Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swine / by G. Moussu and Jno. A.W. Dollar.

  • Moussu, G. (Gustave), 1864-1945.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swine / by G. Moussu and Jno. A.W. Dollar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hidebound, appetite variable, sometimes impaired, and nearly always pei \ ei ted (01 depiaxed) so that the patient will lick the manger con- tinually or pick up and chew all sorts of objects: hones, leather, clothing, wood or iron, stones, etc. The amount of food consumed may, however, he up to the normal. The most marked feature is the difficulty and stiffness of locomotion. . . . Temperature and yield of milk may remain normal. “ Later, appetite and milk secretion fail, temperature rises a degree or two, the animal refuses to rise, remaining down twelve to twenty-four hours at a time, and . . . when rising . . . remaining on the knees for a time, moaning and indisposed to exert itself further. At this stage many cases begin to improve and may get well in five or six weeks. Some will remain down for several weeks and finally get up Fig. 5.—Head of a pig suffering from osseous cachexia. and recover. With constant decubitus, however, the animal falls off greatly, becoming emaciated and weak, the appetite may fail altogether, and the patient is worn out by the persistent fever, nervous exhaustion and poisoning from the numerous bed-sores . . . which are common over the bony prominences. It is in these last conditions, above all, that fractures and distortions of the pelvic bones, and less frequently of the bones of the legs occur.” “ The disease may advance for two or three months, and in case of pelvic fractures and distortions, there may be permanent lameness, and - dangerous obstruction to parturition, even though the bones shoulel- acquire their normal hardness through the deposition of lime salts.” In horses, the different phases of the disease develop precisely as in bovines. The apparent differences between affected horses and cattle result in reality from differences in their capacity for continuing work. In the first phase, horses are incapable of work, their movements being
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