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
Prevention is the most important consideration and this will include all
that has been stated above with regard to the restriction of the disease
in flocks and herds, the drainage and improvement of anthrax lands, the
seclusion, destruction, deep burial or cremation of carcasses without
autopsy or incision, the disinfection of stalls, secretions and all
contaminated products, and the suppression of all traffic in anthrax
products—meat, milk, blood, guts, bones, horns, hoofs, hair, wool,
bristles, etc., or the thorough disinfection of the same. Above all, is
the adoption of personal precautions. No one should handle anthrax
animals, nor suspected products who has any sore or abrasion on hands or
face, or such sore may be temporarily covered with a film of albuminate
of silver, or the hands may be washed with a solution of mercuric
chloride (1:500), or chloride of lime (1:200). If persons must work in
wool or textile products which are open to suspicion a respirator is an
obvious precaution, and this may be disinfected by live steam at
intervals.
_Treatment of malignant pustule_ is mainly surgical. At the outset the
thorough destruction of the dark central point or nodule with a red hot
needle or powerful caustic will be sufficient. Even when the pustule is
fully formed, its free excision with as much of the surrounding
infiltrated tissue as can be safely accomplished and the free
application of caustics will usually succeed. Potassa fusa, or zinc
chloride (1:3), or mercuric chloride or iodide in powder with or without
calomel, or pyoktanin, or formaline, or iodized phenol may be named as
especially applicable. Injections of carbolic acid (5 or 10:100) into
the indurated centre and infiltrated periphery have proved very
successful. In the case of Kaloff, when the excision of the nodule
followed by the local use of carbolic acid solution, failed to prevent
implication of the inguinal and pectoral glands, violent fever,
prostration, and diarrhœa; the excision of the affected glands and the
free use of phenic acid solution (5:100) in the adjacent tissues led to
speedy improvement. Some surgeons make a crucial incision of the pustule
and apply caustics freely. Muskett has been successful in excising the
nodule, filling the wound with ipecacuan powder and giving the same
agent internally. Many mild cases, or those that occur in refractory
systems will however recover spontaneously or under a less drastic
treatment. In the anthrax districts of Russia mercurial ointment is
rubbed on the sore, and the application of tincture of iodine or iodized
phenol to the raw sore or incised nodule and surrounding infiltration is
often successful.
Camescasse has claimed great success by incising the swelling, applying
tincture of iodine freely, and then wrapping in cloths kept wet with a
solution of 5 drachms of bicarbonate of soda in a quart of tepid water.
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