Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 4 (of 5)Law, James
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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 4 (of 5)
Law, James
Veterinary medicine
Meanwhile the individual owner can do something to secure a partial
protection. On farms and in barracks the animals may be secluded from
all other equine animals during the local prevalence of the disease.
Men, dogs, and wild animals can be similarly excluded. Litter, fodder,
bags, clothing, manure, vehicles, etc., from infected stables and places
must be carefully guarded against. Newly purchased animals, carried in
any public conveyance, or kept or fed in any public yard or stable must
be quarantined at a considerable distance from others, and treated by
disinfectant sponging and fumigation before they are allowed to mingle
with other equine animals. Stables where the disease has occurred must
be thoroughly disinfected, together with all manure made during the
epizoötic and for some time thereafter.
EPIZOOTIC CELLULITIS: PINK EYE.
Williams follows a popular fashion in describing under the above names
an affection which may be only a form of equine influenza, but which may
be named by itself until its true place can be defined by proof of its
actual pathogenic microörganism.
Beside the general constitutional disturbance, this condition is
distinguished by marked hyperthermia (103° to 104°), swollen, congested,
watering eyelids, cough, strong pulse becoming gradually feeble, firmly
coagulating blood, irritable bowels, painful passage of fæces, and,
above all, a frequent movement of the feet indicative of discomfort and
followed by swelling, often excessive, of the limb or limbs, by a
cutaneous and subcutaneous exudate. These various phenomena may all be
but manifestations of the rather protean disease, equine influenza, and
the cellulitis but variations of the rheumatoid and arthritic forms
which are so common in the regular type of that disease in cold or wet
climates, or seasons. Williams claims that a prominent danger is the
formation of clots in the heart and large vessels and advocates the free
use of the salts of ammonia and potash with stimulants. The treatment
does not essentially differ from that of equine influenza except in the
call for special applications to the inflamed eyes and infiltrated
limbs.
PETECHIAL FEVER. ACUTE HÆMORRHAGIC—ANASARCOUS—TOXÆMIA.
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