Möller's operative veterinary surgery / translated and edited from the second enlarged and improved edition of 1894 by Jno. A.W. Dollar.

Date:: 1895

Credit: Möller's operative veterinary surgery / translated and edited from the second enlarged and improved edition of 1894 by Jno. A.W. Dollar. 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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$by removing the thin wall with scissors and forceps. Stockfleth has described as ranula in cattle an entirely different condition, which takes a much more trouljlesome course, and must be regarded as a malignant inflammation of the sub-maxillary lymph glands (compare with affections of lymph glands). Hohenleitner states having seen two cases of ranula caused by actinomyces. The ranula disappeared after painting witli iodine, though stiffness of tlie tongue persisted. (F) FRACTURE OF THE HYOID BONE. Lit.: Schade, Gurlt u. Hertwig. 6, p. 31G. Herraud, The Vet., 1853. Rupprecht, Eerl. Th. Wocli, 1890, p. 329. Zipperlen, Rev. vet., 1880, p. 380. Bolle, Th. Mitth., 1881, p. 86. S i ed am g r o tz k y, Dre-sd. I>er., 1875, p. 26. On account of its sheltered position, fractures of the h.yoid bone are rare, but have nevertheless been observed. In horses and cattle they are produced by thrusts with the horn, and blows with the feet, or even by violent traction on the tongue. In dogs they result from roughly seizing them by the tliroat, as is sometimes done by the police in securing stray animals. The Appearances comprise salivation, prolapse of the tongue, ditFiculty in eating and especially in swallowing, accumulation of food in the mouth and swelling in the throat. In complicated fractures there may also be bleeding from the mouth, possibly of a severe character. Crepitation on moving the tongue can seldom be detected. Union of subcutaneous fractures is usually complete in four weeks. But it not infrequently happens that fragments of bone perforate the mucous membrane. Intense inilannnatory swelling then develops, which may quickly prove fatal (Herraud); or mastication and swallowing are interfered with, and death occurs from inanition, or the patients have to be slaughtered. I'atal bleeding sometimes results from splinters of bone injuring neighbouring blood-vessels, liupprecht relates that the broken hyoid of a horse perforated the guttural pouch and caused death by lacerating a large vessel. Asphy.xia caused by such bleeding occurring into the larynx and trachea is spoken of by Bolle. But even cases rendered complicated by exfoliation of large pieces of tlie hyoid may recover in from six to eight weeks, as Schade's experience shows. Treatment in simple fracture is confined tosupi)lying suitable food, which nnist be easily digestible and requiie little mastication. At the commencement, water may be given per rectum, especially if deglutition is difiicult, and soluble nourishment may be administered in the same$