Author : William Williams
Release : 2009-08
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The Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery write by William Williams. This book was released on 2009-08. The Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER HI. SYMPTOMS OF INFLAMMATION. GENERAL SYMPTOMS OF INFLAMMATION?INFLAMMATORY APPEARANCES OF THE BLOOD TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATION?TREATMENT OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATION. The symptoms of inflammation are of two kinds, namely, local and constitutional. The first-named have been already described. The constitutional symptoms are those indicative of sympathetic, symptomatic, or inflammatory fever, and are of the greatest importance, indicating the nature of the disease when the inflammation exists in an internal organ removed from sight or touch, and often guiding the method of treatment. There are some inflammations that are unattended by any appreciable signs of fever; others, again, by symptoms that are so insignificant as to pass unobserved; but when an inflammation is sufficiently extensive, the general system is disturbed by fever (pyrexia). Prominent amongst the symptoms of inflammatory fever are rigors (shiverings), elevation of internal temperature, and debility; followed by, or alternating with, increased heat of skin, increased frequency, ierhaps force, and often hardness of the pulse, with disturbance or derangement of the natural functions of the animal body. The rigors are sometimes severe, or amounting only to mere chilliness, a slight staring of the coat being the only sign; but they are always important, as they mark the outset of the febrile disturbance, and it is worth oliserving that rigors more commonly attend the commencement of spontaneous inflammation than of inflammation caused by external injuries. They are of very frequent occurrence in horses that present no signs of local disease; they are dull, offtheir feed, seemingly little wrong or amiss, but the coat is harsh and staring, and actual shivering is easily induced. An animal in such a state ma...