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
In the first group, two of the birds showed cestodes, one a tænia, the
other not examined for identification; three showed coiled filaria in
the air sacs, two, tropidocerca in the proventricular wall and five had
coiled filaria in the serosa of the stomach. The second group was
infested five times with Halteridium and five times with embryo filariæ.
Anemia was associated with gastrointestinal inflammation alone only
once, the remaining five cases having other finding of greater
significance. The three birds of the next group concerned one with
tuberculosis, one with mycosis and one with a long continued abscess. It
seemed worthwhile to separate four cases of anemia in which nephritis
was a prominent association, in three indeed being the only other
diagnosis. While it is impossible to state that either is dependent upon
the other, and they may of course be coincidental, it is nevertheless
noteworthy that such an obscure relation occurs here as well as in human
pathology. In one of these birds seen recently there was in all
probability a distinct hemoglobin anemia suggested by jaundice, pallor
of the tissues, absence of pigmentations and the finding of large pale
erythrocytes in the heart blood. The last group is a mixed one including
some birds in which only anemia was diagnosed, others with prolonged
hemorrhages, two tumors, intestinal sand, congestion of the lungs and
the like.
The parrots and their relatives are represented by nine specimens, among
which two had proventricular spiroptera, two had long standing
tuberculosis and two had osteomalacia. The notes of the other three are
not sufficient to warrant deductions.
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