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
_Incubation_ appears to be longer than in equine influenza, varying in
different cases from 3 to 10 days.
_Symptoms._ These vary greatly in different cases, _mild_ and _severe_.
Some, in the same stable with the severe cases, simply refuse food, are
a little sluggish in work, cough, have hyperthermia (104° to 106° F.),
respirations 20–25, pulse 60, with conjunctiva only moderately yellow, a
slightly yellowish discharge from the nose, and no observable lung
consolidation. The temperature descends to normal in three to five days,
the symptoms generally abate, and the animal may be convalescent in
eight or ten days.
In the more _severe cases_ there may be seen a shivering fit, or it may
pass unobserved. Then the first morbid phenomenon is usually a rapid and
extreme elevation of temperature which may reach 104° or 106° F. in a
few hours. With this there is great impairment or complete loss of
appetite, and a loss of life and energy. In some cases the depression,
stupor and muscular weakness suggest influenza but this is not the rule.
Still more rare is infiltration of the eyelids and free watering of the
eyes, yet in the absence of this, drooping of the upper eyelids is not
uncommon. The respiration may be accelerated and short, from 20 to 30
per minute, and the pulse, which is usually small and weak in spite of
the fever, may rise to 50 or 70 per minute. The breathing may be
trembling or distinctly interrupted in the course of inhalation or
exhalation, short and with no interval between inspiration and
expiration. Cough may or may not be a marked feature, heard at long
intervals only in some cases and frequent and painful in others. It is
liable to be dry and husky rather than hard, loose or gurgling. The eye
and to a less extent the nasal and buccal mucosa tend to show a
yellowish shade, and this may even at an early stage show a distinct
brownish orange, or even a dark mahogany hue. Yet dropsy of the lids or
even epiphora are uncommon. A yellowish discharge from the nose is an
almost constant feature and this may dry up into a yellow crust on the
floor of the anterior nares and adjacent skin. The percussion and
auscultatory indications of lung consolidation are rarely obtainable
before the end of the second or third day and when at all extensive can
usually be detected on both sides. Trasbot considers the double
pneumonia as almost pathognomonic of contagious pneumonia. When confined
mainly to the lower parts of the lungs and occurring in isolated areas,
with lung tissue still pervious to air in the intervals, it comes more
nearly to being so. Crepitation round the border of consolidated areas,
is a more marked feature than in equal consolidations in influenza. It
often becomes inaudible again as the disease advances. Blowing murmurs,
coarse mucous râles, heart and intestinal sounds can often be heard with
unusual clearness, in unusual situations, when an area of consolidated
lung is immediately beneath. A transient dry friction sound of
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