Lanterna Rally

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781230034812

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... implanted by injecting the substance, diluted with water, into the abdominal cavity. At the expiration of seven weeks there were produced in the animal specific ulcers of the nose, accompanied by a profuse purulent discharge from that organ, lymphangitis of the corresponding lymphatic vessels, and lymphadenitis of the laryngeal glands, forming, in a word, the typical clinical picture of acute glanders. There were found also at the autopsy numerous specific nodules in the peritoneum, spleen, lungs, and various muscles. It has also been determined that the virus of glanders, in the form of a flared infectious material, may be found not only in the specific products of disease (the secretion from the nose, the solid and fluid contents of the nodules and ulcers), but also in the blood' (Viborg, Coleman, Hering, Ohauveau), and in the secretions and excretion-s of the diseased body, for example, the tears, saliva, sweat, urine, and milk. The communication of the morbid poison by means of external media, especially the harness, has been frequently observed. Some cases are also known in which the disease was communicated by the act of coitus, by suckling, by hereditary transmission, and finally, by the absorption. of the poison together with the food. The nasal discharge, when taken into the stomach with the food, appears, however, to be less capable of producing infection than are the exhalations from the lungs (Gerlach). All varieties of glanders, both acute and chronic, are in an 'It is also true, however, that attempts to inoculate the disease by means of the blood are in many instances unsuccessful (Hering, Gerlaoh). I once injected beneath the skin of a rabbit several grammes of fresh, warm blood, taken from a glandered horse...