The Farmer's Veterinarian: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Farm StockBurkett, Charles William
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The Farmer's Veterinarian: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Farm Stock
Burkett, Charles William
Veterinary medicine
At the autopsy of an ordinary case of cholera the first and perhaps the
most striking thing seen is the purpling of the skin. On opening the
carcass small blood spots may be found under the skin and in the fat cut
through. The glands along the intestines are intensely inflamed. The
mucous membrane of the stomach is frequently thickened and roughened and
in chronic cases there may be ulcers. On opening the intestines we see
areas here and there of intense inflammation in the acute cases or
numerous ulcers in cases of more chronic type. In very acute cases we
find areas intensely inflamed, even bloody in places. The slow chronic
cases develop characteristic hog cholera ulcers. These may appear at
almost any point on the lining membrane, but more particularly in the
blind pouch and around the point where the small intestine connects with
the large intestine. On stripping off a very thin transparent membrane
covering the kidneys, a typical case of hog cholera will usually show
minute red spots on the surface somewhat resembling the covering of a
turkey egg, which gives the common name of turkey egg kidney of hog
cholera.
=Preventing the Disease.=--Clearly there are certain things which the
owner of healthy hogs in a hog cholera district should do and a good
many things which he should not do. The same is equally true for the man
who has sick hogs in a neighborhood where there are uninfected herds.
The owner of healthy hogs and his family should keep away from public
stock yards, from all pens and yards on other farms whether sickness
among hogs prevails or not. It may easily occur that a neighbor’s hogs
may appear well but have recently received the infection and be already
capable of scattering the disease. We do not know at what period in the
development of this disease infected hogs become capable of
disseminating hog cholera.
During a hog cholera season the owner of healthy hogs should institute
something in the way of private quarantine and pleasantly, perhaps, but
firmly, ask visitors, especially stock buyers and threshing machine
crews, to keep at a reasonable distance from the pens and yards. It is
safer for one man to have exclusive care of healthy hogs during the hog
cholera season, and this man should be very careful where he goes with
reference to possible infection. Special fencing or other provisions
should be made wherever practical to keep dogs out of the pens and
yards, for, under certain conditions, dogs become very active agents in
spreading the disease.
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