The management and diseases of the dog / by John Woodroffe Hill.

Date:
1878
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Credit: The management and diseases of the dog / by John Woodroffe Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    b]ood-tinged serum escaped, but uo trace of any parasites can be found either in the tubes or parenchyma of the lungs. No ova or young parasites can be found in the blood of the ca^dties of the heart or of the pulmonary artery. Abdominal viscera appear healthy, though, owing to the obstruction in the lesser circulation, the bloodvessels are engorged. A few ascarides in the intestine, and one small ttenia elliptica. Case 3.—Dog pup, six months old. In the left lung there are scattered patches of j)neumonia in the anterior lobe, one or two are in the middle lobe, and half-a-dozen, the size of marbles, closely set together in the Tipper part of posterior lobe. In the right lung the anterior lobe is solid in an area 3 by 1, extending along the lower free border, and through the whole thickness. Small patches occur here and there over the other lobes. In this instance the inflamed spots are smaller, and not so extensive as in the other cases. On slitting up the trachea the mucous membrane looks healthy to within 2 of the bifurcation, when it becomes swollen, dark red in colour, and thickly scattered over with the elevated granular masses noticed in the first case, attached to and in which numerous small white worms can be seen. A stream of water of considerable force does not wash them away, but shows that each little elevation consists of a nest of the parasites. They extend to the tubes of the second order, and are specially abundant at the bifurcation itself, and about the orifices of the first tubes given off from the main bronchi. The small tubes are fiUed up with a frothy serum. Two of the worms are found far in the mucus. Stomach and intestines appear healthy, except the lower portion of the ileum, which is congested. In this region ten specimens of dochmius trigonocephalus occur, and further up in the bowel eight ascarides. Case 4—A six months old dog pup brought to the in- firmary and died the next day.