Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 1 (of 5)Law, James
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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 1 (of 5)
Law, James
Veterinary medicine
Symptoms of _nervous disorder_ are too numerous to be here traced to
local lesions. Motor paralysis of one limb may, however, suggest injury
to its motor nerves, to the same side of the spinal cord, or of the
opposite half of the cerebrum. Paraplegia almost always indicates injury
to the cord. Sensory paralysis of one side may depend on disease of the
opposite corpus striatum. The animal moves in a circle when a tumor
(coenurus in sheep) exists in the roof of the lateral ventricle
presumably pressing on the ganglia on its floor. An animal rolls on its
axis when there is a lesion of the median cerebral peduncles, of the
supero-external portion of these peduncles, of the posterior part of the
encephalon, or of different parts of the hemisphere. Amaurosis suggests
disease of the corpora quadrigeminia. Loss of coördination of muscular
movement usually implies some lesion of the cerebellum. Vertigo may
imply disease of the encephalon (congestion, anæmia, inflammation,
dropsy, hæmorrhage, tumor, abscess); it may be disease of the internal
ear; it may be digestive disorder connected often with cryptogamic
poisoning; it may be heart disease with obstruction of the jugular
veins; it may be parasites in the nasal sinuses; or it may be disease of
the eye. Coma occurs in most congestions and pressures on the
encephalon, and like vertigo in poisoning by alcohol, solanine, monoxide
of carbon, etc. In acting on any ganglionic centre the agent may,
according to its degree, operate positively or negatively, producing
spasms, or paralysis as the case may be. As in the case of other
visceral affections the specific diseases must be referred to for
particular symptoms.
For the more precise points in diagnosis, including chemical, physical,
electrical and instrumental methods, etc., the reader is referred to the
special diseases.
PROGNOSIS.
Definition. Demands on the veterinarian, the question of economy.
Basis of Prognosis. Cause of the illness, internal or external, vital
or nonvital organ, enzootic, fatigue, infection, in one or two
symmetrical vital organs, regular or irregular in its course,
persistence, relapse, complications, effect of treatment, appetite,
temperature, pulse, breathing, youth, age, debility, previous disease,
breeding, climate, season.
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