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
blow in silence, eyes red, fixed, pupils dilated, squinting, lonely
wandering, biting, swimming rivers; restless excitement alternates
with torpor and seclusion, slouching gait when worn out; in _paralytic
form_; weakness, paresis, palsy of lower jaw, hind limbs, body, dull,
prostrate, apathetic; in lethargic form; no fury nor paralysis, but
profound prostration and apathy, no coaxing, threat, punishment not
even another dog will rouse. Paralytic and apathetic forms wind up the
furious; cases with intermittent attacks. Diagnosis: by marked change
of disposition or habit, voice, appetite, any hypersæthesia,
strabismus, watching or snapping at unreal objects, taciturnity, fury
in presence of other dog or stranger, snapping, biting without giving
voice, fury when threatened with stick, open mouth without disposition
to paw it, lack of muscular coördination, paresis, paralysis.
Distinction from lactation anæmia, bone in palate or throat,
dislocation of maxilla, stomato-pharyngitis, cutaneous hypersæthesia,
pharyngeal anthrax, epilepsy, pentastoma, cysticercus, filaria
immitis, nematodes, and tæniæ, auricular acariasis. Symptoms in
_cats_: changed voice, depraved appetite, hiding, restlessness,
irritability, bites, scratches, man or dog. Symptoms in solipeds:
trembling, hyperæsthesia, easily startled, ears and eyes alert,
dilated flashing pupils, roused by dog or stranger, attacks with teeth
and heels, mischievous, pawing, kicking, rolling, rising, straining to
urinate or defecate, neighing, sniffling, snorting, everting upper
lip, grinding teeth, biting, stiffness or impaired control of limbs,
generative excitement, spasms, paralysis, hyperthermia, perspiration.
Symptoms in cattle: irritability, restlessness, alert head, ears,
eyes, squinting, dilated pupils, loud bellowing, lashing tail, or
docility, yet pursues a dog, using horns, heels, (exceptionally
teeth), stamps, paws, has genital excitement, anorexia, spasms,
weakness, paraplegia. Symptoms in sheep and goat: hyperæsthesia,
irritability, genital excitement, fury in presence of dog, stamps,
butts, paws, snorts, bleats, grinds teeth, becomes paretic, and
paraplegic. Symptoms in camels and deer: camels show furious and
paralytic forms, biting and snorting; deer have hyperæsthesia merging
into paralysis. Symptoms in swine: extreme irritability, restlessness,
start at slightest cause or none, tremors, squealing, jerking,
grinding teeth, clenching jaws, bite especially a dog, or not,
weakness, lethargy, paralysis. Symptoms in rabbits and Guinea pigs;
may be furious, more often paralytic. Symptoms in birds: restlessness,
ruffling of feathers, pecking or striking man or dog, or at phantom,
palsy. Symptoms in wild carnivora: lose fear of man, approach and
attack him, are furious and later paralytic. Skunks bite slyly.
Symptoms in man: irritable cicatrix, anxiety, sighing, tremor,
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