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
Lesions: blood fluid or clot diffluent. Fauces, pharynx and larynx
congested, exceptionally ulcerated. In dog, mouth cyanotic, with
tenacious mucus, sublingual petechiæ and erosions, stomach contains
many foreign bodies, but no food, small intestines and cæcum empty,
and like stomach congested: petechiæ on skin and elsewhere, cutaneous
and cardiac veins gorged, hyperæmic liver, kidneys and bladder: brain
congested, capillaries dilated or blocked, hæmorrhagic, leucocytic
collections in lymph spaces, nerve cells swell up with hyaline bodies
near nuclei, and neuroglia has hyperplasia, especially near the
respiratory centre. Congestion of nerves. Leucocytosis. Therapeutic
treatment: Orrotherapy: of little avail. Nerve sedatives; darkness,
quiet, nutritive enemata, chloroform, chloral, etc. Prevention:
eradicate the virus; muzzle all dogs absolutely, under heavy penalty,
for one year; Gower’s view; examples of muzzling; collar with name and
owner, shoot all unmuzzled dogs, cage for 6 months bitten dogs and
cats, also all imported dogs, shut up in cage for 10 days all dogs
that have bitten; treatment of bites, tourniquet, cup, suck through
tube, wring wound, cauterize—hot skewer, cautery, mineral solid
caustic, mineral acids on pledget or through a tube; Pasteur method:
emulsion of spinal cord (of rabid rabbit) after aseptic æration in
vitro for 3 to 14 days, injected in graduated doses for 21 days, table
of doses, table of mortality; Orrotherapy: by blood serum of immune
animal: advantages, disadvantages—technique: Use of sterilized brain
matter from rabid animal: experiments; protection by snake venom.
_Pathological Anatomy._ The blood is fluid or the clot diffluent.
Congestion of the fauces, pharynx and larynx is patent during life but
may have disappeared after death. Yet I have seen extensive ulceration
of the vocal cords in a rabid cow. The congestion may extend to the
trachea bronchia and lungs. In _dogs_ the buccal mucosa is often
cyanotic, covered with a thick mucus, and may present sublingual
ecchymoses and erosions, and wounds of various kinds made by objects
bitten or swallowed. The stomach in the same animal is usually almost
pathognomonic, being filled with foreign bodies of all kinds—straw, hay,
hair, wood, coal, pebbles, pieces of metal, cord, leather, cloth, earth,
sand, etc.—the result of the depraved appetite. There is an absence of
normal food principles in stomach and small intestines and the cæcum and
colon are usually empty. The gastric mucosa is congested, and may be
wounded and its contents mixed with blood. Such a condition of the
stomach in a dog, that has been bitten, and which after a customary
incubation period has shown symptoms like those of rabies, is virtually
diagnostic.
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