Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5) — John Shaqi
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
The lack of the extreme hyperæsthesia and excitability of rabies, and
usually of the mischievous disposition to bite, the presence of foreign
bodies in the mouth or gullet, and the evidence of disorder of
digestion, with costiveness, tympany, and tenderness, and the history of
the case may serve to differentiate. In cases of doubt the inoculation
of a rabbit on the brain should demonstrate the absence of rabies by the
absence of the characteristic symptoms after sixteen days.
_Treatment._ As delirium in animals is a deranged innervation from
congestion, narcotic drugs, ptomaines, etc., it must be looked on as in
most cases a mere phenomenon, pointing to a definite disease, or to a
particular intoxication, and treatment must be directed toward the
removal of the primary cause. Thus the remedial measures must be
directed in the different cases to the encephalitis, meningitis,
digestive disorders, contagious disease, or drug to which the affection
may be traced. The patient must be put in a strong enclosure or securely
tied so that he can do no harm: it will often be desirable to secure
shade or cool air, or to apply cold water or ice to the head, and to
quiet the nervous excitement by inhalations of chloroform, or ether,
rectal injections of chloral, or bromides, or full doses of hyoscine,
sulphonal, trional or tetronal. These may be pushed to the extent of
inducing anæsthesia, sleep or quiet, as the case may be, and meanwhile
other measures should be taken to eliminate the poisons, correct the
congestion, or remove the source of irritation. Anæmic cases may demand
iron and bitters, with an aliment rich and easily assimilated, while
plethoric cases may require purgation, diuresis or even bloodletting.
All noise and any cause of excitement must be carefully guarded against.
VICIOUSNESS. AGGRESSIVE VICE.
Subject maliciously using its natural weapons. Horse kicks, bites,
crowds against wall, rears, bucks, plunges, treads upon. Cattle use
horns or forehead, or kick. Dog bites. Cats scratch and bite.
Ticklishness different. Developed or inherited. Revenge. Desperation
in pain. Sexual. A psychosis. Responsibility of owner, in selling,
toward employe, in exposing in a public place. Treatment: remove
source of suffering, treat kindly, secure confidence, castrate, place
under absolute constraint, throw _a la Rarey_, Comanche bridle, tie
head to tail and circle, etc.
This word is employed to cover only those forms of vice in which the
animal shows a malignant disposition to attack or injure man or beast.
Each animal uses its natural weapons according to the occasion.
The =horse= strikes with his fore feet, kicks with his hind, bites,
crowds his rider’s leg against a wall, or his attendant’s body against
the side of the stall, rears, bucks, plunges, or treads his victim under
his feet.
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