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
Affections of the penis are limited to phimosis and occasional
inflammations on a traumatic basis. The latter is best seen in
carnivorous animals like raccoons and coatis, but has little
pathological interest. Two cases of phimosis have been seen at the
autopsy table and one in an animal (hyena) still living. The last was
operated upon some years ago and has given no trouble since. The prepuce
of this beast is seldom retracted, but no swelling or retention of urine
has occurred. A Red River Hog (_Potamochœrus porous_) dying of a variety
of lesions, was found to have contracted preputial opening, the edges of
which were tight and adherent to the glans penis at various spots. The
prepuce had been dilated with urine to a large size from which
collection the fluid could be pressed dropwise only by considerable
pressure. Opening the sac revealed forty to fifty gray white sand
granules about the size of millet seeds. A gray fox (_Canis cinereo
argenteus_) had a mild grade of phimosis; in this case probably
traumatism had some etiological relation, for it is the one referred to
before in which a terminal urethral stricture was followed by rupture of
the bladder.
The testes have been peculiarly free of disease, only a small number of
lesions having been found. A raccoon had an acute inflammation,
traumatic in origin, and a few passerine birds were noted as showing
involvement of this organ in the presence of some general infectious
diseases. Two tumors were found in birds, none in mammals. The avian
cases both occurred in Red shouldered Parrakeets (_Palæornis eupatrius_)
and were round cell sarcomata, without metastases.
Acute inflammations of the prostate and Cowper’s glands occurred only
once as secondary to pelvic infection. Chronic change was observed in
these bodies on two occasions, and prostatic hyperplasia, commonly
called hypertrophy, was seen thrice. The mammalian prostatic area is
known to become overfilled with secretion and to be affected by
inflammation when it is not discharged. This occurred in a wood rat
(_Neotoma pennsylvanica_) and a wild boar (_Sus scrofa_), the former
having the condition so marked that prostate and seminal vesicles were
swollen backward into the pelvis like a tumor. Histologically one finds
in these conditions an engorgement of the glandular and ductal spaces
with a mucoid substance and a mild round and plasma cell infiltrate in
the connective tissue; there are no marked evidences of active
inflammation. The testes were not abnormal in these cases.
The three cases of “hypertrophy” of the prostate are worthy of separate
record.
Indian Paradoxure (_Paradoxurus niger_) the prostate is greatly
enlarged, of pale orange color, soft and does not exude pus on section
or pressure.
Common Opossum (_Didelphys virginiana_) The prostate is enlarged,
soft, gray-yellow. Urethra contains a little gray mucus but seems
patulous. Seminal vesicles negative.
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