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
3d. Intravenous injection of a small quantity of virus, containing but a
few bacilli produces no local swelling, but only a slight temporary
hyperthermia and permanent immunity. The greatest care is necessary in
the manipulation, to prevent any contact of the bacillus with the
subcutaneous tissues or the walls of the vein. The virulent exudate
swarming with bacilli is taken and a drop or two added to a normal salt
solution, which is diluted and shaken in a stoppered bottle, until each
drop contains but one, or at most two bacilli. Then the hands having
been thoroughly washed with soap and warm water and rinsed in a 5 per
cent. solution of carbolic acid, and the instruments having been boiled,
the vein is raised as for bleeding, and penetrated by a short cannula
and trochar, which after boiling has been dipped in the carbolic acid
solution, the trochar is withdrawn, and the nozzle of the syringe
containing the virulent solution is inserted through the cannula, so
that its point is free in the centre of the blood stream, into which a
few drops of the virulent solution are discharged. The nozzle is left in
place for a few seconds to ensure the washing of any infecting matter
from its point, when it is withdrawn, followed immediately after by the
cannula. Great care should be taken to avoid any scratching of the inner
coat of the vein with the cannula, trochar or nozzle.
4th. Another method of immunizing is by the injection of the virulent
liquid into the trachea and bronchia. This appears to bring it so
directly in contact with the blood, that the microbes are destroyed as
rapidly as if it were introduced into the blood stream direct. The
injection is made between two tracheal rings, the manipulation being
essentially the same as in the cases of the vein, the tissues being
first perforated by a sterilized cannula and trochar, and the sterilized
nozzle subsequently inserted through the cannula.
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