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
As occurring irrespective of plethora or irritants there may be at first
only poor condition and debility with the passage of blood. A pink tinge
may show on the froth in the milk pail, and a red precipitate on its
bottom. If not anæmic at the outset they soon become so, and the pulse
which was at first bounding becomes small and weak, the heart
palpitates, the red mucosæ become pale. The subjects become tucked up,
emaciated, weak, rough coated, the skin adherent to the bones, and the
appetite and rumination impaired or lost. Sometimes colics are present.
In the milder anæmic forms it may continue for months before it causes
death. In such cases it may prove intermittent.
_Morbid Anatomy._ In the hæmaturia of plethora the kidneys are large,
congested and of a dark red, but, preserve their normal consistency and
texture.
In the form associated with ingestion of irritant plants, there is
congestion of the pharynx, stomachs, and intestines with hæmorrhagic
spots, congestion of the liver, violent congestion of the kidneys which
are of a blackish red color, and enlarged to perhaps twice the normal
size, with hæmorrhagic exudations, the convoluted tubes filled with
fibrinous exudate and blood globules, the pelvis red and like the
bladder containing some reddish urine. The vesical mucosa may be black.
In anæmic cases the kidneys are pale, flaccid and colorless, with a
reddish liquid in the pelvis and bladder. The vascular system is
comparatively empty, and the blood, thin, and watery, and often
coagulates loosely or not at all. As noted by Herland globules are
greatly reduced in numbers and size, and often crenated or partially
broken down. Slight serous effusions in the serous membranes are common.
The liver is softened and enlarged, the lacteals have reddish contents,
and the ingesta are dark colored.
_Treatment. Preventive._ Avoid hæmaturia pastures and the fodder grown
on such lands. Drain and cultivate such soils. When animals must feed on
the products of such soils supplement the food by grain, oil cake,
cotton seed meal, etc. Avoid stagnant waters draining from such soils.
_Therapeutic Treatment._ Give oleaginous or saline laxative to clear out
poisons and ferments from the bowels and may add an antiferment (salol,
salicylic acid, carbolic acid, turpentine oil, chlorate of potash,
sulphites or hyposulphites), no matter if diarrhœa is present. Follow
with tonics (copperas, chloride of iron) and stimulant antiseptics (ol.
terebinth, potass. chlorate), and sound food. Flax seed, linseed meal,
farinas. Bitters may be added (gentian, quinine, quassia). As a
calmative, camphor (2 to 4 drs.) 2 or 3 times a day has proved useful.
In case of nephritis treat as for that affection.
Weiner lauds empyreumatic oil and oil of turpentine with camphor.
In chronic cases, nourishing food with change of locality and water are
very important.
A course of iron tonics should wind up the treatment.
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