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
_Pulmonary Symptoms in Strangles._ _Tracheitis_ and _bronchitis_ are
forms of extension of strangles from the upper air passages, and
_pneumonia_ follows of virtual necessity. In many cases these are
primarily dependent on the descent into the lungs of the infecting
discharges, complicated in many cases by the inhalation of food
materials. There are the usual symptoms of broncho-pneumonia
complicating those of strangles and the percussion and auscultation
signs usually imply circumscribed areas of congestion and consolidation
with intervening areas of pervious lung. There may be at such points the
blowing or mucous râles of bronchitis, the sibilant sounds of emphysema,
the crepitation of congestion and the abnormal clearness of sounds
carried from distant organs through the consolidated lung. On percussion
there may be the non-resonance of the consolidated areas, and the excess
of resonance over emphysematous portions or open gas-filled vomicæ. In
these last cases there may be an amphoric sound on auscultation and a
crack-pot sound on percussion. These pulmonary lesions are often fatal,
or the recovery is slow on account of a succession of lobular
congestions and abscesses.
_Abdominal Symptoms in Strangles._ The abdominal lesions in strangles
are usually secondary, the infection reaching the part through the
blood, or by the lymphatics from a castration or other wound, or from
infection by coitus. The phlegmon and abscess may be in the mucosa,
especially in the agminated or solitary glands, in the adjacent lymph
glands at the connection with the mesentery and in those of the
mesentery itself. The animal is dull, listless, with dry, staring coat,
tympany and slight colicy pains after eating, costiveness, retracted,
tender abdomen, insensible loins, and groaning when rising, when walking
down a steep incline, or turning in a very narrow circle. These symptoms
following an apparent or partial recovery from strangles are
significant, and rectal examination may detect a hard, tender mass
connected with the bowel or mesentery.
If rupture takes place into the peritoneum there is general infective
inflammation of that structure with sudden access of fever, marked
prostration and an early death. In more favorable cases its adhesion to
the bowel or to the abdominal wall opens the way for rupture into the
gut or externally and there may be a slow healing of the cavity by
granulation. It may be a month or two before such an abscess opens and
for a length of time thereafter the health is poor, and the animal
lacking in condition and endurance.
When the abscess is formed in the _liver_ there is high fever with
shivering fits, irregularity of the bowels (bound up or loose), dusky or
yellowish hue of the visible mucosæ, anorexia, followed by peritoneal
infection or pyæmia (secondary abscesses).
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