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
_Measures for Sanitary Police._ Make it _compulsory to report_, under
penalty for failure, all cases of strangles, or of horses with nasal
discharge, or submaxillary swelling. Forbid removal from the stable, or
secluded enclosure, of all horses, etc., suffering in this way or which
have been pronounced by the official veterinarian to have strangles.
Provide for _exclusion of all other solipeds_ from such _stables_, or
from _contact_ or _dangerous proximity_ to animals held in them, also
from _infected yards, parks, cars, boats, etc. Close public drinking
troughs_ during an epizoötic; let each owner use his own bucket.
Circumstances may demand closure of public feeding stables as well.
_Forbid_, under penalty, _sale_, _exposure_ or _movement_ on any _public
highway_ or _unfenced place_ of any infected (diseased or exposed)
soliped. Enjoin _certificate of sanitary conditions of stable and stud_
with each animal sold. _Close dealers’ stables_, or forbid any sale from
them until all infection has ceased and the buildings have been
thoroughly disinfected. Compel thorough _disinfection of stables, yards,
cars, boats and other public conveyances_ that may be open to reasonable
suspicion of infection.
_Immunization._ An attack renders the subject immune, but this may be
early overcome by marked change of location, and exposure to a virus of
greater intensity or modified quality. Besides the crude and reckless
Russian method already referred to, direct inoculation of the virulent
products has been often resorted to from the time of Gohier onward, in
the different countries of Europe. By selecting the matter from the
abscesses or nasal discharge of a mild epizoötic, and preserving the
inoculated subjects in clean, dry, pure aired stables, on nourishing
diet, and under the best conditions of hygiene, a fair measure of
immunity was conferred with absolutely no loss. The same as after casual
cases, second attacks will sometimes be shown, but even in severe
outbreaks, of a less violent type. The pus from the abscess, or the
preceding exudate in the swelling may be simply rubbed on the nasal
mucosa, or injected subcutem in another part of the body. In many cases
there follows merely a local cellulitis, while in others the general
infection leads to the nasal discharge, with or without the submaxillary
abscess.
This method is open to the individual owner where no concerted effort is
made to _stamp out_ the infection. When, however, police measures for
suppression are in force, it must be strictly prohibited, or adopted
only under official control, and with absolute seclusion and thorough
disinfection.
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