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 microbes are especially found in the visible lesions of glanders, in
the mucous, cutaneous and subcutaneous swellings and abscesses, in the
swollen lymph glands, in the nodules and ulcers of the mucous membranes
and skin, in the morbid discharges, from the nose, eyes, pharynx,
guttural pouches, larynx, trachea and bronchia, and in the discharge of
farcy buds and abscesses. They are not necessarily distributed through
all the tissues, and in chronic cases, with strictly local lesions, the
infection appears to be often confined to these or nearly so, and the
contamination of other animals is slow and uncertain. When, however, the
disease is acute and advanced, or generalized, every part must be looked
upon as probably infecting. Thus virulence has been shown in the blood,
the exhalations of the serous membranes, saliva, the aqueous humor
(Cadeac and Malet), the tears, (Viborg), the muscles, and the bones.
Galtier says the milk, sperm, bile and intestinal mucous are
non-virulent, also the vaccine lymph raised on glandered animals, but
much must depend on the grade and stage of the disease and no one would
care to run unnecessary risks with these liquids.
_Infection Atria._ Inoculation on a skin wound or abrasion, is a most
effective mode of transmission, but the virus undoubtedly enters in
certain cases with the air, food or water, or by accidental lodgment of
a speck of the virus on the mucosa of the nose or eye or other natural
opening. Through the healthy mucosa the bacillus may enter by
penetrating the soft epithelium, or entering the mucous follicles, but
it will find the way smoothed for it, if there has been friction,
abrasion, desquamation or congestion. The skin in its healthy state is
usually resistant, but Babes has conveyed infection by rubbing on the
virus mixed with vaseline, and without displacing the epithelium. The
channel of entrance was the hair follicles. Injected into the blood,
intravenously, or into a serous cavity, the bacillus infects with great
certainty and promptitude.
There is ample evidence that primary lesions appear not only in the skin
and nasal mucosa, but also in the bronchia, intestines, and other parts.
Much time and ink have been wasted in attempts to prove that pulmonary
lesions are always secondary, and doubtless many are so, but the cases
in which the lesions are confined to the bronchia or parenchyma, and the
many parallel cases of direct infection of the lungs by other diseases
(tuberculosis, lung plague, contagious pneumonia, influenza, etc.,)
furnish conclusive enough evidence that the germ may be inhaled and
colonize this part first. Cases of inhalation bronchitis, are equally
corroborative, and not only may the grosser solids be aspired, but
infection droplets can easily gravitate down when from congestion or
inflammation the action of the tracheal and bronchial cilia, is
suspended.
FORMS AND LESIONS OF GLANDERS IN SOLIPEDS.
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