Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)Law, James
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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)
Law, James
Veterinary medicine
=Eruptions and Ulcerations of Nervous Origin.= Herpes or shingles in man
is now recognized as a nervous disease, circumscribed to the
distribution of given nerves and occurring unilaterally or bilaterally.
Deep-seated dermatitis, vesicles, neuralgia, pain, itching and
formication are common accompaniments. The whole is traced to disease of
the ganglion on the posterior (superior) root of the spinal nerve
distributed to the part. This establishes a principle, and in
inscrutable and obstinate, circumscribed skin disease the veterinarian
should see if it coincides with the distribution of one or more sensory
spinal nerves.
_Ulcerations_ are often caused by the lack of protection of a part after
paralysis, thus perforation of the cornea will follow section or disease
of the trigeminus. These may be prevented by carefully covering the
part, and even cured by a fine protective covering like collodion.
=Alteration of the Secretions= often follow on section of the
sympathetic trunks, that of the cervical sympathetic in rabbits causing
excessive congestion of the facial skin, with exudation and scabby
product, also profuse secretion of sweat, tears, and ear cerumen and
dry, scaly skin.
=Polyuria= is determined by section of one point of the medulla behind
the root of the vagus, _mellituria_ by puncture between the vagus and
auditory nerves (the hepatic vaso-motor centre), and _albuminuria_ by a
puncture in front of the latter. Impairment of the hepatic vaso-motor
tracts in the spinal cord, or of the anterior or posterior cervical
sympathetic ganglia, or of the first thoracic ganglion equally
determines nervous mellituria.
=Poisonous milk= produced in hard worked mares, or over-excited dams of
other species, causing dyspepsia, diarrhœa, arthritis or other trouble
in the suckling, must be in part attributed to nervous disorder.
Practically all secretions and nutrition are largely under nervous
control, so that modifications in quantity or quality can often be
attributed to nervous influence.
SENSORY SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS.
Hyperæsthesia, cutaneous, thermic, muscular, visceral. Paræsthesia,
pressure on nerve. Anæsthesia, partial, drug. Analgesia. Hyperalgesia.
These are necessarily much less obvious to the veterinarian than to the
physician of man. Yet in certain cases they may be observed directly,
and in others deduced from dependent symptoms.
=Hyperæsthesia= is a state of exalted excitability of any part of the
sensory nervous apparatus.
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