BOVINE NASAL GRANULOMA (SNORING DISEASE OF CATTLE)

                                     IN HYDERABAD STATE

                                                    BY

                                  M. R. MAHAJAN, M.R.C.V.S.,

Veterinary Investigation Officer, H. E. H. the Nizam's Dominions, Hyderabad.

              (Received for publication on the 23rd September 1933.)

                          (With Plate XXXII and one text-figure.)

This article is published because Nasal Granuloma, the causal organism of
which was first demonstrated by Datta in 1931, though known to exist in all the
surrounding British provinces, has not hitherto been reported from Hyderabad
State. Cases of Nasal Schistosomiasis confirmed by the Imperial Institute of
Veterinary Research, Muktesar, have however now been met with in the districts
of Warangal, Mahbubnagar and Asifabad, and reported from Raichur. Two of
these districts, viz., Warangal and Asifabad. are on the borders of the Dominions,
one touching the Madras Presidency and the other the Central Provinces, and it
will be shown later particularly in the case of Warangal, that the source of infection
may have come from the neighbouring British territorry.

The first case discovered was in Lingal, Mahbubnagar district, in January
1933 while I was conducting Rinderpest inoculation work. The subject was a
cow that showed typical symptoms of the disease. On examination of the nasal
washings the case was confirmed microscopically on the spot, but unfortunately,
there was not sufficient nasal discharge to forward to the Muktesar laboratory for
confirmation. This case, was effectively treated with intravenous injections of
tartar emetic which further proves my diagnosis.

It is also interesting to note that some schistosome parasites collected from a
number of goats under Rinderpest experiment at this place were found to be
Schistosoma spindalis, the reputed cause of nasal schistosomiasis in cattle.

The next discovery was in April 1933 at the village Inagol, Warangal district,
where the disease was so rampant as to affect no less than 25 animals. At this time
I was camping at a village called Menole for Rinderpest inoculation work and
a couple of cases were brought to my camp for treatment from Inagol and this
led to the discovery.

The local name given to the disease in these parts is ' Busa Rogam' (meaning
loud breathing in Telugu). The history was that the animals had been suffering
from this condition for about a year, the disease not having been noticed previous

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