. Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swine. Veterinary medicine. oS8 DISEASES OP THE KIDNEYS. Symptoms. Suppurative nephritis is characterised by fever, loss of appetite, arrest of rumination, and frequent attempts to urinate. These attempts are painful, are accompanied by groaning, and end in the passage of an insignificant quantity of blood-stained and purulent urine. Palpation, more especially palpation of the right flank, percussion over the region of the lohis, and examination of the kidneys through the rectum are painful. Wasting is rapid. If the suppurative nephritis develops rapidly,
. Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swine. Veterinary medicine. oS8 DISEASES OP THE KIDNEYS. Symptoms. Suppurative nephritis is characterised by fever, loss of appetite, arrest of rumination, and frequent attempts to urinate. These attempts are painful, are accompanied by groaning, and end in the passage of an insignificant quantity of blood-stained and purulent urine. Palpation, more especially palpation of the right flank, percussion over the region of the lohis, and examination of the kidneys through the rectum are painful. Wasting is rapid. If the suppurative nephritis develops rapidly, and particularly if it be accompanied by perinephritis, the patients refuse to rise and appear to be suffering from paraplegia, although not really so, both sensation and motor power persisting in a greater or less degree. Probably the condi- tion is accompanied by reflex pain and irritation of the nerve-trunks of the lumbo-pubic plexus. On the other hand, when suppurative nephritis tends to develop slo^Yly and assume a chronic form, lesions of pyo-nephrosis gradually. Fig. 231.—Leaf lard around kidney of pig. develof), and are identical in appearance with those of hydro-nephrosis, except that the ureters, the pelvis and the dilatations corresponding to the lobules, are filled with pus. Diagnosis. The diagnosis is not very difficult. The urinary trouble and the composition of the urine itself always arouse suspicion. The diagnosis is confirmed l)y careful and methodical examination per rectum ,- the inflammation of the fatty tissue surrounding the kidney can usually be detected. Prognosis. The prognosis is extremely grave, and almost always fatal, particularly in cases of diffuse nephritis. Treatment. No curative treatment can be absolutely relied on. Treatment, if attempted, is limited to the methods suggested for pyelo- nephritis. Mucilaginous, emollient, and diuretic drinks, and daily doses of 2 to 3 drachms of benzoate of soda given in the drinking water, cause some imjj
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