Disease in captive wild mammals and birds : $b incidence, description, comparisonFox, Herbert
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Disease in captive wild mammals and birds : $b incidence, description, comparison
Fox, Herbert
Veterinary medicine
Columbæ are not susceptible to disease in the parts under consideration.
This order seems to have some tissue resistance, for their lesions are
quite frankly catarrhal, more so than in most grain-eating birds.
The figures set against the Galli are swollen by the number of cases of
enterohepatitis of one sort or another. Extracting these from the total
leaves the order among the lowest. Their lesions are congestive and
hemorrhagic, although they may show catarrhal cases. They seem to be
able to summon mucus more readily than many other birds.
Anserine birds, though not very high in figures, present three
conditions worthy of note. In the first place, acute simple gastritis
occurs often, sometimes associated with foul green food, sometimes
without any apparent cause. From the number of times that foreign bodies
are present it seems probable that they contribute in some way.
Excessive stones and sand, bits of glass, collar buttons and the like
are sometimes found. Then the form of acute enteritis has always a
hemorrhagic tendency, at least in the submucosa, while the mucosa may be
swollen, opaque and covered with mucus. Upon histological study these
intestines show intense swelling by cellular infiltrate and
disappearance of the tips of the villi. The third observation concerns
what is apparently a subacute or chronic process although this is not
supported by microscopy. Certain birds will have a cast of mucus and
epithelial detritus rather closely adherent to the wall. Under the
microscope there may be slight evidence of chronic inflammation or there
may be little amiss. These birds have usually been large ones, and
several have come from the separate goose pens, not from the open lake
where many birds are kept.
The struthious birds deserve a word. They have had a great deal of
enteritis and mostly of infectious nature. Two instances have arisen
from bird diphtheria, one from cholera and six from what later seemed to
have been anthrax but was not diagnosed at the time. The character of
the lesions in the struthious intestine tends to be hypertrophic and
superficially erosive if not ulcerative. The changes are found with
greatest clearness in the lower duodenum and small coil.
CONSTIPATION.
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