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Tuberculosis in the Cat
The Veterinary Journal. TUBERCULOSIS IN THE CAT. By WILLIAM L. LITTLE, M.R.C.V.S. (Reading. )
THE following case was thought of sufficient interest to report. The subject was a half-bred Persian cat, nine months old, admitted to hospital for partial paralysis of the hind limbs, the animal falling over occasionally during walking. The left spermatic cord was enlarged and hardened, thought to be due to an accidental infection at the time of castration. After about one month, the left eye showed what appeared to be pus in the anterior chamber, and after a few days the lens became disloca.ted, and apparently absorbed, the iris being contracted; the retina, too, appeared affected. At this stage the patient was seen in consultation by Professor Hobday, and as palpation of the mesenteric glands revealed that these were distinctly enlarged, a diagnosis of probable tuberculosis was discussed with the owner, and the cat was destroyed. On post-mortem examination, the left spermatic cord was found to be affected up to the inguinal ring; the mesentery was much inflamed, and the colon showed enteritis. The mesenteric and thoracic glands were much enlarged; the lungs showed no macroscopic lesions. The right hemisphere of the cerebrum had a caseating nodule the size of a horse bean attached to the .Dura Mater, the brain case being affected over the nodule. Sir J. McFadyean kindly examined the lesions and confirmed the diagnosis of tuberculosis. The cat had been leared from a kitten by the owner, and had always been given a plentiful supply of cow's milk. I could not obtain any evidence of contact with any person or animal affected with tuberculosis.
Bbstract. ABSTRACT FROM A REPORT UPON TWENTY-FIVE CASES OF HUMAN ACTINOMYCOSIS, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO VACCINE THERAPY.· By LEONARD COLEBROOK, M.B., B.S.Lond., Assistant, Bacteriological Dept., National Institute jor Medical Research, Hampstead.
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DISCUSSION OF SOME PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH THE DISEASE.
IN a previous communicationt I have described the mycelial and other micro-organisms met with in investigating a series of cases of human actinomycosis, most of which were under treatment at the • The complete Report appears in The Lancet, 1921, i., 893. t British Jour . Expel' . Pathology, 1920, i., 197.
THE following case was thought of sufficient interest to report. The subject was a half-bred Persian cat, nine months old, admitted to hospital for partial paralysis of the hind limbs, the animal falling over occasionally during walking. The left spermatic cord was enlarged and hardened, thought to be due to an accidental infection at the time of castration. After about one month, the left eye showed what appeared to be pus in the anterior chamber, and after a few days the lens became disloca.ted, and apparently absorbed, the iris being contracted; the retina, too, appeared affected. At this stage the patient was seen in consultation by Professor Hobday, and as palpation of the mesenteric glands revealed that these were distinctly enlarged, a diagnosis of probable tuberculosis was discussed with the owner, and the cat was destroyed. On post-mortem examination, the left spermatic cord was found to be affected up to the inguinal ring; the mesentery was much inflamed, and the colon showed enteritis. The mesenteric and thoracic glands were much enlarged; the lungs showed no macroscopic lesions. The right hemisphere of the cerebrum had a caseating nodule the size of a horse bean attached to the .Dura Mater, the brain case being affected over the nodule. Sir J. McFadyean kindly examined the lesions and confirmed the diagnosis of tuberculosis. The cat had been leared from a kitten by the owner, and had always been given a plentiful supply of cow's milk. I could not obtain any evidence of contact with any person or animal affected with tuberculosis.
Bbstract. ABSTRACT FROM A REPORT UPON TWENTY-FIVE CASES OF HUMAN ACTINOMYCOSIS, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO VACCINE THERAPY.· By LEONARD COLEBROOK, M.B., B.S.Lond., Assistant, Bacteriological Dept., National Institute jor Medical Research, Hampstead.
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DISCUSSION OF SOME PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH THE DISEASE.
IN a previous communicationt I have described the mycelial and other micro-organisms met with in investigating a series of cases of human actinomycosis, most of which were under treatment at the • The complete Report appears in The Lancet, 1921, i., 893. t British Jour . Expel' . Pathology, 1920, i., 197.