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
Abscess of the _pancreas_ or _spleen_ is even less definite in symptoms.
These may terminate in rupture and peritonitis, or the splenic abscess
may become chronic and indolent and in a measure harmless.
_Perirenal Abscess_ is betrayed by specially sensitive loins, stiffness
and groaning in rising or in turning sharply on himself, drooping of the
back under a load, and by albuminous urine. In a small animal the part
may be reached and the tenderness ellicited by handling.
_Cutaneous Symptoms in Strangles._ Though by no means a common form,
strangles sometimes attacks the skin, more particularly that of the
face, head and neck, appearing in the form of pustules or small
abscesses, or it may be of a rounded nodular elevation, which may
disappear without forming either vesicle or pustule. The points of
election are around the lips, nose and eyes, upon the mucosa inside the
lips, along the line of the facial lymphatics running toward the
submaxillary gland, and at points where there is special friction, as
under the halter, collar, saddle, crupper, in the hollow of the heel,
under the tail, on the perineum, in the groin and axilla. They may
extend more or less up the limbs, or around the point of primary attack
attended by more or less engorgement. When this engorgement has reached
extensive dimensions and is mixed with sanguineous extravasation it is
considered as having merged into petechial fever.
_Symptoms of Coital Infection._ From four to seven days after copulation
there appear fever, dullness, stiffness, anorexia, swelling and heat of
the lips of the vulva, a yellowish opaque discharge from its lower
commissure, a deep dark red blush of the mucosa, with points of distinct
infiltration and thickening, developing into vesicles and pustules. The
perineum, the groin and mammæ often show an extension of the congestion
and eruption. In exceptional cases deep abscesses form and Letard
records a fatal case with extensive suppuration among the muscles of the
hind limbs and the haunch, inside the pelvis and along the line of the
aorta.
_Symptoms of Nervous Lesions._ The lesions of the brain and spinal cord
are usually secondary and often appear when the less dangerous
superficial manifestations, are tardy and indolent, when the exudates
are indurated and indisposed to soften. There may be violent delirium,
pushing of the head against the wall, movements of the limbs as if
walking or trotting, roaring, plunging, striking with fore or hind feet,
trismus or other muscular spasms. More frequently there is great
dulness, prostration, debility, vertigo, drowsiness, amaurosis,
paraplegia, general paralysis, coma. If the lesion is in the spinal cord
the spastic or paralytic symptoms are likely to be confined to the hind
parts.
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