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
Pancreatitis has occurred in thirty-eight mammals and birds among the
5365 autopsies, an incidence of 0.7 per cent.; class incidence in
mammals twenty-seven or 1.5 per cent.; birds eleven or .3 per cent.
(Table 14.) Among the higher class all the important orders are
represented, but by no means in equal degree, whereas in the birds, less
than half of the orders are listed, with the important Psittaci missing,
despite a high death rate.
It is perhaps well to be guarded in stating the relative vulnerability
of the pancreas in various orders, but one cannot avoid the observation
that Carnivora stand well in advance of the others (3. per cent. of
autopsies), to be followed by Ungulata (1.9 per cent.) and Rodentia (1.7
per cent.). Nor can one fail to see that mammals have inflammations of
this organ five times as often as do birds.
TABLE 14.
_Showing Cases of Pancreatitis, their Pathological Nature, the Character
of Ducts of the Particular Animal, the Associated
Pathology, All of Which Data are Collected at the Bottom into Totals for
Zoological Classes and Orders._
════════════╤════════════╤════════════╤══════╤═════╤═════════════
Order │ Acute │ Chronic │Number│Open │Cholecystitis
│Hemorrhagic │Pancreatitis│ of │with │
│ or │ │Ducts │Bile │
│Necrotizing │ │ │Ducts│
│Pancreatitis│ │ │ │
────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼──────┼─────┼─────────────
Primates: │ │ │ │ │
Marmoset │ │Chr. Dif. │ 2 │ 1 │ 0
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │
Carnivora: │ │ │ │ │
Wolf │Ac. Hem. │ │ 1 │ 1 │ ?
Fox │Ac. Hem. │ │ 1? │ 1 │ 0
Bear │ │Chr. │ 1 │ 1 │ 0
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │
Raccoon │ │Chr. sl. │ 1? │ 1 │ 0
Bear │Ac. Nec. │ │ 1 │ 1 │ 0
Coati │Ac. Hem. │ │ 2 │ 1 │ 0
Badger │Hem. and │Chr. │ 2? │ 1 │ ?
Ocelot │Ac. Hem. │ │ 2 │ 1 │ +?
Bear │Ac. Hem. │ │ 1 │ 1 │ 0
Wild Cat │ │Chr. │ 2? │ 1 │ 0
Lion │Ac. Hem. │ │ 2? │ 1 │ 0
Skunk │Ac. Nec. │ │ 2? │ 1 │ ?
Raccoon │Ac. Nec. │ │ 1? │ 1 │ 0
│ │ │ │ │
Rodentia: │ │ │ │ │
Beaver │Ac. Hem. │ │ │ 1 │ 0
Porcupine │Ac. Hem.
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