Chapter V: Section IV: The Organs of Circulation

SEMIOLOGY OF THE ORGANS OF CIRCULATION 370

I. CARDIAC ANOMALIES 374
Ectopia of the heart 374

II. PERICARDITIS 375
Exudative pericarditis due to foreign bodies 376
Chronic pericarditis 389
Pseudo-pericarditis 390

III. ENDOCARDITIS 394

IV. DISEASES OF BLOOD-VESSELS 396
Phlebitis 396
Accidental phlebitis 396
Internal infectious phlebitis (Utero-ovarian
phlebitis) 398
Umbilical phlebitis of new-born animals 399
Umbilical phlebitis or omphalo-phlebitis 402

V. DISEASES OF THE BLOOD 406
Septicæmia of new-born animals 406
Takosis: a contagious disease of goats 412
Blood poisoning (Malignant œdema) in sheep and lambs in
New Zealand 415
Piroplasmosis 416
Bovine piroplasmosis 416
Bovine piroplasmosis in France 424
Ovine piroplasmosis 425
Diseases produced by trypanosomata 426
Louping-ill 429
Suggested measures for prevention 435
Braxy 435
Bilharziosis in cattle and sheep 439
Heat stroke—Over-exertion 442

VI. DISEASES OF THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM 444
The lymphogenic diathesis 448
Caseous lymphadenitis of the sheep 453
Goitre in calves and lambs 453

SECTION V.
NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Cerebral congestion 456
Meningitis 456
Encephalitis 458
Cerebral Tumours 459
Insolation 460
Post-partum paralysis—Milk fever—Mammary
toxæmia—Parturient apoplexy—Dropping after calving 461
Cœnurosis (Gid, sturdy, turn-sick) 467
“Trembling,” or Lumbar prurigo, in sheep 475