This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...apparent, would lead one to accept a real recovery from the disease. Carre and Vallee even saw cases which went along for eight months without presenting fever. Such recoveries, however, are more apparent than real, as the urine still shows albumen upon analysis and the conjunctiva is edematous. Blood examination ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...apparent, would lead one to accept a real recovery from the disease. Carre and Vallee even saw cases which went along for eight months without presenting fever. Such recoveries, however, are more apparent than real, as the urine still shows albumen upon analysis and the conjunctiva is edematous. Blood examination reveals a marked anemia. The slightest work causes the animals to blow, rwhile the heart beats become fast. The animals sweat abundantly and sometimes drop in an exhausted condition. In this form the duration of the disease varies very greatly, ranging from a few weeks to several months. The chronic type is characterized by the symptoms of an extreme anemia. The patients become soft, lazy, the appetite indifferent and capricious, the coat rough and staring, while the hair of tail and mane can be pulled out with ease. The mucosa are pale and the temperature is most frequently normal; there are intermittent attacks of fever, but they are not frequent. The animals are soft and weak. The pulse is soft, frequent, unequal and the artery is flabby. Sometimes a transitory diarrhea is observed. Edema of the dependant parts is seen and the gait is wabbly, stumbling, and arising is difiicult. The urine is abundant and more often contains albumen. The anemia is progressive, the blood coagulating poorly, forming a soft small clot. Sometimes, even it is difficult to check hemorrhage in patients. After more or less frequent remissions the animals die, either in one of the exacerbations or succumb to the final stage of anemia. Changes in the blood are never absent and pertain to both plasma and formed elements. The plasma is but very little coagulable, it is over..colored, of a deep yellow or greenish tint, very often dichroic, especially so in the acute...
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