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
_Symptoms in Sheep and Goat._ In these there is the same regular
succession of symptoms through intense hyperæsthesia and excitability,
fury and genital excitement to the terminal paralysis, or the palsy may
set in early without premonitory violence. Among the marked features
have been noticed, a change of expression, the pupils dilate, eyes
flash, they lick or mount their fellows, they lick or rub the bitten
part, snort, stamp or scrape with the fore feet, setting themselves in
the attitude of attack, they may butt other sheep, fowls, and other
animals, above all dogs, or they may deliver the attack in the air only,
at some phantom enemy. They may bleat hoarsely or brokenly, grind the
teeth, or work the jaws with the formation of froth about the lips.
Galtier says they may even attempt to bite. Sooner or later weakness of
the limbs, muscular incoördination, swaying and staggering bespeak
enervation, the sheep lies constantly, and if raised stands with
unsteady semi-flexed limbs, has trembling or convulsions and dies
paralytic in from two to five days. Death has been delayed till the
twelfth day (goat) or thirteenth (sheep). In some cases paralysis has
been present from the start, the subject lying prostrate from the first.
_Rabies in the Camel and Deer._ In Algiers camels are often times bitten
by rabid dogs and contract the disease showing both furious and
paralytic symptoms. They are especially dangerous because of their
propensity to bite, and to scatter the virulent product by sneezing.
In England rabies has prevailed extensively in parks of deer, which shut
inside high walls have been bitten remorselessly by rabid dogs that had
gained admittance. The symptoms of hyperæsthesia and paralysis followed
the same general course as in other animals.
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