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
Internally, antiseptics such as sulphocarbolates and tincture of muriate
of iron, iodides, and carbolic acid have been largely employed. Whitla
recommends 5 grains of quinia in 15 grains of tincture of muriate of
iron every four hours. Tonics (arsenate of strychnia), and stimulants,
ammoniacal or alcoholic, may be called for. Special symptoms such as
pain, rigors, nausea, vomiting, diarrhœa and profuse perspirations must
be met by suitable remedies. Finally blood serum from healthy cattle or
from immunized animals may be employed subcutem. Pure air and
nourishing, easily digestible food are very essential. Every effort
should be made to check the disease at its outset, as generalized acute
glanders is speedily fatal, and recoveries in chronic cases usually
leave a broken down constitution.
LYMPHANGITIS SACCHAROMYCOTICA (FARCINOIDES: EPIZOÖTICA:ULCEROSA.) FARCY
IN CATTLE.
Geographical distribution and nature: Japan, Northern Europe, France,
Guadaloupe; caseating nodules in skin, subcutem, in mucosæ and
internal organs. In _horse_ skin nodules, and glandular abscesses,
with thick ovoid refrangent bacterium; saccharomyces (Hitt); swellings
first local, then multiple, and general, extending along lymph vessels
to glands (Hitt); along air-passages to lungs, from prepuce or scrotum
to peritoneum (Hitt), or from conjunctiva to other parts in the orbit
(Caparini and Ferner). In _cattle_, multiple, subcutaneous,
nodules—hazlenut to walnut, isolated, hard, painless. Suppurate
slowly. Same saccharomyces (Tokishige, Nocard). May invade lungs with
fatal result in a year. Mallein test gives no reaction. Treatment:
actively antiseptic; open, curette, pack with antiseptic gauze,
sublimate bandages; internally, tonics, antiseptics.
Horses and cattle in certain countries (Japan, Sweden, Finland, France,
Guadaloupe) are subject to a chronic lymphangitis resembling cutaneous
glanders, but associated with the development of bacilli or fungi in the
nodular, caseating swellings in the skin, subcutem, in mucosæ and in
internal organs.
Nocard describes the affection in the horse as characterized by skin
nodules (buttons, boils), which burst and discharge a thick, grumous, or
thin, oily, yellowish or bloody pus. The surrounding lymph plexus swells
up into corded lines, with at intervals nodules or abscesses. The
infection extends to and implicates the lymph glands and general pyemia
may follow. The thick ovoid refrangent, pathogenic, bacterium stains in
Gram’s solution.
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