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
The control of home markets, stockyards, and abattoirs is no less
important. Fortunately the disease is shortlived and deadly, and is much
more easily discovered and arrested than in the case of plagues with
prolonged incubation and frequently occult form (glanders,
tuberculosis). An inspection of the various markets, and the detention
of herds that have shown anthrax infection would do much to limit
extension. This would entail the disinfection of the infected places,
cars, boats, harness, clothing, and other things, and of the skins of
the healthy animals of the infected herd.
_The Therapeutic Treatment_ of anthrax in animals must in the main
follow in the same lines given below for the human being; locally,
antiseptics (mercuric chloride or iodide, Luzol’s solution, hydrochloric
acid, phenic acid, iodized phenol, creoline, cresyl, oil of turpentine,
formalin, salicylic acid, scarification, excision of the primary sore or
swelling with antisepsis, antiseptic injections into the swelling.)
Internally, there have been employed, dilute phenic acid, creolin,
terebene, calomel, quinine, hydrochloric acid, bichromate of potash,
tincture of iron chloride, etc. (see below).
ANTHRAX IN MAN.
Causes: infection from animals and their products, from soil, by
flies, by dust. An industrial disease, of workers among animals and
animal products. Wounds as infection atria, ingestion anthrax,
inhalation. Lesions: malignant vesicle, anthrax œdema, intestinal
anthrax: pulmonary anthrax. Symptoms: malignant vesicle, œdematous
anthrax, intestinal, pulmonary. Prevention. Treatment: caustics:
antiseptics, excision of nodule and subsidiary glands, mercurial
ointment, iodine, sodium bicarbonate. For intestinal anthrax: emetic,
oleaginous purgatives, potassium iodide, sodium salicylate, iron
muriate, heart stimulants. For pulmonary anthrax: inhale chlorine,
iodine, bromine, phenic acid, eucalyptol, oil of cinnamon, sterilized
cultures of prodigiosus, pneumococcus of Friedländer, bacillus
pyocyaneus, staphylococcus aureus, or streptococcus: blood serum of
immune animals: blood serum (sterilized) of anthrax cattle.
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