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
Among the Aves the following cases only are worthy of report. A parrot
(_Melopsittacus undulatus_) was found to have a tightly packed mass of
worms in the end of the duodenum above which the bowel was distended,
elongated, doubled on itself and of a deep red color; below this the
small intestine was empty. A closely similar condition was found in a
Screech Owl (_Otus asio asio_) the obstruction occurring just above the
end of the small gut. A Sparrow Hawk (_Falco sparverius_) had an
invagination two cm. in length, a short distance above the end of the
small intestine. No peritonitis existed but the presence of an acute
enteritis helps to explain the intussusception.
HERNIA.
Hernia is not a common occurrence among the lower animals but our
experience is instructive in two particulars, to wit, its absence in the
orders preceding the Rodentia and the frequency of the traumatic
variety. There being no general remarks to be made upon the subject, it
seems well to give a summary of the findings in each of the seven cases.
A Western Fox Squirrel (_Sciurus rufiventer_) showed a diaphragmatic
defect on the right side, a rounded opening with smooth edges, through
which a loop of intestine had passed, entering behind the liver and
reaching into the pleura as high as the pulmonary apex where it was
adherent; this was probably of long standing. Two more loops were found
wedged in the diaphragmatic hole, one of which was gangrenous.
An Indian Antelope (_Black Buck_) (_Antilope cervicapra_) presented an
irreducible incarcerated but not strangulated umbilical hernia. The
peritoneum was fused with the aponeurosis at the ring but the gut was
not adherent at this point while it was attached within the sac outside
the muscle, thus forming the incarceration. Apparently the sac had
dissected between the muscular layers for it could be followed for
several centimetres in some directions. A Hog Deer (_Cervus porcinus_)
had apparently suffered an injury in the flank for at one point the
muscles were irregularly cicatrized and a rent was present through which
several loops of intestine and a band of omentum had escaped, being
adherent to fascia. No injury to the skin was apparent.
Another Indian Antelope showed a clean traumatic rupture of the muscle
_and peritoneum_ in the right inguinal region _without_ penetration of
skin. An acute hernia had occurred which was lightly adherent to fascia
and an acute peritonitis was beginning. The bowel was however not
strangulated.
An aoudad (_Ovis tragelaphus_) seems to have suffered an injury by a
pointed object (horn?) just to the right of the ensiform cartilage for
at this position there is a circular hole, with smooth healed edges, in
the aponeurosis, permitting the emersion of a peritoneal sac containing
omentum. All parts were adherent but no acute inflammation existed.
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