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
_Symptoms in Sheep._ The sheep is often drowsy, dull and stupid, lying
by itself with head low or laid backward. During the periods of
excitement it works the jaws, froths at the mouth, carries the head
turned in one direction, upward or lateral, bleats piteously, pushes
against the wall, has uncertain, stiff or staggering gait, or
convulsions, and finally paralysis. The head is hot, and the eye fixed,
congested or sometimes rolled upward or squinted. Symptoms in the goat
are nearly the same. The cœnurus disease is more gradual in its onset,
and produces periodic paroxysms corresponding to the activity of the
heads of the parasite when protruded into the brain substance. It is
mainly confined to sheep of one year and under and that are kept where
dogs have access.
_Symptoms in Swine._ Pigs may at first have a period of dullness or
restlessness, the latter merging into active delirium. The patient
champs his jaws, froths at the mouth and nose, sometimes vomits,
squeals, raises himself with fore feet on the wall, walks round and
round, or falls and rolls over, has tremors or convulsions.
_Symptoms in the Dog._ There may be preliminary indications of illness,
anxiety, restlessness, irritability and a desire for seclusion. Vomiting
may occur. This is liable to merge into prostration, a dullness of the
special senses, utter inattention to calls, yet a disposition to resent
any interference, a readiness to bite, at least to howl, when handled.
Some will constantly howl or moan. The eye is fixed, the pupils dilated,
the conjunctiva deep red, the head and roots of the ear are hot. The
expression of the face is pinched and drawn, the muscles may twitch, the
eyes roll, twitching of the neck or limbs may appear, and even
epileptiform attacks. In exceptional cases the symptoms approximate to
those of rabies, in the tendency to seek seclusion, to wander off, to
bite on any interference, and even to gnaw the bars of the cage or any
object within reach. After more or less of such excitement, the period
of stupor, coma, paresis, or paralysis comes on, and the animal dies in
a state of complete nervous prostration. In cases associated with the
linguatula tænioides the sneezing, nasal discharge and nasal congestion,
even in the early stages, betray the true character of the disorder.
The rabiform cases usually lack the intense heat of the head, the deep
conjunctival congestion, the depraved appetite, the alteration of the
voice, and the mischievous desire to attack without reason which
characterize rabies.
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