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
_Gloss-anthrax_ implicates the whole, or it may be the roots only, of
the tongue and the fauces. There is profuse salivation, perhaps bloody,
intermaxillary and pharyngeal swelling, anorexia, and the tongue is
found protruding, swollen, violaceous, vesiculated or with rounded
nodules, or sloughs and ulcers, with lardaceous or blood stained
bottoms. Hyperthermia and constitutional symptoms are present.
_Pharyngeal anthrax_ is manifested by swelling of the throat, profuse
salivation more or less marked with blood, complete dysphagia, attending
on the marked febrile and constitutional symptoms already described.
_Hæmorrhoidal anthrax_, a common complication of the constitutional
disease, is manifested by infiltration, blood extravasation, violet
discoloration and often enormous swelling of the rectal mucosa, seen
mainly during straining, but sometimes also as a constant protrusion.
=Local Anthrax in Sheep and Goats.= External anthrax swellings may form
on the face, throat or udder with the general characters of those of the
ox, but this form is much more rare than in cattle and horses. The usual
form is the internal one, with engorgement of spleen, liver, and perhaps
some other internal organ, and it is relatively very fatal.
=Local Anthrax in the Horse.= _Symptoms._ In anthrax districts, tumors
form in the seats of inoculations on sores, insect bites, or sometimes
without apparent local cause, as a result perhaps of a general
infection. The infiltration takes place suddenly into or beneath the
cutis, mostly on the head, tongue, throat, neck, breast, shoulder,
inguinal region, mammæ, croup, or thigh, encreases rapidly, but without
crepitation, or suppuration, the incision showing the general characters
described in the ox, and early attended by the constitutional disorder.
The general fever is often later in developing, less intense, and, on
the whole, less fatal than the purely internal forms.
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