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Hepatic Abscess in the Horse
H epatic Abscess in the Horse.
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excellent works-Williams's" Principles and Practice of Veterinary Medicine," and Fleming's" Manual of Veterinary Sanitary Science and Police." The former devotes some twelve pages to the subject of Glanders, and the latter has some seventy-five pages on the same subject. Mr. Fleming's is, without exception. the most comprehensive natural history of the disease, so far as its nature, diagnosis, and every phase of these affections is concerned. Everything pertaining to Glanders is so clearly exhibited in this work, that it would be supererogatory to enter upon the subj ect in the pages of the Journal. Moreover, there is in the pages of the latter the excellent essay read before the Midland Counties Veterinary Medical Association on January 11th, 1876, by Mr. Fleming, to be found in vol. ii. No. ix., pp. 189 et seq., and which should be ,most attentively read and considered by the student. The prevalence of this direful disease in England at the present time-and it appears in India also from the report in the December Journal-makes the subject of grave importance. My object has been to offer such suggestions on its diagnosis as occur to me on reading over my " case-diary," and so to excite careful investigation; thus preventing the grave errors in diagnosis which have been reported in the daily papers, and which are so damaging to the profession, as we~l as to lead the students to apply themselves to clinics and Mr. Atkinson's field of observation. HEPATIC ABSCESS IN THE HORSE. BY J. A. NUNN, ¥.R.C.V.S., ROYAL ARTILLERY, JELLALABAD, AFGHANISTAN.
I 'SEND the following account of a case of Hepatic Abscess which recently came under my notice. On marching into Jellalabad, on the evening of the 16th of October, I was requested by an officer on General Gough's staff to look at one of his chargers. On inspection I discovered that the animal was suffering from congestion of the liver, with acute Laminitis of all four feet. These conditions I treated by removing the shoes, having poultices applied to the feet, administering fever medicines, and, in
The VekriJlary '.Journal. shcrt, all the usual remedi es. The animal was a grey Ar;:b stallion, rising six years old, and had been marched from Jhelum to Peshav"'ur-179 miles. He was ridden by his owner from Basa\vul to Barakhab-twelve mil es-on the 10th, when he was noticed to be sluggish and dull, and his dung very offensive. On the lith he was placed und er the care of the" Salootrie," of the Guides Cavalry, who, from what I can make out, treated him with repeated small doses of Tartar Emetic and Calorr.el ; but on this poi nt I cannot be quite certain, as my informant was a Boothan who spoke but very lit tle Hindustani. On the 17th inst. I was requested again to visit the animal, about four p.m., as he had suddenly become very much worse. He was then showing symptoms of abdominal pain; persistently maintaining the re~ cum bent position., groaning, and 'grinding the teeth. The pulse was seventy-two per · minute; bowels relaxed, f.:eces a bright yellow colour, and having a most offensive odour. On making the horse rise, in order to receive some medicine, I observed a large patch of perspiration on the left side of the body, just behind the last false rib. The animal was very weak and exhausted. I therefore administered an anodyne draught, with half-a-pint of whisky, and had the abdomen fom ented. On again visiting the patient at six p.m., he appeared to be free from pain, but was evidently fast sinking. He died at eleven p.m. the same date. Post-mortem examination twelve hours after death. On opening the (lbdomen, a quantity of thick-looking fluid escaped. All the organs were healthy except the liver, which was much congested, and in the left lobe of which was the cavity of a re:ently-burst abscess, which would probably have held a pint of pus. The abdominal cavity contained a quantity of .pus mingled with serum. The peritoneum, anteriorly, was somewhat .congested. No other lesion could be observed. A FeET AL MONSTROSITY. BY
J.
WILSON, M.R.C.V.S., NANTWICH.
ON Sunday afternoon, October 19th, I was requested to attend a valuable Alderney cow, the property of Wilbraham Tollemache, Esq., of Dorfold Hall. V pon my arrival I found her standing
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excellent works-Williams's" Principles and Practice of Veterinary Medicine," and Fleming's" Manual of Veterinary Sanitary Science and Police." The former devotes some twelve pages to the subject of Glanders, and the latter has some seventy-five pages on the same subject. Mr. Fleming's is, without exception. the most comprehensive natural history of the disease, so far as its nature, diagnosis, and every phase of these affections is concerned. Everything pertaining to Glanders is so clearly exhibited in this work, that it would be supererogatory to enter upon the subj ect in the pages of the Journal. Moreover, there is in the pages of the latter the excellent essay read before the Midland Counties Veterinary Medical Association on January 11th, 1876, by Mr. Fleming, to be found in vol. ii. No. ix., pp. 189 et seq., and which should be ,most attentively read and considered by the student. The prevalence of this direful disease in England at the present time-and it appears in India also from the report in the December Journal-makes the subject of grave importance. My object has been to offer such suggestions on its diagnosis as occur to me on reading over my " case-diary," and so to excite careful investigation; thus preventing the grave errors in diagnosis which have been reported in the daily papers, and which are so damaging to the profession, as we~l as to lead the students to apply themselves to clinics and Mr. Atkinson's field of observation. HEPATIC ABSCESS IN THE HORSE. BY J. A. NUNN, ¥.R.C.V.S., ROYAL ARTILLERY, JELLALABAD, AFGHANISTAN.
I 'SEND the following account of a case of Hepatic Abscess which recently came under my notice. On marching into Jellalabad, on the evening of the 16th of October, I was requested by an officer on General Gough's staff to look at one of his chargers. On inspection I discovered that the animal was suffering from congestion of the liver, with acute Laminitis of all four feet. These conditions I treated by removing the shoes, having poultices applied to the feet, administering fever medicines, and, in
The VekriJlary '.Journal. shcrt, all the usual remedi es. The animal was a grey Ar;:b stallion, rising six years old, and had been marched from Jhelum to Peshav"'ur-179 miles. He was ridden by his owner from Basa\vul to Barakhab-twelve mil es-on the 10th, when he was noticed to be sluggish and dull, and his dung very offensive. On the lith he was placed und er the care of the" Salootrie," of the Guides Cavalry, who, from what I can make out, treated him with repeated small doses of Tartar Emetic and Calorr.el ; but on this poi nt I cannot be quite certain, as my informant was a Boothan who spoke but very lit tle Hindustani. On the 17th inst. I was requested again to visit the animal, about four p.m., as he had suddenly become very much worse. He was then showing symptoms of abdominal pain; persistently maintaining the re~ cum bent position., groaning, and 'grinding the teeth. The pulse was seventy-two per · minute; bowels relaxed, f.:eces a bright yellow colour, and having a most offensive odour. On making the horse rise, in order to receive some medicine, I observed a large patch of perspiration on the left side of the body, just behind the last false rib. The animal was very weak and exhausted. I therefore administered an anodyne draught, with half-a-pint of whisky, and had the abdomen fom ented. On again visiting the patient at six p.m., he appeared to be free from pain, but was evidently fast sinking. He died at eleven p.m. the same date. Post-mortem examination twelve hours after death. On opening the (lbdomen, a quantity of thick-looking fluid escaped. All the organs were healthy except the liver, which was much congested, and in the left lobe of which was the cavity of a re:ently-burst abscess, which would probably have held a pint of pus. The abdominal cavity contained a quantity of .pus mingled with serum. The peritoneum, anteriorly, was somewhat .congested. No other lesion could be observed. A FeET AL MONSTROSITY. BY
J.
WILSON, M.R.C.V.S., NANTWICH.
ON Sunday afternoon, October 19th, I was requested to attend a valuable Alderney cow, the property of Wilbraham Tollemache, Esq., of Dorfold Hall. V pon my arrival I found her standing