. Respiration,
number in health, alteration in disease, rapid, slow, tardy, short,
catching, quick, deep, labored. Position, standing, lying. Pleuritic
breathing, broken winded.
Before describing specific diseases, it is needful to consider the
methods of physical diagnosis which enable the practitioner to
differentiate the diseases of the chest. Some of the following remarks
will bear equally on diseases of the nose and throat as well.