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
Barbary Ape ♀ (_Macacus innuus_). Found dead. Never known to be sick.
On exhibition nine years. Acute dilatation of stomach. Acute
gastritis. Portal cirrhosis of liver. Acute parenchymatous nephritis.
Chronic passive congestion of lungs. Chronic splenitis and
perisplenitis. Ascites. Mild passive congestion of abdominal
circulation. On opening the abdomen a dilated stomach occupies most of
the anterior part, displacing the intestines downward and backward.
The upper lobes of both lungs are uniformly deep red, soft, collapsed,
subcrepitant. Subclavian vessels—veins distended with red clot,
arteries with small amount of chicken fat clot. The heart is dilated
on the right side, filled with currant jelly clot. The liver is small,
surface hobnailed, edges rough, consistency tough, color brown.
Section surface glistening, moist, granular and opaque, mottled by
irregular brown areas separated by paler brown intercommunicating
bands. Gall-bladder is small, contains viscid yellow bile and duct is
patulous. Areolar tissue about the bile ducts is thick and opaque, the
duct wall itself is thick and yellow. Gall-bladder tightly attached to
capsule of liver. Spleen is slightly enlarged, soft and tough. Capsule
is smooth, opaque and thickened on gastric surface. The trabeculæ are
prominent, pulp mottled gray-red, few recent hemorrhages. Capsule of
the kidneys is smooth, strips easily leaving a smooth brown surface
with dilated vessels. Organ is soft. Section surface is glistening,
striæ wide and indistinct, glomeruli faintly visible. Microscopic
section of liver shows high grade of fibrosis almost entirely confined
to portal areas with a marked increase in bile ducts although no place
is found where these bile ducts are running into lobules suggesting
attempt at regeneration. Liver cells show high grade of fatty
degeneration in some places, whole lobules being necrotic. There is no
pigmentation and connective tissue is fairly rich in cells. Fibrosis
quite well advanced. Cells about equally fibroblasts, round cells and
polynuclears. Bile ducts very well preserved and cellular infiltrate
rather less directly around them than at other parts of connective
tissue. The section of kidney shows moderate congestion, granular and
vacuolar degeneration of epithelium generally distributed except in
proximal tubules where there is swelling and desquamation. Detritus
present in tubules and capsular spaces. Tufts swollen.
The biliary forms of Primates were associated in one case with an
undetermined parasite in the bile channels, in the other with
tuberculosis and chronic enteritis. In all the cases the relative
inconspicuousness of bile in ducts or in cells is worthy of mention. The
perilobular fibrosis in a small cebus was trifling in extent but was
associated with considerable round cell infiltration in isolated areas;
there was also nephritis, splenitis, and enteritis.
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