Volume 1
Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals / by Franz Hutyra and Josef Marek.
- Hutyra, Ferenc, 1860-1934.
- Date:
- 1916-1917
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals / by Franz Hutyra and Josef Marek. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![APPENDIX. Lymphorrhagia. _ Etiology. In horses and cattle, and exceptionally in other animals swellings develop sometimes in a short time, in variable number and extent, containing a clear lymph-like fluid which may be mixed with dead tissue shreds. According to Hoffmann and Dratschinsky these swellings are due to tears between the skin and fascia or between muscle and fascia, produced by some con- siderable injury which has a pushing or pulling action. Into these tears lymph flows from the torn lymph vessels and is mixed with the torn tissue particles. (Astrachanzew found once in the lymph a worm 5 em. long, which he believed to be a kind of Filaria medinensis. ) | Bayer has seen lymph effusions in a cat, in circular arrangement around the nipples; the lymph vessels were dilated. Symptoms. Sometimes the swellings form successively in the course of several days and produce marked changes in form if they become confluent. In the case of a cow, reported by Zonda, which had broken down beneath a bull, swellings like those just described formed on the lower abdomen, on the chest and on the internal aspect of the thighs, all in the course of four days. Although the appetite is not impaired the animals rapidly become emaciated, owing to the loss of nutritive material. The swellings are not painful or warm, but they show fluctuation if situated superficially. After incision a clear, yellow odorless lymph flows out, or sometimes a dirty yellow or reddish, 1ll- smelling fluid which is mixed with tissue shreds. The quantity. may be considerable. Treatment. The swellings are usually treated by incision, removal of the lymph, irrigation of the cavities with disinfecting solutions or the application of disinfecting powders, finally the application of a compressing dressing. . Sometimes continued irrigation of the cavity with lukewarm solutions of corrosive sublimate is of benefit (on opening such swellings there is always danger of septic infection [Johne]). If the skin has been loosened over a large extent it may have to be sutured to the underlying tissue. Small swellings disappear on the appli- cation of warm compresses and massage. The patients must be nourished generously. Literature. Astrachanzew, A. f. Vet.-Wiss., 1893. 204. — Dratschinsky, ibid., 1904. 787. — Hoffmann, Z. f. Vk., 1897. 1. — Vennerholm, Svensk Vet.-Tidsskr., 1904, IX. 537. — Walley, J. of comp. Path., 1892. 360. — Zonda, Vet., 1894. 369.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32763499_0001_1243.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
