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The same general plan of after-care is necessary. Recovery, however, does not require so much time ordinarily, yet punctures of the sheath occasioned by nails or other small implements make for long drawn out cases of infective synovitis. Luxation of the Fetlock Joint. Etiology and Occurrence.
There is a like discrepancy in the views on the possibility of its diffusion by drinking water, on the influence of conditions of soil, on the question whether the dejecta contain the poison or not, and on the duration of the incubation period. No progress was possible in combating the disease until these root questions of the etiology of cholera are decided.
The morbid changes in the joints present a remarkable combination of atrophy and degeneration on the one hand and overgrowth on the other, indicating a profound disturbance of nutrition in the joint structures. The nature of this disturbance and its etiology are imperfectly known.
Reduction occurs spontaneously, as a rule, and the subjects are not occasioned much distress if they are kept quiet for a few days. Chronic Gonitis. Etiology and Occurrence. Chronic inflammation of the stifle joint is met with following acute synovitis due to strains and concussion.
Tenotomy is not of practical benefit unless ample time is allowed for regeneration of divided tendinous tissue. Fracture and Luxation of the Carpal Bones. Etiology and Occurrence. Luxations of the carpal joint are of rare occurrence, and very few cases of this kind are on record.
Unless the patient is in hospital with skilled assistance available, tracheotomy is the safer of the two procedures. Tetanus is a disease resulting from infection of a wound by a specific micro-organism, the bacillus tetani, and characterised by increased reflex excitability, hypertonus, and spasm of one or more groups of voluntary muscles. Etiology and Morbid Anatomy.
Blumenthal presented to the New York Pathological Society an ovum within which the fetus was under going intrauterine decapitation. Buchanan describes a case illustrative of the etiology of spontaneous amputation of limbs in utero Nebinger reports a case of abortion, showing commencing amputation of the left thigh from being encircled by the funis.
At times those who read these old books from certain modern standpoints are surprised to find such noteworthy differences between writers on medicine, who are separated sometimes only by a generation, and sometimes by not more than a century, in what regards the comparative amount of space given to pathology, etiology, and therapeutics.
These new studies are based on the same principles which guided me in my researches on wine, vinegar, and the silkworm disease principles, the applications of which are practically unlimited. The etiology of contagious diseases may, perhaps, receive from them an unexpected light.
Möller states that moderate exercise or work stimulates the establishment of collateral circulation. Massage per rectum is condemned as dangerous by Cadiot. Fracture of the Patella. Etiology and Occurrence. Patellar fractures are rarely met with in the horse but may be caused by falls and heavy contusions. Violent muscular contraction, it is said, may also bring about the same condition.
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