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
Herodiones showed eight cases of anemia, five herons, one bittern and
two storks. Parasites are noted in only three examples, herons, and it
is noteworthy that these all had flukes in the proventricle or
intestine; one also had ascarids in the proventricle. Two of this order
suffered with long standing inflammation following bone injuries.
Perhaps the outstanding features of this order are the erythrocytic
picture and the condition of the spleen. The red blood cells seem very
fragile or soft, for one often encounters in their fresh or stained
preparation vacuoles or rifts in the protoplasm surrounding the nucleus.
At first we thought these were hemosporidia, but repeated attempts at
their coloration and the absence of pigment granules seem to warrant an
assumption that they are artefacts. In five of the seven instances there
is very definite evidence of present or past activity of the spleen. We
have not always considered it sufficiently prominent to call it a
splenitis, but follicular activity is commonly discoverable, and two
cases of definite fibrosis are recorded. The sun bittern (_Eurypyga
helias_) showed a chronic interstitial nephritis in the atrophic stage.
No other of the wading birds showed secondary anemia. There are seven
cases among the pigeons (Columbæ) where anemic tissues attracted our
attention. Three were associated with osteomalacia, in one of which the
marrow picture was that of an aplastic form being everywhere pale and
flabby without cells under the microscope; it is further interesting in
this case that there was a distinct but ineffectual attempt at bony
regeneration by the periosteum. In another case, this time brought to
death by an enteritis and cloudy swelling of the viscera, the marrow was
hyperplastic and red, there being activity in the basic staining areas
of the head and in the shafts. (Notes of the third case scanty.) None of
the seven cases seems to have been associated with animal parasitism;
one had tuberculosis. The other cases are obscure and not definitely
connected with other pathology.
Ten more cases of anemia were scattered among seven orders. There is
nothing striking or even individual about them worthy of special
mention.
SUMMARY OF SECONDARY ANEMIA.
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