DISEASES OF
CATTLE, SHEEP, GOATS AND SWINE
By
G. MOUSSU
PROFESSOR AT THE VETERINARY COLLEGE OF ALFORT; DOCTOR OF MEDICINE;
DOCTOR OF SCIENCE, ETC.
AND
JNO. A. W. DOLLAR, M. R. C. V. S., F. R. S. E., M. R. I.
PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS; VICE-PRESIDENT OF
THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE
CENTRAL SOCIETY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE OF PARIS; ASSOCIATE OF THE
SOCIETY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE OF BRABANT (BELGIUM); LIFE MEMBER OF
ROYAL ITALIAN SOCIETY OF HYGIENE, ETC.
AMERICAN VETERINARY PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO
PUBLISHER
1920
(All Rights Reserved)
PREFACE.
No apology seems called for in presenting to English-speaking veterinary
surgeons and students a treatise on the diseases of cattle. To those
entrusted with the onerous task of preventing or curing disease in
cattle, sheep, and swine the scantiness of permanent literature dealing
with the subject must always have proved a matter of some embarrassment,
while to teachers and students alike the want of a concise and modern
textbook has long been a difficulty of the first order. It is hoped that
the present volume may go some way towards remedying this state of
affairs.
As on previous occasions, the writer has freely availed himself of
foreign sources of information. Two years ago he purchased the literary
rights in Professor Moussu’s “Maladies du Bétail,” which had even then
attained an European reputation, and which forms the backbone of the
present volume. To obtain further information, the more important German
treatises have been laid under contribution, while all accessible
English, American, and Colonial literature of recent date has been
referred to. (The references practically extend up to the moment of
writing—the latest being June, 1905.) In this way the work may in some
degree claim to have assumed an international character. The extent of
the additions is indicated by an increase in the number of illustrations
of 140, and of the text of nearly 50 per cent.
Professor McQueen has performed the greatly-valued service of reading
proof sheets and advising the writer as the book passed through the
press.
To Dr. Salmon, of the United States Department of Agriculture, special
thanks are due for his generous permission to quote from the annual
reports of that body.
Other acknowledgments will be found in the text.
Once again the writer, who on this occasion chances also to be the
President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, appeals for
lenient judgment on work performed under no common stress of duties,
professional and political.
JNO. A. W. DOLLAR.
56, NEW BOND STREET,
LONDON, ENGLAND,
_June, 1905_.
CONTENTS.
SECTION I.
DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF LOCOMOTION.
CHAP. PAGE
METHODS OF EXAMINATION 1
I. DISEASES OF BONES 3
GENERAL DISEASES 4
Rachitis 4
Osseous Cachexia 7
LOCAL AFFECTIONS 20
Fractures 20
Fractures of the horns 21
Detachment of the horns 23
Fissuring of the horns 24
Fractures of the horns 25
EXOSTOSES 27
Spavin in the ox 27
Ring-bone 28
Suppurating ostitis 29
Bone tumours 30
II. DISEASES OF THE FOOT 31
Congestion of the Claws 31
Contusions of the sole 31
Laminitis 32
Sand crack 34
Pricks and stabs in shoeing 36
Picked-up nails, etc. (“Gathered nail”) 37
Inflammation of the interdigital space (Condylomata) 38
Canker 40
Grease 41
Panaritium—Felon—Whitlow 41
Foot rot 43
III. DISEASES OF THE SYNOVIAL MEMBRANES AND OF THE ARTICULATIONS 45
I. SYNOVIAL MEMBRANES AND ARTICULATIONS 45
Synovitis 45
Inflammation of the patellar synovial capsule 45
Distension of the synovial capsule of the hock joint 46
Distension of tendon sheaths in the hock region 46
Distension of the synovial capsule of the knee joint 47
Distension of the synovial capsule of the fetlock
joint 48
Distension of tendon sheaths 48
Distension of tendon sheaths in the region of the knee 49
Distension of the bursal sheath of the flexor tendons 49
Traumatic synovitis—“Open synovitis” 49
Traumatic tendinous synovitis 50
Traumatic articular synovitis—Traumatic
arthritis—“Open arthritis” 51
II. STRAINS OF JOINTS 52
Strain of the shoulder 52
Strain of the knee 53
Strain of the fetlock 54
Strain of the stifle joint 54
Strain of the hock joint 55
III. LUXATION OF JOINTS 56
Luxation of the femur 56
Luxation of the patella 58
Luxation of the femoro-tibial articulation 61
Luxation of the scapulo-humeral joint 63
IV. HYGROMAS 64
Hygroma of the knee 65
Hygroma of the haunch 67
Hygroma of the trochanter of the femur 67
Hygroma of the stifle 67
Hygroma of the point of the hock 68
Hygroma of the point of the sternum 69
IV. DISEASES OF MUSCLES AND TENDONS 70
Rupture of the external ischio-tibial muscle (Biceps
femoris) 70
Rupture of the flexor metatarsi 72
PARASITIC DISEASES OF MUSCLES 73
Cysticercus disease of the pig 73
Beef measles 79
Trichiniasis—Trichinosis 84
V. RHEUMATISM 89
Articular rheumatism 89
Muscular rheumatism 92
INFECTIOUS FORMS OF RHEUMATISM OR PSEUDO-RHEUMATISM 94
Infectious rheumatism in young animals 94
Infectious pseudo-rheumatism in adults 99
Scurvy—Scorbutus 104