SPECIAL REPORT ON DISEASES OF CATTLE
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House of Representatives, and said documents shall be distributed by Members of the Senate and House of Representatives. CONTENTS.
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n clovers, beans, and peas cause very severe irritation of the lining membrane of the mouth and throat, resulting sometimes in gangrene of this tissue. _Polydesmus exitans_ grows on
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the cow has not tuberculosis, she should be kept apart from the other members of the herd. DISTENTION OF RUMEN OR PAUNCH WITH FEED. This form of indigestion is caused by the animal
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g animals which have died of this disease it is found that the lining membrane of the fourth stomach and the intestines, particularly the small intestine, is red, swollen, streaked wi
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lways severe and often fatal. _Post-mortem appearances._--The mucous membrane of the fourth stomach has a well-marked red color and sometimes presents ulcerations. The wall is thicke
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ere is a yellow appearance of the white of the eyes and of the mucous membrane of the mouth. A similar aspect of the skin may also be observed in animals which are either partly or al
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utward between the abdominal wall and the skin; _p p_, peritoneum, or membrane lining the abdominal cavity, carried through the opening _o_ by the loop of intestine and forming the sa
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rrhea is developed; in many cases blood and shreds of detached mucous membrane are mixed with the evacuations. There is irregular and feeble pulse and respiration, and death is likely
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ulse, difficult breathing, bluish discoloration of the visible mucous membranes, stupor, or convulsions. If the poison is not powerful or plentiful enough to produce death, it is, at
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general care should be as in pericarditis. ENDOCARDITIS. When the membrane which lines the cavities of the heart--the endocardium-- suffers inflammation, the disease is called end
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unt in making a diagnosis and in overcoming the disease. _The mucous membrane._--The mucous membrane should in all cases be examined. It can be readily seen by everting the eyelids o
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be given. LARYNGITIS (SORE THROAT). An inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the larynx is known as laryngitis. It may be either a primary or a secondary disease, complicated
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portion of the brain, known as the cerebellum. The meninges are the membranes, three in number, which envelop the brain and spinal cord, and separate them from the bones which form
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manifested. Post-mortem examinations have disclosed tubercles in the membranes of the brain. (See "Tuberculosis," p. 407.) Abscesses, usually the result of inflammation of the brain,
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backward beneath the loins, then inward, supported by a fold of thin membrane, to open into the bladder just in front of its neck. The canal passes first through the middle (muscular
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nchymatous); (3) the connective tissue (interstitial); (4) the lining membrane of its ducts (catarrhal); and (5) its pelvis or sac receiving the urine (pyelitis). It has also been dis
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t parturition. The irritation attendant on inflammation of the mucous membrane of the bladder may be a further cause of spasms of the neck, as may also be inflammation of the channel
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ough, crystalline surface, which proves very irritating to the mucous membrane. They have a specific gravity of 1.109 to 1.637, and are composed chiefly of ammonio-magnesium phosphate
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pid and sometimes drowsy, with reddish-brown congestion of the lining membrane of the eyelids; pressure on the abdomen causes pain, flinching, and perhaps groaning, and the lowest par
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f the parts. The sheath has a very small external opening, the mucous membrane of which is studded with sebaceous glands secreting a thick, unctuous matter of a strong, heavy odor. Be
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formed cotyledons (Pl. XIII, fig. 2), to which in ruminants the fetal membranes are attached). At other times, unless the womb is opened in the effort to expel it, the polypus can be
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ntorted cord. There is in addition a series of diseases of the mucous membrane of the womb, and of the fetal membranes (inflammation, effusion of blood, detachment of the membranes fr
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e of cattle, characterized by an inflammatory condition of the mucous membrane of the vagina and the development of nodules upon its surface. This disease is very widely spread, but
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otion (carbolic acid 1 dram in 1 quart of water). CONSTRICTION OF A MEMBER BY THE NAVEL STRING. In early fetal life the winding of the navel string around a limb may cause the latt
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me firmly impacted. As a rule, each of the twins has its own separate membranes, and as the water bags of one will naturally first enter and be the first to burst, so the calf which o
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er parts cut through as they are drawn tense, until finally the whole member has been extracted. Traction on the rope round the other thigh will now suffice to extract, in most cases,
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the womb may be equally dry, inflamed and swollen, so that its lining membrane or even its entire thickness is easily torn; the fetal membranes have lost their natural, unctuous and s
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hrough the muscles, and more carefully through the transparent lining membrane of the abdomen (peritoneum), letting the point of the knife lie in the groove between the first two fing
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and the continued dilatation of the womb in the absence of the fetal membranes led to a flow of blood which accumulated in clots around the calf. Other causes are laceration of the c
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eptic materials retained in the womb cause inflammation of its lining membrane, and this, together with the absorption into the blood of the products of putrefaction, leads to ill hea
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pecially hot and the veins of the head full, while the visible mucous membranes of nose and eyes are deeply congested. The cow may lie on her breastbone with her feet beneath the bod
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esult of infection and sometimes run a very rapidly fatal course. I remember one to which I was called as soon as the owner noticed it, yet I found one-quarter dark blue, cold, and sh
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s and calculi. The movement is limited by the elasticity of the inner membrane of the teat from which it grows, and is somewhat freer in certain cases because the growth has become lo
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recognized by the blueness of the eyes, nose, mouth, and other mucous membranes, the coldness of the surface, and the extreme sensitiveness to cold. CONSTIPATION. At birth the bowe
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pective openings; also tongue-tie, in which the thin, flaccid, mucous membrane passing from the median line of the lower surface of the tongue binds the latter too closely to the floo
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tside through their covering, called the periosteum--the thin, strong membrane that covers every part of the bone except the articular surface of the joints; and, second, from within
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and the articular surface of the bone is covered by a thin, delicate membrane, known as the "synovial membrane," which secretes the joint oil (synovia). This fluid is viscid and colo
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structures of the joints, tendons, ligaments, and muscles. The serous membranes and heart may also be affected. According to its location, rheumatism is specified as articular or musc
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rnous angiomas are seen in cattle, affecting the liver and the mucous membrane of the nasal septum. In the liver they appear as smooth, flat, nonprojecting tumors of a dark-red or pur
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le, or a child's head. Its walls are formed by the diseased secreting membrane of the bursal sac, and are readily detachable from the subcutis of the skin. Their internal surfaces are
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tion may have advanced to softening and sloughing of the interdigital membrane. If the disease is neglected at this stage, deep abscesses may form and the pus burrow under the horny w
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subjacent to the choroid. The sclerotic is a strong, opaque, fibrous membrane, which, in a great measure, maintains the form of the eyeball and protects the more delicate structures
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or arises from the cornea or the sclerotic, covered by its respective membrane, with a growth of hair upon its surface. These tumors may be quite prominent or flattened, and are dark
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. Micrococci (streptococcus) which produce inflammation of the lining membranes of the abdomen, thorax, heart, brain, and joints. Frequently associated with the preceding bacteria in
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er, are very disagreeable and irritating to the eyes and nasal mucous membranes. One and one-half ounces of formalin added to 1 gallon of water is a valuable agent for the disinfectio
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ra may be covered with one or more layers of a firm, elastic, grayish membrane, which varies in thickness and which sometimes may be pulled away entirely. Sometimes it is absent. The
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to the digestive and respiratory organs become prominent. The mucous membrane of the mouth and the nose, as well as that of the rectum and vagina, becomes reddened, either in patches
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size of hempseeds or peas are making their appearance upon the mucous membranes of the mouth at the border and upper surface of the tongue near the tip, the inside of the cheeks, on t
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mulate the vesicular eruption of foot-and-mouth disease on the lining membrane of the mouth. When the blisters have ruptured, however, and the resulting lesions have become contaminat
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re may be a blood-stained discharge from the nostrils, and the mucous membrane thereof will often show punctiform hemorrhages. The pulmonary form shows the same symptoms as croupous p
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he most common of which is tuberculosis of the brain and its covering membranes. The post-mortem lesions, however, should assist in making a correct diagnosis. Tetanus may readily be
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e number of cases the changes are limited to the lungs and the serous membranes[4] of the thorax and abdomen. Pathologists have been in the habit of calling the lung disease tuberculo
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e small and obscure. While this fact is admitted, it should also be remembered that such a small lesion to-day may break down and become widely disseminated in a relatively short peri
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ionally the ends of the bones, where they are covered by the synovial membrane of the joints, are dotted with tubercles. The muscular system itself is very rarely the seat of tubercul
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eruptions of cowpox as a safeguard against the ravages of smallpox in members of the human family is well known. The immunity which such vaccination confers upon the human subject has
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g the prickly fruit of the cactus plant, causing wounds of the mucous membrane and subsequent infection with the parasite. Much additional information of a similar kind must be forthc
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of the chest are strained during breathing, while the visible mucous membranes (nose, mouth, rectum, and vagina) become bluish. If the disease has started in the bowels, there is muc
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is not infrequently found, together with bloodstaining of the lining membrane of these cavities. Blood spots (or ecchymoses) are also found on the heart and lungs. The liver is conge
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the lung and in the liver and necrotic patches observed on the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract. _Symptoms._--Necrotic stomatitis is both a local and a systemic affectio
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s, giving the urine a deep-red color, with a yellowness of the mucous membranes and fat, which is seen more especially in fat cattle, by a rapid loss of strength, and with fatal resul
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loped a very satisfactory arsenical dip. Two formulas are given for homemade dips, one known as the "S-B" (self-boiled) and the other as the boiled dip. The former is the one usually
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also involves the large intestines, including the rectum. The mucous membrane may alone be affected, although usually in the long-standing cases the submucosa is also invaded and the
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market are usually more expensive, and often less efficacious than homemade mixtures. At the Minnesota experiment station rancid lard 1 pound and kerosene one-half pint, mixed thoro
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cated by a field test approved by the Bureau of Animal Industry. A homemade nicotin dip may be prepared as follows: For each 100 gallons of dip desired, take 21 pounds of good, prep
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e or of the gullet. Bleeding at the mouth or nose may be noticed, the membranes where the leech is attached are liable to be swollen and congested, and as a result of the loss of bloo
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here is present in the affected animals an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth. This inflammation, which quickly develops into ulcers, is one of the principal and most fr
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The absence of suppurating sores between the claws and on the mucous membrane of the mouth, the knowledge that the lesion upon the limb in question extends uninterruptedly around it,
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limbs and between thighs, during pregnancy, cause, 162 membranes of fetus, description and treatment 162 navel, description and treatment,
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loping outside womb, description and treatment, 163 membranes, dropsy affecting, description and treatment, 162 prolonged retention, description and tr
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nard Pearson, 7-11 Membrana nictitans of eye, description, 343 Meninges, number and functions,
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scription, 330 Sclerotic membrane of eye, description, 341 Scouring-- acute contagious, in newborn calv
value as remedy for stomach worms, 521-523
"Feeding-lot" method of freeing cattle and pastures from ticks, 494-497
Fetlock--
fracture below, treatment, 282
sprain, causes and treatment, 269
Fetus--
developing outside womb, description and treatment, 163
membranes, dropsy affecting, description and treatment, 162
prolonged retention, description and treatment, 164
Fever--
milk, description, symptoms, and treatment, 226-237
parturition, description, symptoms, and treatment, 226
southern, splenetic, or Texas. _See_ Texas fever.
Fibroma--
interdigital, description and treatment, 338
tumor, description and treatment, 311
Fibrous periostitis, description and treatment, 266
_Filaria cervina_, worm found in the eye, 349
_Filaria lablato-papillosa_, parasitic roundworm of cattle, 524
_Filaria oculi_, description and treatment, 349
Fissure of the wall of hoof, description and treatment, 338
Fistula, milk, description and treatment, 245
Flies--
injurious to cattle, 502-506
larval, note, 502
Flooding from womb, description and treatment, 214
Fluke disease, control by use of lime, 526
Flukes, prevention by drainage, 526
Fly--
Spanish, poison, description and treatment, 70
stable, breeding places, 503
Fly preventives, injury to cattle by poisoning, 503
Flytrap, use against stable flies, 503
Fluke, disease of cattle, 526
Flukes, liver and lungs, description, 526
Foods, character, effect on digestive organs, 12
Foot--
diseases affecting, chapter by M. R. Trumbower, 335-339
foul, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 336
soreness, description and treatment, 335
Foot rot, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 336
Foot-and-mouth disease--
benign, simple, or noninfectious, 535
danger to man, 394-395
description, cause, symptoms, etc., 383-395
diagnosis, 391-392
eradication by slaughter, efficacy, 394
incubation period, 384
losses other than by death of animal, 384
mortality, 384, 391
occurrence in various countries of world, 385-386
prevention and eradication, 392-394
similarity to mycotic stomatitis, 536
symptoms, 383, 389-391
symptoms in man, 394
United States, outbreaks, 386-389
Forage, insects on, description of poisonous effect, 70
Formaldehyde gas, liberation by use of permanganate, 365
Foul in foot, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 336
Founder, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 335
Fractures--
below hock and fetlock, description and treatment, 282
compound, comminuted, and complicated, 271
description of different kinds, and treatment, 271-282
face bones, description and treatment, 277
general symptoms and treatment, 272, 273
hip point, causes and treatment, 280
horns, description and treatment, 277
limbs, description and appliances for treatment, 281-2
lower jaw, cause and treatment, 278
metacarpus and metatarsus, description and treatment, 282
pelvis, description and treatment, 178, 279
ribs, cause and treatment, 281
special, descriptions and treatment, 277
spinal column, description and treatment, 279
vertebra, description and treatment, 279
France, foot-and-mouth disease, 385
Froesch, note on destruction of foot-and-mouth infection, 395
Frostbites--
ears, symptoms and treatment, 357
treatment, 334
Fungi, poisonous, description of poisoning, 70
Fungoid growth of the ear, cause and treatment, 356
Fungus hematodes--
cause and treatment, 353
description, 316
Furunculus, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 328
Ganglionic division of the nervous system, 103
Gangrene, danger in castration of cattle, 300
Gangrenous septicemia, symptoms and treatment, 472
Garget, description and treatment, 233
Gas--
cause of swelling in calf, treatment, 181
under the skin, symptoms and treatment, 334
Gastroenteritis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 33
Gastrointestinal catarrh, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 29, 32
Generative organs--
diseases, chapter by James Law, 147-214
discussion, 147
Genital organs, vesicular eruption affecting, description,
symptoms, and treatment, 401
Germany, foot-and-mouth disease, 385-386
Gestation, extra-uterine, description and treatment, 163
Gid, parasite of sheep and cattle, 528
Glands, skin, location and use, 321
Gnats, buffalo, description and remedy, 505
Goiter, cause, description, symptoms, and treatment, 310
Gonorrhea, description and treatment, 156
Gravel--
description and cause, 130
effect of different feeds, 132
in prepuce or sheath, treatment, 144
Great Britain, foot-and-mouth disease, 386
Grubs, cattle, description, 507
Gullet--
diseases affecting, description, symptoms, and treatment, 17-22
wounds and injuries, cause and treatment, 22
Gut tie, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 41
_HÊmatopinus eurysternus_ and _H. vituli_,
description and treatment, 508
_HÊmonchus contortus_, description and treatment, 519
Hair balls, cause, 29
Hair, description, 320
Harbaugh, W. H.--
chapter on "Diseases of the heart, blood vessels,
and lymphatics", 73-86
chapter on "Diseases of the nervous system", 101-112
Haw, inflammation and enlargement, description and treatment, 354
Health, public, relation of actinomycosis, 447
Heart--
blood vessels and lymphatics, chapter by W. H. Harbaugh, 73-86
description, 73
dilation and hypertrophy, description, 82
examination of, 77
fatty degeneration, description, 82
injury by foreign bodies, description, symptoms, and treatment, 78
misplacement, description, 83
palpitation, description, 78
rupture, description, 82
valves, diseases affecting, symptoms and treatment, 82
Heat prostration, symptoms and treatment, 108
Heaves, description and treatment, 98
Heel, ulcerations, causes and treatment, 337
Hemaglobinuria or hematuria, description, symptoms, and treatment, 119
Hematodes, fungus, description, 316
Hemoptysis, description and treatment, 99
Hemorrhage--
danger in castration of cattle, 300
treatment, 83
Hemorrhagic septicemia, causes, symptoms, etc, 397-401
Hepatitis, symptoms and treatment, 45
Hernia--
bowel, description and treatment, 38
danger in castration of cattle, 300
peritoneal, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 41
rennet, description and treatment, 38
rumen, description and cause, 37
stomach, description and treatment, 38
umbilical, description, causes, and treatment, 41, 252
uterus, cause and treatment, 162
ventral, description and causes, 37
Hides, injury by cattle ticks, 484
Hip point, fracture, causes and treatment, 280
Hip sprain, cause and treatment, 270
Hock--
fracture below, description and treatment, 282
fracture, treatment, 281
Hollow horn, imaginary disease, 27
Hoof--
deformities, causes and treatment, 338
loss, causes and treatment, 336
split, description and treatment, 338
wall, fissure affecting, description and treatment, 338
wounds and pricks, treatment, 338
Horns, fracture, description and treatment, 277
Horses--
dose of vaccine against anthrax, 457
ear tick, note, 518
Hoven, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 22
Hydatids--
and flukes affecting the lungs of animals, 526
description and treatment, 526
Hydrocephalus, description and treatment, 179
Hydrophobia. _See_ Rabies.
Hydrothorax, description and treatment, 99
Hygiene, pregnant cow, 160
Hygromata, description and treatment, 317
Hyperplasia, reference, 303
Hypertrophy--
description, 128
heart, with dilation, description, 82
_Hypoderma bovis_, new warble fly, 507
_Hypoderma lineata_, warble fly, description, 507
Illinois, foot-and-mouth disease, 388
Immunization, northern cattle against Texas fever, manner, 500
Impetigo, description, causes, and treatment, 327
Incised wounds, description and treatment, 295
Incontinence, urine, cause and treatment, 130
Incubation period of infectious diseases, 362
Indiana, foot-and-mouth disease, 388
Indigestion--
calves, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 32, 253
causes, symptoms, and treatment, 26, 29, 31
Induration--
tongue. _See_ Actinomycosis.
womb mouth, description and treatment, 176
Infectious aphtha. _See_ Foot-and-mouth disease.
Infectious catarrhal conjunctivitis, symptoms,
treatment, and prevention, 345
Infectious catarrhal fever, description, symptoms,
and treatment, 469-472
Infectious diseases--
cattle, chapter by John R. Mohler, 358-511
classification of symptoms and lesions, 359
general discussion, 358
incubation periods, 362
treatment, discussion, 362
Infectious ophthalmia, or infectious catarrhal conjunctivitis, 345
Inflammation--
brain and its membranes, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 103
contagious, of the udder, description, prevention,
and treatment, 237
ear, symptoms and treatment, 355
haw, description and treatment, 354
kidneys, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 123
liver, symptoms and treatment, 45
mucous membrane of mouth, symptoms and treatment, 17
navel veins, description, symptoms, and treatment, 249
parotid gland, symptoms and treatment, 18
pyemic and septicemic, of joints of calves,
symptoms and treatment, 251
sheath and penis from bruising, prevention and treatment, 155
sheath, causes and treatment, 153
spleen, description, 45
testicles, description and treatment, 152
traumatic, of the stomach, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 34
udder, description, symptoms, and treatment, 234
urachus, causes and treatment, 248
urethra, description and treatment, 156
vagina, causes and treatment, 223
veins, description and treatment, 86
womb, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 224
Inflammatory diseases, skin, description, symptoms,
and treatment, 320-334
Inhalation of medicines, manner, 10
Inoculation, use against hemorrhagic septicemia, 401
Intercostal muscles, rheumatism affecting,
description and treatment, 100
Interdigital fibroma, description and treatment, 338
Intestinal parasites, description and treatment, 523
Intestines, roundworms affecting, kind and treatment, 532
Intussusception, causes, symptoms, post-mortem
appearance, and treatment, 35
Invagination, cause of obstruction of bowels,
symptoms, and treatment, 35
Inversion--
eyelashes, treatment, 350
eyelid, description and treatment, 350
Iodin, tincture, use in punctured wounds, 297
Iowa, foot-and-mouth disease, 388
Iris, description, 341
Italy, foot-and-mouth disease, 385
Itch, scab, mites, and mange, description and treatment, 513
Itching, cause and treatment, 322
Japan, foot-and-mouth disease, 386
Jaundice, description, symptoms and treatment, 44
Jaw--
big, lump, or lumpy, _See_ Actinomycosis.
lower, fracture, cause and treatment, 278
poverty, caused by twisted wireworms, 520
Jawbones, actinomycosis affecting, description and treatment, 440-449
Jensen, formula for protection of cattle from flies, 503
Joint-ill, description, symptoms, and treatment, 251
Kansas, foot-and-mouth disease, 388
Kelis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 331
Kentucky, foot-and-mouth disease, 388
Keratitis, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 345
Kidney--
ox, description, 117
parasites affecting, discussion, 127
stone in, description and treatment, 139
Kidneys--
inflammation, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 123
tumors affecting, description, 128
Knee--
fracture below, description and treatment, 282
fracture, description and treatment, 281
tumors, description and treatment, 317
Knotting and twisting of bowels, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 35
Labor pains before relaxation of passages, 175
Lacerated wounds, description and treatment, 298
Laceration, eyelid, cause and treatment, 351
Lacerations--
and ruptures of the vagina, description and treatment, 219
ear, cause and treatment, 357
Lacrimal gland of the eye, description, 343
Lameness, symptom of foot-and-mouth disease, 383
Laminitis, description, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 335
Laryngitis, cause and treatment, 93
Laurel poisoning, description and treatment, 65
Law, James--
chapter on "Diseases following parturition", 214-246
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