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Laminitis Occurring at Grass
The Veteri1lary 7ournal. often difficult, but to describe it is, in my opinion, much more so; though in this case my task is comparatively an easy one, as the whole business is very simple. The animal being cast, I use Professor Varnell's balling iron to extend the jaws, and have an assistant to hold the tongue, while another, with a long smooth iron, pushes the cheek out of the way, and make quite sure that I get my forceps on the right tooth, and that only; when this is clone I give a slight rotatory motion; then place my lever on the anterior tooth, immediately under the rivet of the forcep s, and raise the tooth, which must come. \Vhen I know the tooth is loosened, which I can tell by a peculiar sucking noise, I take a fresh hold of it a little lower down, and incline it slightly to the inside, at the same time raising it-then out it comes withcut any injury to the jaw. In no case have I found injury at the time or afterwards t o the anterior tooth from the pressure of the lever. I can extract the longest molars, and frequently the fifth one, without breaking a fang, and have seen Mr. Whitwell, my late partner, extract the sixth. I do nothing to the jaw subsequently, and merely order soft, nutritious food for the patient. I never saw anything but good results follow the operation. The instrument is an improvement on one invented by my predecessor, Mr. T. Wells, M.R.C.V.S., orwich, and used by him successfully for a number of years. LAMINITIS OCCURRING AT GRASS. BY W. STANLEY CARLESS, M.R.C.V.S., LINCOLN.
ON July 3rd an interesting case of Laminitis came under my notice. The subject was a mare, eight years old, which had b een running on the common here for some months, and was taken tlp on the night of July 2nd by a boy, who did not observe anything amiss with her. The follovving morning, on the owner going to the stable he found the animal in great pain, and at once sent for me. I discovered her to be suffering from Laminitis, and saw her again in the evening, when she was much worse. The attack proved to be a most severe one. The owner informed me that she had not been allowed any
Disease accompanying Contagz'ous P !.mro-pucumon£a. £77 corn for t wo months, a nd that she had no distance to travel on the road from the common. Though on such a poor pasture, the mare was very fat ; she had never been unwell before this attack. This is th e fir st case I h ave seen of L aminitis occurring when an animal was on grass. 'vVe have many cases of Laminitis here, due to the usual causes.
A NEW DISEASE A CCOMPANYING CONTA GIO US PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN QUEENSLAND. BY P.
R. GORDON, CHIEF INSPECTOR OF STOCK, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND.
I SEND herewith a short description, by Mr. Geary, a practical grazier, of a disease that accompanied an outbreak of Pleuropneumon ia in one of the far inland districts of this colony recently. It caused severe losses amongst several mobs of fat cattle that were bein g travelled to market. Perhaps some of the contributors to the V ETERINARY JOURNA L may be able, even from thi s meag re descri ption, to state what the disease was, or the probable cause. By doing so they will confer a favour on many of the Australian readers of the Journal. "During the last severe attack of Pleuro-pneumoni a in the Warrego district, it was accompanied by a phase of the disease I had never previously seen, although, as y ou know, I h ave had a vast experience in the disorder. I first saw th is form of the disease in a travelling mob of cattle that were in low condition. The first symptoms were those usually observable in Pleuropneumonia. These were in every instance followed by a rapid swelling of the upper p art of the flank and body, from the hips forward, gene rally on the near side. The animals app eared t o suffer severely, and about the sixth day, when the swelling was at its worst, a black and most offensive diarrhcea set in. The a nimals at this st age made for water, and generally after drinking freely died almost immed iately. The whole cou rse of this (to me) new disease never exceeded a week ; it was sh orter in the case of young cattle.
ON July 3rd an interesting case of Laminitis came under my notice. The subject was a mare, eight years old, which had b een running on the common here for some months, and was taken tlp on the night of July 2nd by a boy, who did not observe anything amiss with her. The follovving morning, on the owner going to the stable he found the animal in great pain, and at once sent for me. I discovered her to be suffering from Laminitis, and saw her again in the evening, when she was much worse. The attack proved to be a most severe one. The owner informed me that she had not been allowed any
Disease accompanying Contagz'ous P !.mro-pucumon£a. £77 corn for t wo months, a nd that she had no distance to travel on the road from the common. Though on such a poor pasture, the mare was very fat ; she had never been unwell before this attack. This is th e fir st case I h ave seen of L aminitis occurring when an animal was on grass. 'vVe have many cases of Laminitis here, due to the usual causes.
A NEW DISEASE A CCOMPANYING CONTA GIO US PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN QUEENSLAND. BY P.
R. GORDON, CHIEF INSPECTOR OF STOCK, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND.
I SEND herewith a short description, by Mr. Geary, a practical grazier, of a disease that accompanied an outbreak of Pleuropneumon ia in one of the far inland districts of this colony recently. It caused severe losses amongst several mobs of fat cattle that were bein g travelled to market. Perhaps some of the contributors to the V ETERINARY JOURNA L may be able, even from thi s meag re descri ption, to state what the disease was, or the probable cause. By doing so they will confer a favour on many of the Australian readers of the Journal. "During the last severe attack of Pleuro-pneumoni a in the Warrego district, it was accompanied by a phase of the disease I had never previously seen, although, as y ou know, I h ave had a vast experience in the disorder. I first saw th is form of the disease in a travelling mob of cattle that were in low condition. The first symptoms were those usually observable in Pleuropneumonia. These were in every instance followed by a rapid swelling of the upper p art of the flank and body, from the hips forward, gene rally on the near side. The animals app eared t o suffer severely, and about the sixth day, when the swelling was at its worst, a black and most offensive diarrhcea set in. The a nimals at this st age made for water, and generally after drinking freely died almost immed iately. The whole cou rse of this (to me) new disease never exceeded a week ; it was sh orter in the case of young cattle.