Special report on diseases of cattle

Chapter 67

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Spinal cord-- congestion, description, symptom, and treatment, 110 description, 102 injuries, description, 109

Spleen-- diseases, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 44-45 inflammation, description, 45

Splenetic fever. _See_ Texas fever.

Splenitis, description, 45

Split hoof, description and treatment, 338

Sporadic-- aphthae, reference, 532 stomatitis aphthosa, reference, 532

Sprain-- fetlock, causes and treatment, 269 hip, cause and treatment, 270 shoulder joint, causes and treatment, 269

Sprains, description and treatment, 268

Squinting, description, 349

Stable flies (_Stomoxys calcitrans_), affecting cattle, 503

Stabling, value against stomach worms, 521-522

Staggers, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 103, 529

_Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus_ and _S. pyogenes citreus_, bacteria of abscess, 237

Staphyloma, description, symptoms, and treatment, 348

Sterility, causes, 151

Stings-- venomous. _See_ Snake bites. wasps and bees, description and treatment, 71

Stomach-- diseases affecting, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 22-34 fourth, affected with hernia, description and treatment, 38 hair balls in, 29 parasites affecting, treatment, 519, 524, 529 roundworms affecting, 524 traumatic inflammation, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 34 worm-- encysted, description and treatment, 523 sanitary measures for suppression, 521-522 worms, different kinds affecting cattle, 519

Stomatitis-- cause, symptoms, and treatment, 17 characteristic differences from foot-and-mouth disease, 391-393 mycotic. _See_ Mycotic stomatitis. necrotic, description, symptoms, treatment, etc., 464-469

_Stomoxys calcitrans_ affecting cattle, 503

Stone-- bladder, obstruction to parturition, 178 bladder, symptoms and treatment, 142 description and causes, 130 effect of different feeds, 132-134 kidney, description and treatment, 139

Strabismus, description, 349

Straw, breeding place of stable fly, 503

_Streptococcus pyogenes_, bacteria of abscess, 237

String, navel, constricting member of fetus, description, 179

Stringy milk, cause and treatment, 242

_Strongylus micrurus_, parasite of verminous bronchitis, 100

Struma, cause, description, symptoms, and treatment, 310

Strychnin poisoning, description and treatment, 62

Sudorific glands, location and use, 321

Sugar in urine, description, 123

Sunstroke, symptoms and treatment, 108

Suppression, milk, cause and treatment, 241

Surfeit, description, causes, and treatment, 324

Surgery, discussion, 289

Surgical operations-- asepsis, importance, 289 chapter by William Dickson and William H. Lowe, 289-302 manner of securing the animals during, 290 uses of anesthesia, 289

Swamp lands, drainage as measure against fluke disease, 527

Sweat glands, location and use, 322

Sweden, foot-and-mouth disease, 386

Swelling of calf with gas, cause and treatment, 181

Switzerland, foot-and-mouth disease, 385

Symptomatic anthrax. _See_ Blackleg.

_TÊnia saginatÊ_, tapeworm cysts, presence in cattle, 529

Tail, wolf in, imaginary disease, 27

Tapeworm cysts, source of injury to cattle, 529

Tapeworms-- adult, of small intestine, species and remedy, 523 cysts in muscles of cattle, 529 cysts of liver, 527

Tarsus, fracture, description and treatment, 281

Teats-- blocked by calculus, treatment, 243 blocked by concretion of casein, cause and treatment, 243 blocked by warty and other growth inside, description and treatment, 244 chapped, cause and treatment, 243 opening in the side, description and treatment, 245 scabby, treatment, 243 warts affecting, treatment, 243

Teeth-- caries, description, 16 irregularities, cause and treatment, 16

Temperature-- how to examine, 90 limits for dipping bath, 490

Test, tuberculin. _See_ Tuberculin test.

Testicles, congestion and inflammation, description and treatment, 152

Tetanus-- danger in castration of cattle, 300 reference, 405

Texas fever-- description, symptoms, prevention, etc, 475-501 immunization of northern cattle, 495 infection carried by the cattle tick (_Margaropus annulatus_), 480 injurious effect of ticks, 482 loss occasioned by cattle ticks, 483 methods of eradication, 487-500 nature of the disease, 476 period of incubation of ticks, 486 prevention, 487 quarantine regulations, 495 symptoms and pathological changes after death, 478-480 tick eradication, plan of work, 487

Threadworms in abdominal cavity of cattle, 529

Throat, sore, symptoms, causes, and treatment, 17

Thrombosis, description and symptoms, 85

Thrush-- calf, description and treatment, 263 parasite (_Saccharomyces albicans_), cause, 263

Ticks-- cattle, time required to kill, 488 ear, 518 injury to cattle hides, 484 parasites of cattle, note, 502 _See also_ Cattle tick; Texas fever.

_Tilletia caries_ in wheat, effect on cattle, 13

_Tinea favosa_, description, symptoms, and treatment, 332

_Tinea tonsurans_, description, symptoms, and treatment, 332

Tracheotomy, description, 294

Traumatic inflammation of the stomach, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 34

Trichiasis, treatment, 350

_Trichodectes scalaris_ (red louse), description and treatment, 513

_Trichophyton tonsurans_, fungus causing _Tinea tonsurans_, 332

Trumbower, M. R.-- chapter on "Diseases of the ear", 353-357 chapter on "Diseases of the eye and its appendages", 340-354 chapter on "Diseases of the foot", 335-339 chapter on "Diseases of the skin", 320-334

_Trypanosoma brucei_, cause of nagana, or tsetse-fly disease, 500

Tsetse-fly disease, description, symptoms, and treatment, 500

Tuberculin test-- description and history, 417 harmless to healthy animals, 426 summary of directions for making, 427

_Tuberculosis_-- bovine, and public health, 430 cause and nature of disease, 411 occurrence, 407 statistics of tests in United States, 410 symptoms and diagnosis, 416-417 transmissibility of human and bovine, 432 treatment, 428

Tumor-- bony, description and treatment, 314 chrondroma, description and treatment, 314 fibroma, description and treatment, 311 hairy, on eyeball, description and treatment, 349 lipoma, description and treatment, 314 sarcoma, description and treatment, 315

Tumors-- brain, description, 112 calf, description and treatment, 181 cattle, chapter by John R. Mohler, 303-319 definition and description, 303 description, 303, 305, 307 description of kinds, 309 diagnosis, 308 eyelid, description and treatment, 350 general treatment, 309 kidney, description, 128 malignant and benign, description, 306 orbit, cause and treatment, 353 pharynx, description and treatment, 19

Twisted stomach worms, description and treatment, 519-523

Twisting-- and knotting of the bowels, causes, symptoms, post-mortem appearance, and treatment, 35 of the neck of the womb, description and treatment, 176

Tympanites-- acute, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 22 chronic, causes and treatment, 25

Udder-- congestion, description and treatment, 233 contagious inflammation affecting, description, prevention, and treatment, 237 inflammation, description, symptoms, and treatment, 234

Ulceration, heel, causes and treatment, 337

Ulcerative stomatitis. _See_ Necrotic stomatitis.

Ulcers-- calves. _See_ Necrotic stomatitis. cornea, cause, symptoms, and treatment, 347 penis, cause and treatment, 157

Umbilical hernia-- description, causes, and treatment, 39 symptoms and treatment, 252

Umbilical phlebitis, description, causes, and treatment, 249

Urachus-- inflammation, causes and treatment, 248 persistent, description and treatment, 248

Ureteral calculi, description and treatment, 139

Urethra, inflammation affecting, description and treatment, 156

Urethral calculus, symptoms and treatment, 142

Urinary calculi-- classification, 138 description and causes, 130, 137 effect of different feeds, 133

Urinary disorders, symptoms, 118

Urinary organs-- diseases, chapter by James Law, 113-146 functions, 113

Urine-- albumin in, description and treatment, 121 amount passed daily, 115 analyses under different rations, 114 bloody, caused by blood flukes, 526 bloody, description, symptoms, and treatment, 119 cow, analysis, 114 discharged through navel, description and treatment, 248 excessive secretion, cause and treatment, 118 incontinence, cause and treatment, 130 ox, analysis, 115 retention, effect, cause, and treatment, 128 sugar in, description, 123

Urticaria, description, causes and treatment, 124

Uruguay, foot-and-mouth disease, 386

Uterus-- hernia affecting, cause and treatment, 162 polypus affecting, description and treatment, 157

Vaccination, disadvantages in use against anthrax, 457

Vaccine-- anthrax, care and use, 457 blackleg, free distribution, note, 463 preparation and use against hemorrhagic septicemia, 395

Vagina-- clots of blood on walls, description and treatment, 220 inflammation, causes and treatment, 223 lacerations and rupture, description and treatment, 219 polypus affecting, description and treatment, 157

_VaginÊ prolapsus_, description and treatment, 162

Vaginal walls, affected with coagulated blood after calving, treatment, 179

Vaginitis, causes and treatment, 223

Valves, heart, diseases affecting, symptoms and treatment, 80

Variola, description, symptoms, and treatment, 438

Vegetable-- acids, poisonous, description and treatment, 58 poisons-- note, 61 uses as medicine, description, symptoms, and treatment, 61-69

Veins-- inflammation, description and treatment, 86 wounds, description and treatment, 83

Venereal desire, diminution or loss, cause, prevention, and treatment, 149

Venereal excess, cause and treatment, 148

Venomous stings. _See_ Snake bites.

Ventral hernia, description and causes, 37

Verminous bronchitis-- description, symptoms, and prevention, 100 _parasites_ causing, 100

Vermont, foot-and-mouth disease, 387

Verruca, description, cause, and treatment, 331

Vertebra, fracture, description, and treatment, 279

Vesical calculus, symptoms and treatment, 142

Vesicular eruption of genital organs, description, symptoms, and treatment, 401

Vesicular exanthema, symptoms and treatment, 401

Veterinarians, views on foot-and-mouth disease in man, 395

Virginia, foot-and-mouth disease, 388

Vitreous humor of the eye, description, 342

Vomiting, symptoms, cause, and treatment, 27

Wall, hoof, fissure, description and treatment, 338

Warble fly-- damages, estimate, 510 European species, appearance in United States, 510

Warbles-- description and treatment, 507 penetration of skins of cattle, 508 reference, 333

Warts-- description, causes, and treatment, 312, 331 penis, treatment, 156 teats, treatment, 243

Washington, foot-and-mouth disease, 388

Wasp stings, description and treatment, 71

Water-- blisters, symptoms and treatment, 328 cold, drinking, a cause of indigestion, symptoms and treatment, 33 head of calf, description and treatment, 179

Weather, relation to occurrence of mycotic stomatitis, 392

Wens, description and treatment, 330

West Virginia, foot-and-mouth disease, 388

Wisconsin, foot-and-mouth disease, 388

Withers, casting, cause and treatment, 215

Wolf in the tail, imaginary disease, 27

Womb-- bleeding from, description, symptoms, and treatment, 214 dropsy, description and treatment, 162 eversion, cause and treatment, 215 fetus developing outside, description and treatment, 163 inflammation, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 224 mouth, induration, description and treatment, 176 rupture, cause and treatment, 219 twisting of neck, description and treatment, 176

Wooden tongue. _See_ Actinomycosis.

Wood-ill, description, symptoms, and treatment, 119

Worm-- encysted stomach, description and treatment, 523 eye, description and treatment, 349

Worms-- bladder, description, 528 lung, of cattle, description and treatment, 530 screw, description and remedies, 506 thread, in abdominal cavity of cattle, 529 twisted stomach, description and treatment, 519-520

Wounds-- abdomen, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 43 arteries and veins, description and treatment, 83 contused and lacerated, description and treatment, 298 contusions of the lips and snake bites of mouth, description and treatment, 14 danger of infection from foot-and-mouth disease, 394 drainage, necessity, 298 gullet, description and treatment, 22 healing, treatment and dressing, description, 298 hoof, treatment, 338 incised-- description and treatment, 295 punctured, and lacerated, description and treatment, 295-299 mouth, snake bites and contusions of lips, treatment, 14 penis, cause and treatment, 156 skin, kinds, description, and treatment, 333-334 treatment, summary of care after dressing, 298

Yellows, description, symptoms, and treatment, 44

Zinc poisoning, description and treatment, 57

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