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
_Nervous symptoms._ These are shown more or less from the beginning. The
great dulness, depression, apathy and weakness, which usually usher in
the disease, are indications of this. Drowsiness may be early shown.
Even the early nausea and vomiting may be largely central in its origin.
In some cases, however, the brain symptoms are more active and violent.
The dog is restless and irritable, getting up and moving from place to
place, starting from sleep, yelping, snapping, with twitching of the
muscles of the face or limbs, rolling of the eyes, and excessive heat of
the head. Krajewski even describes rabiform paroxysms, depraved
appetite, spasms, furious delirium, fawning, or threatening, and finally
paraplegia and maxillary paralysis Occurring in a country where rabies
is familiar it would have been more satisfactory if inoculations had
been made from such cases with results negativing rabies. Epileptic
attacks may appear at any stage of the disease. Chorea, tonic spasms,
paresis and paralysis are on the contrary habitually late manifestations
and often seem to be sequelæ determined by toxin poisoning of the nerve
centers, or degenerations of their structure. Choreic movements may be
confined to the head, or a limb, or they may affect the whole body.
Tonic spasms often affect the neck, turning the head rigidly to one
side. Among other nervous disorders may be named, amaurosis with dilated
pupil and atrophy of the optic nerve, deafness, anosmia, and dementia.
_Lesions._ These vary as do the symptoms. The nasal pharyngeal, and
laryngeal mucosæ show congestion, swelling, infiltration, ecchymosis
with vesicles, pustules and ulcerations. They are covered by a foul
muco-purulent exudate. The same condition may often be traced to the
final ramifications of the bronchial system. In pulmonary cases, the
lungs show inflammation, inflammatory exudation and consolidation,
collapse, splenization, œdema, and even suppuration in points or large
areas. The bronchial lymph glands and often the pharyngeal are enlarged,
congested and may be suppurating. The pleura over the congested lung may
be the seat of exudation and false membrane, and a bloody serum may
occupy the pleural cavity. The heart may show parenchymatous
degeneration.
In the digestive organs there may be buccal congestion, with
degeneration and the desquamation of the epithelium and formation of
more or less extended ulceration. The stomach shows similar congestions
and degenerations, the ulcer appearing particularly on the summit of the
folds. Together with the intestines this often presents numerous
petechiæ and ulcerations, and is covered by a foul but often tenacious
mucus. The agminated and solitary glands are usually swollen and
infiltrated, and the mesenteric glands are swollen, congested and
infiltrated.
The kidneys are often congested, and show points of blood extravasation
and tissue degeneration.
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