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
All carnivora are liable to contract glanders by eating the flesh of
glandered horses, asses and mules, and this has been noted especially in
menageries. _Lions_, _tigers_, _bears_ and _wolves_, have shown the
ulcerous lesions in the nose, and the nodules in the lungs, spleen,
liver, kidneys and elsewhere. The carcass of the diseased horse is,
however, often devoured without evil result, and even when the carnivora
become affected the disease is not always fatal.
In the _dog_, experimental glanders has been closely studied by many
observers. Casual glanders has been contracted by living with the
glandered horse; by licking his nasal or other discharges, and by eating
his flesh. The disease has also been conveyed from dog to dog by licking
each other. In many cases even inoculated glanders produces only a local
ulcerous inflammatory lesion with or without hard swelling of the
adjacent lymphatics, and engorgement of the lymph glands. After a rather
tardy granulation and cicatrisation, the symptoms subside and the animal
is restored to health. Yet such benignity does not depend on any
lessened virulence of the bacillus, for an inoculation of the discharges
on the ass produces acute and fatal glanders.
GLANDERS IN MAN.
Recognized by Lorin 1812. Causes: infection from soliped, man less
susceptible; infection from man, clothing, stable bucket, inhalation,
etc.; industrial disease; native immunity. _Symptoms_: incubation;
mistaken for carbuncle, small pox, measles, erysipelas, anthrax;
anamnesis; anthrax focus has darker center, no caseation, no corded
lymphatics; nodules and ulcers in nose, swollen submaxillary glands
and lymph vessels, general illness, diarrhœa, vomiting, dyspnœa,
mental derangement, stupor, coma, internal deposits, bloody sputa,
fœtid breath, hepatic pain, icterus, muscles, bones, bowels, typhoid,
pyæmic, osteo-myelitic, or acute tuberculous symptoms. Death in 3 days
to 4 weeks. Chronic cases, cutaneous, muscular, osseous, skin nodules
in group or chain, glandular swellings. Diagnosis from pyæmia by lack
of chills, and the sanious pus; from syphilis by futility of potassium
iodide, and history; inoculate ox or white mouse; find bacillus.
Lesions: as in horse, more early coagulation necrosis, ulceration,
abscess; pus more viscid than in pyæmia, walls of abscess more
irregular, lymphoid cell proliferation more abundant and extended
(glands, spleen, liver, lung, nose, etc.), history; distinguished from
variola, rötheln, and erysipelas by the many miliary or pea-like
neoplasms with cellular caseating centres; lymphoid deposits in bone
marrow, with friability.
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