. Dairy stock; its selection, diseases, and produce, with a description of the Brittany breed. Cows; Cattle. 70 EHEUMATISM. dency for the serous membranes in large cavities to become inflamed. The pleura, but more particularly the serous membranes covering the inside and outside of the heart, become afi'ected, and it is usually from heart disease that a rheumatic animal is disabled or killed. In chronic rheumatism one of the joints becomes chiefly affected, and is the seat of structural changes. This is seen in young animals not unfrequently, but also in milk cows. Sometimes a tendency to scro
. Dairy stock; its selection, diseases, and produce, with a description of the Brittany breed. Cows; Cattle. 70 EHEUMATISM. dency for the serous membranes in large cavities to become inflamed. The pleura, but more particularly the serous membranes covering the inside and outside of the heart, become afi'ected, and it is usually from heart disease that a rheumatic animal is disabled or killed. In chronic rheumatism one of the joints becomes chiefly affected, and is the seat of structural changes. This is seen in young animals not unfrequently, but also in milk cows. Sometimes a tendency to scrophula encourages a deposit of lymph, which has a tendency to invade the bone and remain un- organized, sometimes softening so that abscesses form. The knee joint is most frequently affected with this form of disease, and may assume enormous dimensions, as seen from the annexed woodcut, which represents only the skeleton of the joint, the soft tissues having been removed by maceration. Treatment in the acute form consists in the use of pm^gatives and salines—nitre, liquor ammo- nite acetatis, sulphate of soda in small and oft repeated doses, besides vegetable diuretics, such as colchicum and disjitahs, constitute the internal remedies. The. Fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gamgee, John, 1831-1894. Edinburgh, T. C. Jack; [etc. , etc. ]
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