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
_Immunization_ of buffalo and sheep has been secured by making cultures
of the microbe in free air at 86° to 90° F. and inoculating the animals
with the weakened virus, on three successive occasions with intervals of
several days. It induces a transient fever, with no serious phenomena
(Oreste and Armanni). A second available method is to pass the virus
through the system of the pigeon and inoculate with the pigeon’s blood,
on three successive occasions, the animals to be protected. It is
manifestly impossible to put such immunizing methods in force on wild
deer, and for these probably the best course is to drive them from the
infected range, to an uninfected one, having retained them for a few
days interval in a confined area, to allow of any already infected
animals developing the disease. A similar avoidance of waters running
from the infected tract is imperative.
_Treatment_, has been unsuccessful. Friedberger failed with hypodermic
injection of carbolic acid, and internal administration of salicylic
acid. Gal gave subcutem 5 per cent. solution of creolin, and doses of 1½
oz. of the same agent by the mouth. Five buffaloes out of seventeen
recovered. Friedberger suggests deep incisions of the swellings so as to
admit the air, and treatment of the wounds with strong antiseptics.
SEPTICÆMIA HÆMORRHAGICA OF THE SHEEP: LOMBRIZ.
Synonyms. Definition. Geographical distribution, Argentina, France,
etc. Causes: bacillus; intravenously, etc., youth, verminous
affections, low condition. Bacteriology: ovoid bacillus with polar
stain, bleached by Gram’s solution, ærobic, nonmotile. Symptoms:
Chronic form in summer, diarrhœa, arched back, stiffness, emaciation,
flattened wool, segregation, impaired or depraved appetite, shedding
wool, anæmic skin, dependent dropsies, sunken eyes, weak small pulse,
temperature variable—elevated, nasal and buccal discharge, weakness,
paresis, dulness, torpor, lung symptoms, arthritis. Diagnosis: from
distomatosis and strongylosis. Acute form with high fever,
constitutional disorder, colics, diarrhœa, death in 24 to 36 hours,
subacute form. Lesions: black blood, congestions, and general
petechiæ. Lungs, liver, kidneys and spleen, congested, swollen.
Subacute cases have lighter blood, and lesions. Chronic cases anæmic,
blood diffluent, lymph glands enlarged, congested; connective tissues
and serous cavities dropsical, gastric, intestinal and hepatic worms,
spleen shrunken. Mortality: great in acute, less in chronic.
Prevention: segregation, exclusion of all sheep from unknown or
suspected flocks, antiseptic dip and quarantine for new purchases,
expose a few as a test; cleanliness, disinfectants, avoid watershed
from infected lands, wide range, outdoor life, generous diet, remove
weak, emaciated, anæmic. Immunization. Treatment.
_Synonyms._ Pasteurellosis Ovina. Infectious Pneumo-Enteritis.
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