The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-24

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The symptoms develop in rather
regular manner and SO 1t Is Impossi-
BILE to divide the disease into stages.
The first stage begins'with more or
less dulness and inappetenance and is
accompanied by fever The tempera-
ture may not be more than 103 degrees
f., or it il may lie as high as 100 de-
grees to l07 degrees +. This stage Is
characterized, at first by dryness and
warmth OF the muzzle, by dry, hot
mouth and by evidence of discomfort
OF the mouth as shown by slow, care
full chewing aud by some awkwardness
in grasping food, and by grinding the
teeth. II an effort Is made to examine
the mouth It is held tightly closed.
Very soon, the mouth becomes unduly
moist from the increased secretion of
both mucous and saliva. AS the ten
derness and pain increases, the animal
works the tongue and cheeks and
makes sucking, clicking or smacking
sound. There is considerable accu-
mutation Of saliva in the mouth, some
collection OF froth about the lips and
strings of sticky saliva may descend
from the mouth. The condition is
more striking, at a somewhat later
period of the disease. II soon be-
comes apparent that it is painful for
the animal TO take up food with the
tongue and lips and if hard solid food
is taken, as half of an ear of corr, the
head is held high and to one or the
other side, so that the corn will gravi-
tate to a less sore place in the back of
the mouth, where it may be crushed
and then swallowed. Not infrequent-
ly, such mouthful will be dropped.
after the pain it causes is experienced.
Sometimes during this stage or, per-
haps, not until a day or two later,
there are evidences of soarness of the
feet, as shown by tendency to shift
the weight from onelto another, by a
quick tripping or jerking motion or by
an inclination to lie down more than
is usual. The first stage lasts one,
two or three days.
The Second Stage, or that of erup-
tion, is characterized by the occur
renee of vesicles, appearing as water
blisters, in and about the mouth, about
the feet and upon the teats and udder.
For the mouth eruptions, the favorite
seats are the following; the ends and
margin of the pad; the tip, borders
and top of the tongue; the front and
face of the pad; the inside of the up
per lip; the inside of the lower lip; the
borders of the lips; the muzzle; the
lower surface and the fraenum of the
tongue; the gum and the lower jaw
the inside of the cheeks, and the roo
of the mouth. Vesicles may appear
about the nostrils,
Vesicles or blisters appear upon the
feet between the hoofs, especially a
the front of the cleft; about the coron
ary band, about the base of the su
pernumerary hoofs and upon the heels
Vesicles upon the teats are more fre
quently seen about the orifice and ma!
almost cover the teats, and sometimes
occur on the skin of the udder. Thi
, condition causes much pain. The open
, ing of the teat may be closed by in
, hammation and swelling resulting iron
the eruption. Vesicles appear first a
small elevations of the superficial lay
ers of the mucous membrane or skin
, from to inch in diamater. The,
are of grayish color. Vesicles ma,
not become larger or they may in
crease in size TO an inch or more Il
diameter, or several may become con
fluent and loosen and raise up an are
7 several inches in diameter. Such ex
tremely large blisters occur upon tn
tongue and muzzle. The vesicles con
tain at first a clear, straw colore
serum which later becomes cloudy
The membrane covering them is thi
/ and it soon breaks when the vesicle
3 break, the loosened epithelial or ep
dermal layer remains for time a
tached at the borders, forming poch
ct, and, as it tears more, the loos
: shreads of membrane hang about th
: borders of the denuded area until thes
I become detached and fall away.
Vesicles usually appear first in th
> mouth aud almost simultaneously, c
: few hours or a day later, on the fe'
> and udder. Sometimes the vesiculi
= tlon is observed in but one Location
/. In cattle, IL is the mouth that it
n most likely to show LESSONS, viii
among sheep and hogs the lesior
may be confined to the region of Il
= feet. Vesicles may be few and sma
: or they may be large or numerou
|. The resulting discomfort and constit
tional disturbances are usually
proportion to the extent of the primal
n eruption. The affected areas are e
: ceedingly sensitive and painful.
# AS the vesicles form, the fever abat
II and when the vesicles rupture, d
A. temperature falls TO nearly normal
v quite to normal. The subseque
70 course of the disease is free from
yer, unless there is very extensive
cal inflammation. Vesicles ruptu