Title: Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals
Identifier: cu31924000012645 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hutyra, Ferenc, 1860-1934; Marek, József, 1868- joint author; Mohler, John R. (John Robbins), b. 1875, ed; Eichhorn, Adolph, 1875- joint ed
Subjects: Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Chicago, A. Eger
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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454 Tetanus. reflex irritability is less marked than in the horse. Dreymann and Shadow each observed a case with marked upward curve of the vertebral column (emprosthotonus); Balog observed marked orthotonus. In cows a suppurative inflammation of the uterus occurs frequently, which serves as the basic point of the disease. In sheep and in goats opisthotonus usually occurs; it is pronounced when the animals are standing, but more so after they have fallen to the ground. Moderate bloating is also noted frequently. The lockjaw of lambs (tetanus agnorum) which occurs as a rule from a navel infection and is not infrequently observed as a stable enzootic, begins with lassitude and sluggish indis- position. Later movement becomes stiff and finally impossible; the animals hold the head to one side or backwards, curve the back upwards, suckle with difficulty or are unable to do so, and
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Mg. 72. Tetanus. Generalized muscular spasms in a dog. finally die with symptoms of suffocation. The disease is often associated with an acute intestinal inflammation with profuse diarrhea. In hogs, which usually are affected with generalized tetanus, trismus attains a marked degree (Jakab observed the disease in this form among 16 pigs of one drove); upward or downward curvature of the vertebral column also occurs frequently. Tetanus is not common in dogs—is usually localized and manifests itself especially in young dogs by transitory trismus. In severe cases one is struck by the characteristic facial distor- tion, the forehead being wrinkled in a sagittal direction, by the rigid erect position and approximation of the ears, the external strabismus of the eyes and the grinding of the teeth as well as the rigidly spread extremities; the vertebral column is straight or curved downwards (Fig. 72).

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