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
Although the notes fail to discuss the gross appearance of the bone
marrow, the amount of alteration in its microscopy and the relatively
small output of pigment in the liver, seem to substantiate the
determination of aplastic anemia; it is unfortunate that the blood
smears could not be used in the decision. At all events the condition of
the intestinal tract, of the heart, liver, spleen, and adrenal, justify
us in classing the case as one of primary anemia. The next and last
instance is of the same type, although I am inclined now to differ from
the diagnoses made at the autopsy table, that of aplastic anemia, and to
place it in the hemolytic variety. The rapidity of the fatal attack, the
redness of the marrow, the excessive pigmentation, and the prominence of
recent degenerative lesions in the organs are much more like the changes
of a primary hemolytic intoxication than of an aplastic anemia.
Gray Fox (_Canis cinereo_). ♂ Weight four pounds, adult, was in the
exhibition two years, but in good condition until two weeks before
death, when it stopped eating and rapidly fell away.
DIAGNOSIS.—(Aplastic) Primary anemia. Zenker’s Hyaline of heart and
skeletal muscles. Mucoid degeneration of bone marrow. Congestion of
bone marrow. Atrophy of hemopoietic elements in bone marrow.
Hemosiderin pigmentation of liver. Atrophy of liver. Congestion of
liver. Congestion and fatty infiltration of kidney. Patulous lumina in
adrenal and absence of pars glomerulosa.
External appearance of coat good. Decomposition advanced in
intestines. Skin and subcutaneous tissue faintly yellow. Poorly
developed, dark muscles and fat. Respiratory tract normal throughout.
Pericardium glistening, transparent, and pale, with no adhesions.
Heart a little too pale, consistency slightly soft. Normal or slightly
increased size of liver, with smooth surface and sharp edges,
consistency friable, and of a brownish red with rusty coloring. Spleen
normal. Kidney normal in size, shape, location, and consistency.
Capsule strips easily, and of a faintly yellow, under general red,
coloring. Adrenal normal. Mouth and teeth normal. Stomach, serosa and
wall normal. Mucosa shiny, autolytic, muddy red. Ileum, agminated
follicles swollen. Feces from colon examined microscopically. Pancreas
normal. Bone marrow tibia and femur gelatinous and red, not slightest
trace of yellow. Blood films from heart’s blood show poikilocytosis
and anisocytosis; only one nucleated red.
Microscopic Notes.—Heart has torn but normal pericardium. No
abnormalities of interstitial tissue or vessels. Fibres of normal
width but show transverse markings irregularly since cytoplasm becomes
hyaline and swollen in many places along its course. Nuclei prominent,
slightly pyknotic. Zenker’s Hyaline.
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