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A Case of Gastric Ulcer
The Veterinary Journal.
108
anthrax spores and kept dry in the dark for eighteen months, the duration of exposure was twenty-four hours; the amount of alcohol consumed was 59,000 m.; the distances of the objects from the lamp were respectively 9 feet, 6 feet, feet; the cultivating test media were respectively bouillon, agar, bouillon. The result was complete steril isation in each case. The control experiment gave abundant growth, In five experiments with partially-dried tuberculosis sputum, the duration of experiment was twenty-four hours. The amount of alcohol consumed was 2950 m.; the distances were as in the anthrax experiments. In every case the result was complete sterilisation. For practice, the only point to decide is this: Can Professor Delepine's conditions be reproduced? This I shall discuss further on. These striking experiments are in many ways confirmed by the work of Messrs. F. C. Robinson and B. L. Bryant in their "Bacteriological Report upon Formaldehyde." 1 But their results are best discussed under methods of application. All the leading facts have been summarised by Dr. A. G. Young.2 With two or three exeeptions the authorities speak in the same sense as Professor De1epine.
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<:tltntcal lPapers. A CASE OF GASTRIC ULCER. BY JOHN FREEMAN, F.R.C.V.S.
A SCOTCH deerhound of enormous size, the property of Stewart Kennedy, Esquire, was sent to me at the request of Mr. Finlay Kerr for treatment. From his appearance he would lead one to suppose he had worms, for which he was treated, but with no result. H e was then put under tonic treatment, but no improvement took place, although the dog fed well and was lively, but gradually kept wasting away and losing more or less power of the hind limbs. Diagnosis.-Pernicious anremia. For change he was sent to Mr. Ruby's Convalescent Home in Blackrock, and for days seemed to improve, feed well, and he took his exercise well. On the fourth day I received a telegram :- " Come at once, dog very swelled"; and almost immediately a second telegram, saying :-" Dog dead; send for carcase." The carcase arrived at O'Keefe's (the knacker's), and was enormously swollen (emphysematous). On opening into the abdominal cavity I noticed that the contents of either bowel or stomach were floating about, and on further examination I found a perforating gastric ulcer the size of half-a-crown; the edges of the ulcer we re as clean as if punched out, and no inflammation was evident. The rest of the stomach was quite healthy; likewise all the internal organs. The peculiarity of this case was the total absence of any gastric symptoms. 1
Maine Report, 1896-97. pp. 132-169.
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Ibid.• pp. 234-265.
108
anthrax spores and kept dry in the dark for eighteen months, the duration of exposure was twenty-four hours; the amount of alcohol consumed was 59,000 m.; the distances of the objects from the lamp were respectively 9 feet, 6 feet, feet; the cultivating test media were respectively bouillon, agar, bouillon. The result was complete steril isation in each case. The control experiment gave abundant growth, In five experiments with partially-dried tuberculosis sputum, the duration of experiment was twenty-four hours. The amount of alcohol consumed was 2950 m.; the distances were as in the anthrax experiments. In every case the result was complete sterilisation. For practice, the only point to decide is this: Can Professor Delepine's conditions be reproduced? This I shall discuss further on. These striking experiments are in many ways confirmed by the work of Messrs. F. C. Robinson and B. L. Bryant in their "Bacteriological Report upon Formaldehyde." 1 But their results are best discussed under methods of application. All the leading facts have been summarised by Dr. A. G. Young.2 With two or three exeeptions the authorities speak in the same sense as Professor De1epine.
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(To be continued.)
<:tltntcal lPapers. A CASE OF GASTRIC ULCER. BY JOHN FREEMAN, F.R.C.V.S.
A SCOTCH deerhound of enormous size, the property of Stewart Kennedy, Esquire, was sent to me at the request of Mr. Finlay Kerr for treatment. From his appearance he would lead one to suppose he had worms, for which he was treated, but with no result. H e was then put under tonic treatment, but no improvement took place, although the dog fed well and was lively, but gradually kept wasting away and losing more or less power of the hind limbs. Diagnosis.-Pernicious anremia. For change he was sent to Mr. Ruby's Convalescent Home in Blackrock, and for days seemed to improve, feed well, and he took his exercise well. On the fourth day I received a telegram :- " Come at once, dog very swelled"; and almost immediately a second telegram, saying :-" Dog dead; send for carcase." The carcase arrived at O'Keefe's (the knacker's), and was enormously swollen (emphysematous). On opening into the abdominal cavity I noticed that the contents of either bowel or stomach were floating about, and on further examination I found a perforating gastric ulcer the size of half-a-crown; the edges of the ulcer we re as clean as if punched out, and no inflammation was evident. The rest of the stomach was quite healthy; likewise all the internal organs. The peculiarity of this case was the total absence of any gastric symptoms. 1
Maine Report, 1896-97. pp. 132-169.
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Ibid.• pp. 234-265.